XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics.elections, alt.politics.trump   
   XPost: alt.politics.usa   
   From: NoOne@private.corp   
      
   On 10/24/2024 4:46 AM, NoBody wrote:   
   > On Fri, 18 Oct 2024 21:05:03 -0500, 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.   
   >   
   > Nothing like judges engaging in election interference.  If one ever   
   > needed evidence that the judicial process has been corrupted this is   
   > your example.   
      
   The only reason all this damning evidence against Trump is coming out   
   now is that Trump's lawyers delayed it until now.   
      
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