Jack Smith’s redacted document dump shows mostly stale Jan. 6 evidence
By
Ashley Oliver
October 18, 2024 12:22 pm
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Judge Tanya Chutkan unsealed hundreds of pages of special counsel Jack Smith‘s highly anticipated evidence against former President Donald Trump on Friday, but they contained few new revelations.
The four-volume document dump consisted of more than 1,800 pages of evidence, but most of it was redacted or previously known information.
One volume contained transcripts of interviews conducted by the defunct Jan. 6 Committee while another contained a compilation of Trump’s social media posts. A third volume included 20 pages of former Vice President Mike Pence’s book, in which Pence described how he insisted on certifying the 2020 election results in the face of Trump pressuring him to do otherwise.
The filing was the second part of a two-part behemoth motion that Smith submitted to the court to defend his charges against Trump in the wake of the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling on presidential immunity. A sealed version of Smith’s motion, which could contain new or more damning evidence, including testimony heard by the grand jury, is not visible to the public.
The lack of bombshells put forth by Smith came as a letdown to Trump’s critics, who were eager to elevate any newly released information about Trump that could paint him in a negative light less than three weeks before the presidential election.
Because of the Supreme Court’s ruling and other concerns about the case raised by Trump’s legal team, the trial has been postponed indefinitely. Smith’s massive drop of evidence, therefore, marked the only opportunity the special counsel had to showcase his evidence against Trump to the public before the election.
The first part of the motion, released on Oct. 2, was a 165-page argument by prosecutors that Trump’s conduct in the aftermath of the 2020 election was not subject to presidential immunity because it was unofficial conduct that was made in his capacity as a presidential candidate.
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