Former President Donald Trump railed against special counsel Jack Smith's unsealing of documents in his Jan. 6 case, calling him "deranged" and accusing the Biden "regime" of conspiring to "undermine and weaponize American democracy" while interfering in the upcoming election.
Prosecutors on Wednesday unsealed the court filing submitted by Smith's team after the Supreme Court's ruling to allow broad immunity for former presidents concerning actions they took while in office.
The filing, released a few days before the one-month mark until the Nov. 5 election, claims Trump "resorted to crimes" in contesting the 2020 election result.
Among the 165-page report's claims, Trump is quoted as allegedly saying, "So what?" when an aide told him that security efforts were being made to protect Vice President Mike Pence as protesters stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, CNN reported.
Trump, posting on Truth Social, called the report "falsehood-ridden" and "unconstitutional" and accused the administration of releasing it to draw attention away from Democrat vice presidential nominee Tim Walz's "disastrous debate performance" and "33 days before the Most Important Election in the History of our Country."
"Deranged Jack Smith, the hand-picked Prosecutor of the Harris-Biden DOJ, and Washington, D.C. based Radical Left Democrats, are HELL BENT on continuing to Weaponize the Justice Department in an attempt to cling to power," he claimed, adding he is "dominating" the election cycle and ahead in the polls, so Democrats are "freaking out."
The DOJ released its "hit job" because Democrats are "desperate to prop up their failing Candidate, Kamala Harris," Trump wrote in another post.
"This is egregious PROSECUTORIAL MISCONDUCT, and should not have been released right before the Election," he said.
The former president further claimed "they" rigged the 2020 election, not him, and said the DOJ is "supposed to do nothing that would taint or interfere with a case" 60 days before an election.
"They disobeyed their own rule in favor of complete and total election interference," Trump said. "I did nothing wrong, they did! The case is a scam, just like all of the others, including the documents case, which was dismissed!"
Trump also spoke out about the release in an interview with NewsNation on Wednesday, claiming the report about his documentation case was a "weaponization of the government" and "pure election interference," as The Hill reported.
"The people know it, I know it, everybody knows it," he said.
While much of the investigation into the Jan. 6 case has been released publicly, the new filing cites accounts offered by former Trump aides in an attempt to show him as an "increasingly desperate" president who had "used deceit to target every stage of the electoral process."
The indictment against Trump in the case claims that he had conspired to overturn the 2020 election by knowingly using false election fraud claims to certify the vote in favor of electing Joe Biden as president.
The latest filing was unveiled to show he can still face trial for his attempts to overturn Biden's win, The Washington Post reported.
Prosecutors argued that Trump took actions to benefit his campaign, not as part of his official capacity as president, with the filing being released Wednesday after a ruling by a federal judge, after legal fighting over whether to make the documentation public.
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