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Donald Trump condemned the recent public disclosure of his indictment by special counsel Jack Smith. The former President labeled it as “election interference” designed to weaken his campaign and support Kamala Harris’s presidential aspirations.
Trump argued that the timing, just weeks before the election, was politically motivated and intended to sway voters against him.
“This was a weaponization of government, and that’s why it was released 30 days before the election,” Trump said.
“It’s pure election interference to get an incompetent person like Kamala — she’s grossly incompetent, she’s more incompetent than Biden — to get these people elected,” Trump added.
Legal experts, including George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley and former federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy, echoed Trump’s sentiment, suggesting that the public disclosure of the allegations could be more damaging politically than an actual trial would be.
“So no, the prosecutor and judge cannot get the case to trial, as they so ardently hoped to do; but Smith has been given the best substitute he can hope for: A book-length recitation of the case against Trump, injected into public record and thus into the campaign less than five weeks before Election Day — and while people are already voting,” McCarthy wrote.
“In some ways, even though no conviction will result from it, Smith’s public submission is better than a trial,” McCarthy added.
“Trials are messy and unpredictable; prosecutors’ written descriptions of what they hope to prove are often compelling and damning. That is why, at a trial, the judge routinely instructs the jury that an indictment and proffers by a prosecutor are only allegations; they are not evidence, they are not subject to cross-examination, and they prove nothing. Here, by contrast, there will be no cautionary instructions. Smith’s allegations will be used by Democrats and repeated by the media as if they are established fact, the conclusions of a searching, exacting probe by a Justice Department special counsel.”
In his responses on social media, Trump insisted the indictment was a deliberate attempt by the Biden administration to manipulate the electoral process.
“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,” Trump wrote.
“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.”
“The people know it, I know it, everybody knows it,” Trump added.
