The Stunning Team Trump Details in Jack Smith’s Latest Jan. 6 Evidence
The judge in Donald Trump’s criminal 2020 election inference case released hundreds of pages of evidence Friday.Judge Tanya Chutkan ordered that the clerk of courts file all four volumes of special counsel Jack Smith’s redacted appendix Friday morning, one day after rejecting a request from Trump’s legal team to delay the unsealing until after the presidential election next month. Volume I of the filing contained several mostly unredacted interviews conducted by the House January 6 committee. One, with Trump’s valet, was previously redacted in a release from House Republicans. The valet recalled telling Trump that his televised speech had been cut short to show the unrest at the Capitol.Volume II contained a collection of tweets, the majority of which were from Trump’s personal account, not his official POTUS account. This included his call for followers to attend a “big protest” in Washington, D.C., noting that it “will be wild!”Volume III contained highlighted excerpts of Mike Pence’s book So Help Me God, detailing how Pence had tried to “encourage” Trump to accept the actual election results as his fraud cases fell apart. Pence reminded Trump that he’d taken “a dying political party and given it a new lease on life.”Volume IV of the filing contained several pieces of evidence that were already publicly available, such as Trump’s speech on the Ellipse that preceded the January 6 riot at the Capitol, in which he undermined the results of the election. It included Trump’s comments on January 6, broadcast on C-SPAN, urging MAGA rioters to “go home” while reaffirming that the election had been “stolen.” The volume also contained the special counsel’s report, which found that Trump’s former attorney Peter Navarro had violated the Hatch Act. Additionally, the filing includes several fundraising emails from the Trump campaign and budget and travel planning documents, which might financially connect Trump to the January 6 riot. While the promise of such a massive release brought many to believe they would find new information about Trump’s alleged illegal activities, much of the filings were redacted, with large sections appearing blank, not available for public viewing.But that didn’t stop Trump’s legal team from scrambling until the last minute to try and prevent the documents’ release.This story has been updated.
The judge in Donald Trump’s criminal 2020 election inference case released hundreds of pages of evidence Friday.
Judge Tanya Chutkan ordered that the clerk of courts file all four volumes of special counsel Jack Smith’s redacted appendix Friday morning, one day after rejecting a request from Trump’s legal team to delay the unsealing until after the presidential election next month.
Volume I of the filing contained several mostly unredacted interviews conducted by the House January 6 committee. One, with Trump’s valet, was previously redacted in a release from House Republicans. The valet recalled telling Trump that his televised speech had been cut short to show the unrest at the Capitol.
Volume II contained a collection of tweets, the majority of which were from Trump’s personal account, not his official POTUS account. This included his call for followers to attend a “big protest” in Washington, D.C., noting that it “will be wild!”
Volume III contained highlighted excerpts of Mike Pence’s book So Help Me God, detailing how Pence had tried to “encourage” Trump to accept the actual election results as his fraud cases fell apart. Pence reminded Trump that he’d taken “a dying political party and given it a new lease on life.”
Volume IV of the filing contained several pieces of evidence that were already publicly available, such as Trump’s speech on the Ellipse that preceded the January 6 riot at the Capitol, in which he undermined the results of the election.
It included Trump’s comments on January 6, broadcast on C-SPAN, urging MAGA rioters to “go home” while reaffirming that the election had been “stolen.” The volume also contained the special counsel’s report, which found that Trump’s former attorney Peter Navarro had violated the Hatch Act.
Additionally, the filing includes several fundraising emails from the Trump campaign and budget and travel planning documents, which might financially connect Trump to the January 6 riot.
While the promise of such a massive release brought many to believe they would find new information about Trump’s alleged illegal activities, much of the filings were redacted, with large sections appearing blank, not available for public viewing.
But that didn’t stop Trump’s legal team from scrambling until the last minute to try and prevent the documents’ release.
This story has been updated.
