XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics.elections, alt.politics.trump   
   XPost: alt.politics.usa   
   From: NoOne@private.corp   
      
   On 10/18/2024 8:05 PM, Ubiquitous wrote:   
   > WASHINGTON (AP) — The judge overseeing Donald Trump’s 2020 election   
   > interference case made public Friday a heavily redacted trove of documents   
   > that provide a small glimpse into 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 what allegations can proceed to trial following the Supreme   
   > Court opinion in July that conferred broad immunity on former presidents for   
   > official acts they take in office.   
   >   
   > The information that could be seen in the redacted version released Friday   
   > appeared to be material that for the most part had already been made public,   
   > including screenshots of Trump social media posts about the 2020 election and   
   > a transcript of the video statement he made on Jan. 6, 2021 in, which he told   
   > the rioters attacking the Capitol to go home, but added: “we love you”   
   and   
   > “you’re very special.”   
   >   
   > The overwhelming majority of the pages released Friday were whited-out. The   
   > redacted files are believed to include things like transcripts of grand jury   
   > testimony, which remain under wraps because of grand jury secrecy rules.   
   >   
   > Other information visible to the public includes passages from former Vice   
   > President Mike Pence’s book, excerpts of testimony provided by several   
   > witnesses to the House committee that investigated the Jan. 6 riot and a   
   > transcript of Trump’s phone call pressuring Georgia election officials to   
   > “find” enough votes to reverse his election loss in the state to   
   Democrat Joe   
   > Biden.   
   >   
   > Other documents include fundraising emails from Trump’s 2020 campaign and   
   > Pence’s letter telling Congress on Jan. 6 that he could not claim   
   “unilateral   
   > authority to determine which electoral votes should be counted and which   
   > should not.”   
   >   
   > The filing was submitted as a series of appendices to a 165-page brief   
   > unsealed this month in which prosecutors disclosed new evidence against Trump   
   > to support their argument that the former president is not entitled to   
   > immunity from prosecution.   
   >   
   > Trump’s lawyers objected to the unsealing of the filing so close to next   
   > month’s presidential election, but Chutkan on Thursday rejected their bid   
   to   
   > postpone the material from becoming public until after the election. She said   
   > it would be inappropriate to take the political calendar into account.   
   >   
   > --   
      
   Trump's lawyers before: delay delay delay   
   Trump's lawyers now: why would you wait until now?   
      
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