There are less than three weeks before what is arguably the most consequential U.S. presidential election in modern history, yet District of Columbia Judge Tanya Chutkan thought this was a perfect time to release troves of documents related to special counsel Jack Smith’s evidence against former President Donald Trump. The former president stands accused by the obsessed special prosecutor of illegally seeking to overturn the 2020 election.
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Background: Eye of the Beholder: Chutkan Unseals Jack Smith Evidence…to ‘Avoid’ Appearance of Election Interference
When CNN pundits are asking questions, you know it smells. Though the outlet is famous for their hatred for Trump, even their senior legal analyst Elie Honig is wondering, just what the heck is going on here?
CNN senior legal analyst Elie H onig on Friday said he is unaware of “any precedent” for Judge Tanya Chutkan releasing redacted documents of special counsel Jack Smith’s evidence against former President Donald Trump, given the November election is approaching.
Is it election interference? “It’s very much a Rorschach test,” Honig said. I sure as heck know what I’m reading from that test.
He argued that the matter is open to interpretation, which is damning enough considering that even the appearance of banana republic justice is problematic after all the abuses of the Justice Department since Biden-Harris came into power.
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Trump objected to publishing the materials so close to the election, but Chutkan argued it would be “election interference” not to release them. Honig, on “CNN News Central,” asserted whether the release constitutes interference is a matter of interpretation.
“I can’t think of any precedent where a court has released something … two weeks and change before our presidential election. Judge Chutkan does take that issue on in her ruling. She essentially says, ‘If I were to pause this, that would be out of the ordinary. And so I’m going to just conduct business in the normal course.’ It’s really just in the eye of the beholder, Alex,” Honig told host Alex Marquardt. “I think Donald Trump’s team says, ‘Why wouldn’t you just keep this under seal for 18 or 20 more days, not have to deal with the election?’”
Why not, indeed? This is hardly a pressing matter at the moment; conflict is raging in the Middle East, inflation has harmed ordinary Americans, millions of illegal aliens have streamed across our porous southern border, and we have a barely functioning commander-in-chief in the Oval.
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It’s not the first time Honig has raised the alarm.
The Justice Department flatly states in their manual:
Federal prosecutors and agents may never select the timing of any action, including investigative steps, criminal charges, or statements, for the purpose of affecting any election, or for the purpose of giving an advantage or disadvantage to any candidate or political party.
We are now 16 days out from the election. You can decide for yourself whether the DOJ is following their own guidelines. Judge Chutkan is obviously not part of the the DOJ—although the crusading Jack Smith most certainly is in his special prosecutor capacity—but as Honig points out, her decision is a “matter of interpretation.”
The former president’s lawyers didn’t mince words:
Trump’s attorneys objected to publishing any of the documents, arguing it amounts to “overt and inappropriate election interference.”
“There should be no further disclosures at this time of the so called ‘evidence’ that the Special Counsel’s Office has unlawfully cherry-picked and mischaracterized — during early voting in the 2024 Presidential election — in connection with an improper Presidential immunity filing that has no basis in criminal procedure or judicial precedent,” his attorneys wrote in an Oct. 10 filing.
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There’s only one way to stop this Biden-Harris complete bastardization of what the Justice Department is supposed to be—vote them the heck out of office and send them scurrying out of Washington D.C. back to Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, and Brentwood, California, where hopefully they’ll fade into the obscurity they so wholly deserve.
Vote as if your life depends on it.