Donald Trump Responds to Jack Smith’s New Court Filing

Former President Donald Trump responded Wednesday afternoon after U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan made public a lengthy filing from special counsel Jack Smith in his investigation into Trump’s alleged efforts to interfere with the transfer of power following the 2020 election.

Smith’s brief, filed last week but made public on Wednesday, aims to convince Chutkan, who is overseeing the federal election subversion case, that Trump’s alleged offenses are private rather than official acts and can, therefore, remain in the indictment.

“Although the defendant was the incumbent President during the charged conspiracies, his scheme was fundamentally a private one,” Smith’s brief read. “When the defendant lost the 2020 presidential election, he resorted to crimes to try to stay in office.”

Trump has pleaded not guilty to all charges and claimed the case is politically motivated against him.

Trump responded to the new filing on Wednesday afternoon on Truth Social, writing:

“The release of this falsehood-ridden, Unconstitutional, J6 brief immediately following Tim Walz‘s disastrous Debate performance, and 33 days before the Most Important Election in the History of our Country, is another obvious attempt by the Harris-Biden regime to undermine and Weaponize American Democracy, and INTERFERE IN THE 2024 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. Deranged Jack Smith, the hand picked Prosecutor of the Harris-Biden DOJ, and Washington, D.C. based Radical Left Democrats, are HELL BENT on continuing to Weaponize the Justice Department in an attempt to cling to power. ‘TRUMP’ is dominating the Election cycle, leading in the Polls, and the Radical Democrats throughout the Deep State are totally ‘freaking out.’ This entire case is a Partisan, Unconstitutional, Witch Hunt, that should be dismissed, entirely, just like the Florida case was dismissed!”

This is a developing news story and will be updated when more information is available.