Convicted felon former President Trump’s legal team squealed angrily in a motion filed in DC Circuit Judge Tanya Chutkan’s court on Monday that it would be “fundamentally unfair” if she allows Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith’s office be permitted to enter a “180 page hit piece” detailing all the evidence against him in the still-stalled post-2020 election coup attempt case.
The strategy reflected by the Motion would increase the irreparable harm caused by the Gag Order in this case. False, public allegations by the Special Counsel’s Office, presented through a document that has no basis in the traditional criminal justice process, will undoubtedly enter the dialogue around the election.
The Gag Order prevents President Trump from explaining in detail why the Office’s selective and biased account is inaccurate without risking contempt penalties. While the DC Circuit modified and addressed the Gag Order previously, the court was careful to note that ‘the general election is almost a year away, and will long postdate the trial in this case.’ Circumstances have changed drastically: President Trump is the leading candidate in the Presidential election, which is just weeks away. The Office cannot be permitted to issue a massive and misleading public statement that is not responsive to a defense motion, and risks adverse impacts to the integrity of these proceedings, simultaneously insisting on an unconstitutional prior restraint on President Trump’s ability to respond to their inaccurate assertions while he is campaigning.
Entitled cunts going to act entitled. Chutkan already told them, and she seemed very clear earlier this month, that “not concerned about the election schedule,” and the 2024 election “is not relevant here.” Yet here they are filing this shit anyway, evidently unable accept the reality she’s created.