Trump argues against disclosure of certain details in major Jack Smith brief laying out new evidence in election case [View all]

Source: CNN Politics

Published 3:19 PM EDT, Tue October 1, 2024


CNN — Former President Donald Trump is again claiming that special counsel Jack Smith is trying to influence the November presidential election by seeking to make new evidence and witness testimony public as voters start to go to the polls.

In a court filing Tuesday, the Republican White House nominee argued that more redactions are needed in a brief that Smith has filed under seal that will present the most comprehensive view yet of the special counsel’s case that Trump acted in criminally in trying to overturn the 2020 election.

The brief is aimed at convincing the trial judge in the case – and eventually, higher courts – that Smith’s case can survive under the Supreme Court’s recent ruling that said Trump had at least some presidential immunity in the prosecution.

The immunity filing is expected to be the fullest description of the case against Trump to date – a nearly 200-page legal brief that weaves the Justice Department’s sweeping grand jury investigation around the 2020 election into a narrative, akin to an opening statement at a trial. At stake in the current dispute over redacting the brief is how much the public will learn about what investigators found in the federal election subversion probe, particularly as a Trump win in November would likely end the prosecution.

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