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President Trump’s campaign gave a powerful response to U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan’s decision to release more documents from Special Counsel Jack Smith’s January 6th investigation with just 18 days to go until the 2024 presidential election.
Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung told Fox News Digital, “Radical Democrats are hell-bent on interfering in the presidential election on behalf of Lyin’ Kamala Harris.”
He continued, “With just over two weeks until Election Day, President Trump is dominating this race and Crazed Liberals throughout the Deep State are freaking out.”
Cheung also told the outlet, “As mandated by the Supreme Court’s historic decision on Presidential Immunity and other vital jurisprudence, this entire case is a sham and a partisan, Unconstitutional Witch Hunt that should be dismissed entirely — as should ALL of the remaining Democrat hoaxes.”
As reported by RSBN, Chutkan dismissed the Trump legal team’s argument that releasing the documents so close to the election would give the appearance of election interference.
In her order to release the documents, Chutkan wrote, “There is undoubtedly a public interest in courts not inserting themselves into elections, or appearing to do so.”
She continued, “But litigation’s incidental effects on politics are not the same as a court’s intentional interference with them … If the court withheld information that the public otherwise had a right to access solely because of the potential political consequences of releasing it, that withholding could itself constitute—or appear to be— election interference.”
Chutkan claimed that the court would continue to keep political considerations out of its decisions, despite requests from the defense.
Article III Project’s Mike Davis slammed Chutkan’s decision in a post on X, stating, “Translation: Biden-Kamala’s Jack Smith and DC Obama Judge Tanya Chutkan are making their last, desperate, unprecedented, illegal attempt to interfere in the election. Truly pathetic. Impeachable,” Davis wrote.
Following the Supreme Court’s ruling on presidential immunity, Smith brought a superseding indictment against Trump in an attempt to comply with the high court’s decision. Trump has pleaded not guilty to the charges and maintains that he did nothing wrong.
