REPORT: Trump campaign reacts after judge releases Jack Smith court docs just weeks before the election

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From CBS News: The judge overseeing President Donald Trump’s 2020 election interference case released more evidence collected by special counsel Jack Smith on Friday, unveiling an enormous batch of heavily redacted records.

The 1,889 pages of material, which Trump’s legal team had sought to keep under wraps, constitute four volumes of an appendix that Smith’s prosecutors filed alongside a motion over presidential immunity that was unveiled earlier this month. U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan, who is overseeing the case, ordered the unsealing of the redacted appendix last week, but delayed the release to give Trump time to contest her decision.

The new documents include transcripts of court hearings, interviews and speeches related to the case, as well as additional source material. Smith had indicated that much of the appendix contains sensitive information that should stay hidden from the public, and the released version contains hundreds of pages that remain under seal. That evidence, subject to a protective order issued at the start of the case last year, likely includes transcripts of testimony before a grand jury and FBI interviews.

But many of the documents include publicly available information, including voting tabulations and tweets from Trump and others connected to the case. Prosecutors also included Trump’s speech near the White House on Jan. 6, 2021, in which he told a crowd of supporters that he won the election and said “we’re going to the Capitol.”

TRUMP TEAM RESPONDS
From Fox News: “Radical Democrats are hell-bent on interfering in the presidential election on behalf of Lyin’ Kamala Harris,” Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung told Fox News Digital. “With just over two weeks until Election Day, President Trump is dominating this race and Crazed Liberals throughout the Deep State are freaking out.”

Cheung added: “As mandated by the Supreme Court’s historic decision on Presidential Immunity and other vital jurisprudence, this entire case is a sham and a partisan, Unconstitutional Witch Hunt that should be dismissed entirely — as should ALL of the remaining Democrat hoaxes.”

RealClear Investigations journalist Julie Kelly explained:

Last night, in her typical hubristic and condescending fashion, Tanya Chutkan authorized unsealing of Jack Smith’s “appendix” to his cherry picked immunity motion in J6 case.

Chutkan claims that by NOT unsealing the document, she could be accused of interfering in the election.

This of course is her laughable response to Donald Trump’s argument that Smith’s one-sided filings represent election interference since Trump’s lawyers are under the gun to fully respond to Smith’s massive 165-page motion (4x normal page length also approved by Chutkan) AND the lengthy exhibit appendix which is expected to contain grand jury material and FBI 302s.

Again—Chutkan was upbraided by Chief Justice John Roberts for her reckless, hasty handling of this matter. Not only is she unfazed by that humiliation, she’s emboldened.

Appendix will be docketed today

Meanwhile, Democrats are pouncing on the newly-released documents, claiming this proves Trump is guilty of criminal conduct.

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