With a little more than a month to go before the election, Trump-hating U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan has made public Trump-hating Special Counsel Jack Smith’s 165-page justification for depriving former President Donald Trump of his First Amendment rights.
As October surprises go, Wednesday’s redacted release wasn’t much of a surprise. Smith’s “brief” asserting that Trump as president was not entitled to immunity and basic constitutional rights was “highly anticipated” by the vultures in corporate media and is, as expected, loaded with dubious legal claims. But making it public on Oct. 2, as absentee ballots go out across the country, was designed for maximum political damage to a Republican presidential candidate who has survived everything — including a bullet — that the left has fired at him.
As expected, the accomplice media gobbled up Smith’s motion for immunity determinations, dutifully pushing the Democratic National Committee’s talking points that Trump is a threat to democracy. By releasing the political prosecution docs now, Democrats and their friends in corporate media will have the next few weeks to further paint their anti-democracy narrative that the Republican Party’s presidential candidate should be in prison, not on the ballot.
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The incendiary headlines were predictable.
“11 damning details in Jack Smith’s new brief in the Trump election case,” Politico screamed.
“Jack Smith’s Stunning New Evidence Against Trump Revealed,” the far left New Republic proclaimed, despite the fact that much of the fodder in the prosecutor’s argument to keep his ailing case alive
