Trump left furious over release of election case documents that accuse him of 'resorting to crime"

Donald Trump has been left furious over the release of a 165-page motion in which he is accused of “resorting to crimes” over his 2020 US Presidential election loss

Donald Trump has been left furious over the release of a 165-page legal motion in which he is accused of “resorting to crimes” over his 2020 election loss.

US Government prosecutor Special Counsel Jack Smith has laid out a sprawling timeline of how the former president attempted to claw his way back into power following his defeat to Joe Biden. After learning of the motion filed in Washington DC on Wednesday night, Trump took to his Truth Social site to vent his anger. He then took to pro-MAGA new channel NewsNation to launch into a further rant before bragging how a second case - over classified documents - had been dropped.

In his first blast against Smith’s motion, Trump wrote: “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 Weaponise American Democracy, and INTERFERE IN THE 2024 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.”

“Deranged Jack Smith, the hand-picked Prosecutor of the Harris-Biden DOJ, and Washington, DC based Radical Left Democrats, are HELL BENT on continuing to Weaponise the Justice Department in an attempt to cling to power.” The property mogul then claimed he was “dominating the Election cycle” and “leading in the Polls,” claiming the “Radical Democrats throughout the Deep State are totally ‘freaking out'.”

He blasted: “This entire case is a Partisan, Unconstitutional Witch Hunt that should be dismissed entirely, just like the Florida case was dismissed!” Trump went on to accuse the Democratic party of being “guilty of the Worst Election Interference in American History” and of “Weaponising the Justice Department against me because they know I am WINNING, and they are desperate to prop up their failing Candidate, Kamala Harris.”

He then raged against the Department of Justice and claimed in another post, “I didn’t rig the 2020 Election, they did!” The brief's purpose is to convince US District Judge Tanya Chutkan, who is handling the January 6 case, that the offences charged in the indictment are private rather than official acts and can, therefore, remain part of the indictment as the case moves forward. Those include efforts to persuade former Vice President Mike Pence to refuse to certify the counting of the electoral votes on the afternoon of January 6, 2021.

“Although the defendant was the incumbent President during the charged conspiracies, his scheme was fundamentally a private one,” Smith's team said. “Working with a team of private co-conspirators, the defendant acted as a candidate when he pursued multiple criminal means to disrupt, through fraud and deceit, the government function by which votes are collected and counted - a function in which the defendant, as President, had no official role. When the defendant lost the 2020 presidential election, he resorted to crimes to try to stay in office."

It was submitted by Smith's team following a Supreme Court opinion that provided broad immunity for former presidents and narrowed the scope of the prosecution. Only last month, Trump pleaded not guilty after the long-delayed case that accused him of trying to overturn the 2020 election returned to court. The original hearing was delayed after the Republican-led US Supreme Court ruled a US leader had broad immunity from prosecution for their official acts.

After its ruling, the high court sent Trump's case back to Washington DC District Judge Tanya Chutkan to decide what allegations and evidence might qualify for exceptions or be prosecutable as private acts. In response, Smith filed a revised indictment on the same four election interference charges. It removed evidence the Supreme Court deemed inadmissible and focused on what Trump, who was not in court and whose plea was entered by his lawyers, did in his capacity as a candidate.

In July, America's highest justices ruled that former presidents enjoy absolute immunity for exercising their core constitutional duties and are presumptively immune from prosecution for all other official acts. The case is one of two federal prosecutions against Trump.

The other, charging him with illegally hoarding classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, was dismissed in July by Trump-apppointted US District Judge Aileen Cannon. She said Smith's appointment as special counsel was unlawful.
The Special Counsel's team has appealed that ruling.