Former President Donald Trump slammed prosecutor Jack Smith as a 'deranged lunatic' after the judge in his election interference case released more evidence of the allegations against him.
- A judge published more evidence collected in the 2020 election fraud case
- Donald Trump blasted the decision, saying it amounted to election interference
The 1900-page dossier included how the then president drank soda while watching a mob of his supporters ransack the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 as well as descriptions of his conversations with family members and aides.
Trump said the decision to release the information now, barely two weeks before polling day, amounted to election interference.
'He's a deranged lunatic,' Trump told reporters after landing in Detroit for a campaign event, and he pointed out that Smith had failed to prosecute him over documents found at Mar-a-Lago, after the case was tossed by a judge in July.
'There is no case. I did absolutely nothing wrong. He's deranged person.
'You know what it is? It's called election hunting. That's all they are doing. Election hunting.
'The weaponization of the justice system and the people are wise to it. Nothing was released. There's nothing released.'
Many of the published pages were whited out and marked 'sealed,' but they also included material referenced in a sweeping court filing from earlier this month in which the special counsel argued that Trump was not immune from allegations in the case.
The unsealed filings include details of interviews conducted by the congressional investigation into the Jan. 6 violence.
Names of witnesses were blacked out.
Trump has pleaded not guilty to four criminal charges accusing him of conspiracy to obstruct the process to certify the results of his 2020 defeat to Democratic candidate Joe Biden.
His lawyers had argued that none of the material should be released ahead of the Nov. 5 election and successfully delayed its publication by a week.
Special Counsel Jack Smith accuses Trump of multiple counts of conspiracy to obstruct the process to count certify the results of his 2020 defeat to Democratic candidate Joe Biden. Trump has pleased guilty to all the charges
The 1900 pages of documents include blank pages marked 'sealed'. The names of witness have also been redacted
The released evidence offers an insight into how Smith is prosecuting Trump.
The pages include a transcript from the House January 6 committee's interview of a White House staffer.
It details how the employee told Trump that TV networks had dropped his speech because of 'rioting down at the Capitol.
'And he was, like, What do you mean? I said, It's, like, they're rioting there at the Capitol,' said the employee.
'And he was, like, Oh, really? And then he was like, All right, let’s go see.
'I'm taking off his outer coat that he's wearing right now, and I get the TV, like, ready for him, and hand him over the remote, and he starts watching it.
And I stepped out to get him a Diet Coke, come back in, and that’s pretty much it for me as he's watching it and, like, seeing it for himself.'
The release infuriated Trump aides.
Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung said: 'Radical Democrats are hell-bent on interfering in the presidential election on behalf of Lyin’ Kamala Harris. With just over two weeks until Election Day, President Trump is dominating this race and Crazed Liberals throughout the Deep State are freaking out.
'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.'
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