Lawyers for former President Donald Trump want access to internal government records and private communications related to the federal case against him over the 2020 election, arguing in a lengthy court filing Monday that the information would shed light on Trump’s “good faith” efforts to overturn his loss to Joe Biden. .
“The allegations in this case reflect little more than partisan advocacy designed to sabotage President Trump’s prominent campaign for President in 2024[ial] Election,” attorneys John Lauro and Todd Blanche wrote about special counsel Jack Smith’s case.
“In accordance with that improper and illegal goal, the Office of Special Counsel has chosen to rely on the opinions of witnesses who align with the political views of the Biden Administration, and treat those biased opinions as objective and indisputable truth about the integrity of the 2020 election and the events of January 6, 2021.”
Lawyers for Donald Trump requested internal government records and personal communications related to his case on January 6. AFP via Getty Images They argued in a lengthy court filing on Monday that the information would shed light on the former president’s “good faith” efforts to examine the results of the 2020 election. James Keivom
The 34-page motion to compel discovery requests communications “by members, relatives, or associates of the Biden Administration” and evidence related to Pence’s retention of classified documents after leaving office.
The former vice president voluntarily turned over at least a dozen sensitive records to the Justice Department in January, with one other document found during an FBI search the following month.
Federal prosecutors never brought charges against Pence, but months later Smith’s office slapped Trump with a 37-count indictment for allegedly storing national security documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate.
“The allegations in this case reflect little more than partisan advocacy designed to sabotage President Trump’s prominent campaign for President in 2024[ial] Election,” wrote the lawyer. AFP via Getty Images
In August, Smith also indicted Trump, 77, on four counts related to his attempts to stay in power in the wake of his loss, with the special counsel’s team impeaching Pence for any knowledge he had of efforts to throw out the election count.
“The potential criminal charges facing Vice President Pence gave him an incentive to side with authorities by providing information consistent with the Biden Administration’s preferred and false narrative regarding this case,” Lauro and Blanche said of the chain of events.
While stating Trump’s belief that the election was “rigged” will be determined at trial, the attorneys claim Smith has attempted in advance “to suppress and withhold information from President Trump that supports this defense.”
The 34-page motion to compel discovery seeks evidence related to former Vice President Mike Pence’s retention of classified documents after leaving office. AP
Lauro and Blanche also claimed that Trump could not be “responsible” for the January 6 Capitol riots, since Smith’s office refused to disclose critical information about security measures or the presence of “undercover informants who infiltrated the public that day.”
Prosecutors continue to ignore foreign influence campaigns by Russia, China and Iran and trust the biased assessments of US intelligence officials while ignoring cyberattacks “that target critical infrastructure and election facilities,” they said.
The filing was accompanied by hundreds of pages of supporting documentation, including US intelligence assessments of the security of the 2016 and 2020 elections as well as records and court orders about suspected Russian hacking that may have affected government systems.
Lauro and Blanche also claimed that Trump could not be “responsible” for the January 6 Capitol riots, because Smith’s office refused to disclose critical information about security measures. AP
Other letters, from then-Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe and Intelligence Community Analytical Ombudsman Barry Zulauf also allegedly showed that the US assessment of 2020 foreign election interference had been “politicized.”
Although the evidence was not admissible at trial, Trump’s lawyers also demanded information about an undercover federal informant at the US Capitol complex on January 6, citing “violence arising from the failure of such controls and/or a botched sting operation. rather than any order from the President Trump.”
The final exhibit in court filings from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court’s April 2022 opinion revealed “significant violations” for questioning under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) “including some related to the January 6, 2021 breach of the US Capitol.”
“For the reasons already discussed, evidence that agents or analysts interrogated the FISA database because they suspected that the events of January 6 were influenced by foreign actors is favorable to President Trump because it shows that, prior to this case, the government did not believe he was ‘responsible’ for the incident on that day,” said Lauro and Blanche.
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A representative for Smith’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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