Look at the calendar and brace yourself; we are a month away from Election Day. If the ride felt bumpy so far, the next month promises heavier turbulence.
Losing campaigns save their most desperate moves for the last month before Election Day, trying to deploy an October surprise that will so shock their opponents’ supporters that they will suddenly switch sides.
But no one with a calendar is surprised by the release of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s failed filing on former President Donald Trump, unsealed Wednesday by U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan.
Yawn.
The purpose of the filing is to ask the court to declare that Trump does not have presidential immunity for his actions on and related to Jan. 6. The case has been delayed numerous times, but, again, note the date. For this case to matter, the public must read it now. It won’t matter after the election. And that is the tell.
Like the other weaponized court cases against Trump, it is not about justice, it is about bringing down a political foe.
We see you, Mr. Smith. Like a toddler playing peekaboo, you are not fooling the grown-ups with your nit-picky, 165-page, partially redacted recounting of 2020.
The filing alleges that Trump “made myriad false claims regarding fraud in the presidential election,” and it lists 19 claims Trump reportedly made, including the following: illegal drop boxes were used in Wisconsin; there was an “unexplained … discrepancy” between the number of mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania
