Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump. , Photo Credit: AP
the judge is watching Donald Trump’s 2020 election interference case A heavily redacted list of documents was made public on Friday, providing a small glimpse of the evidence prosecutors will present if the case ever goes to trial.
The nearly 1,900 pages of documents collected by special counsel Jack Smith’s team were initially filed under seal to help U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan decide which charges to pursue following the Supreme Court opinion in July. can be prosecuted, with former presidents granted broad immunity for official acts. Take it to the office.
The information that can be seen in the redacted version released Friday appears to be material that for the most part had already been made public, including screenshots of Trump’s social media posts about the 2020 election and his January 6 A transcript of the video statement given was included. , in 2021, in which he told rioters who attacked the Capitol to go home, but also said: “We love you” and “You are very special.”
Most of the pages released on Friday had been deleted. The redacted files are believed to include things such as transcripts of grand jury testimony, which remain secret due to grand jury secrecy rules.
Other information visible to the public included excerpts from former Vice President Mike Pence’s book, excerpts from testimony provided by multiple witnesses to the House committee investigating the January 6 riot, and pressure on Georgia election officials to “find” enough The insert includes a transcript of Trump’s phone call. The state voted to overturn his election defeat to Democrat Joe Biden.
Other documents include fundraising emails from Trump’s 2020 campaign and a Jan. 6 letter from Pence telling Congress that he “cannot claim the unilateral authority to determine which electoral votes should be counted and which should not be counted.” Not from.”
The filing was presented this month as a series of appendices to a 165-page brief in which prosecutors disclosed new evidence against Trump to support their argument that the former president is not entitled to immunity from prosecution. Are.
Trump’s lawyers objected to opening the filing so close to next month’s presidential election, but Chutkan on Thursday rejected their bid to postpone making the materials public until after the election. He said it would be unfair to take into account the political calendar.
published – October 19, 2024 03:51 am IST