In a motion that will likely be repeated in the various state and federal criminal cases Donald Trump faces, Special Counsel Jack Smith filed a motion with the DC federal court asserting Trump’s defense team should not be allowed to make arguments citing irrelevant or fictional claims.
Among the claims Smith wants barred from Trump’s defense: the assertion that the prosecution is selective and vindictive, a claim that, as well as being false, does not contradict the facts to be presented and may adversely influence the jury; potential outcomes from a guilty or not guilty verdict in the trial, including political campaigns and potential civil unrest; and how federal and local agencies dealt with the Republican-led domestic terrorist attack on Congress January 6th (“[T]he defendant cannot argue that law enforcement should have prevented the violence he caused and obstruction he intended,” Smith writes.).