Jack Smith Moves To Dismiss 1/6 Charges Against Trump
Because of the DOJ policy that a sitting president can’t be prosecuted, Special Counsel Jack Smith has moved to dismiss the case against Trump.
Because of the DOJ policy that a sitting president can’t be prosecuted, Special Counsel Jack Smith has moved to dismiss the case against Trump.
Donald Trump bragged that since the Supreme Court has given presidents immunity, if he wins he will fire Jack Smith in two seconds.
Judge Chutkan ruled against Trump’s motion for a delay and ordered that a redacted version of Jack Smith’s 1/6 evidence against Trump will be released tomorrow.
Trump’s lawyers have asked Judge Chutkan to delay the release of Jack Smith’s 1/6 evidence against Trump after the election.
Instead of disputing the facts in Jack Smith’s filing, the Donald Trump campaign is screaming about witch hunts.
In the redacted document, Special Counsel Jack Smith laid out a devastating case against Donald Trump for using lies to attempt to overturn the 2020 election.
Judge Chutkan ruled that Special Counsel Jack Smith can submit 180 pages of evidence of Trump’s alleged 1/6 crimes to the court before the election.
Over the final months of the presidential campaign, the Trump 1/6 case will be full of filings, and any of those filings could contain new damaging evidence against the ex-president.
Judge Chutkan released her scheduling order on the federal Trump 1/6 trial and the case is going to be front and center through the rest of the election.
A late-night joint status report showed that Donald Trump is trying to delay his federal 1/6 trial until the Spring-Fall of 2025, but Special Counsel Jack Smith has other ideas.
Donald Trump came apart and claimed that the Supreme Court had already given him immunity in response to Jack Smith’s re-filing the 1/6 indictment.
Special Counsel Jack Smith revised his indictment of former President Trump to comply with the conservative Supreme Court majority’s ruling on presidential immunity.
Legal experts are reacting to Judge Aileen Cannon’s dismissal of the classified documents case against Trump by calling her ruling insane and saying that it will be overturned on appeal.
Special Counsel Jack Smith has tried again to get Trump to stop endangering the lives of law enforcement officers.
Aileen Cannon became the first judge in a Trump case to reject a gag order request, and her ruling could result in her being booted off the classified documents case.
Special Counsel Jack Smith is requesting that Trump be prohibited from making comments about law enforcement agents in the classified documents case.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) has listed her demands of Speaker Mike Johnson for her to drop her motion to vacate, which include defunding Jack Smith.
Newly unsealed prosecution exhibits reveal that a former Trump White House aide, who had daily access to the now ex-president and the Oval Office, flipped and cooperated with the FBI.
Trump is in a panic and accusing Special Counsel Jack Smith of intimidating Judge Aileen Cannon. He appears worried that Cannon may be tossed off the classified documents case.
Judge Aileen Cannon denied Trump’s motion to drop criminal charges based on the Presidential Records Act but also refused to rule on jury instructions.
In a Sunday afternoon meltdown, Donald Trump demanded that Jack Smith stop his prosecution because the election is going on.
The DOJ said at the latest hearing on the Trump classified documents case that they have no limitation that would prevent them from trying Trump during the election.
In a filing to the Supreme Court, Special Counsel Jack Smith argued that a stay should be denied and that Trump’s immunity claim is a threat to democracy.
Trump appealed to the Supreme Court and he is asking the highest court in the land to delay Jack Smith’s 1/6 case against him.
Jack Smith may have set the stage for getting Aileen Cannon off of the Trump classified documents case in a new court filing.Â
Trump was trying to use the Supreme Court hearing to boost his campaign, but instead he gave Jack Smith more evidence.
A federal appeals court gutted Trump’s defense by ruling that he is a private citizen and is not immune from 1/6 prosecution.
Jack Smith took on Trump’s lies and laid out the timeline while concluding that Trump’s legal problems are his own making in a new court filing.
As Biden responds to the deaths of U.S. service members in the Middle East, Trump is melting down and attacking all of the prosecutors who are prosecuting him.
According to a new court filing in the classified documents case against Trump only a few thousand people were screened before they entered Mar-a-Lago.
An appeals court ruled that Special Counsel Jack Smith can have access to Donald Trump’s private Twitter communications.
Special Counsel Jack Smith has details from Trump’s own aides about the former presidential refusal to stop the 1/6 attack.
In a new motion, Jack Smith moved to exclude Trump’s claims that the criminal trial is election interference and made it clear that he has evidence from the former president’s own lawyers and members of Congress.
Trump is freaking out on Christmas Eve and demanding criminal immunity for his alleged crimes against the United States and attempted coup.
A Supreme Court that is struggling with a loss of credibility made the decision to not disclose what the vote was to reject Jack Smith’s request for a ruling on Trump’s immunity claim.
Legal experts mostly expected the Supreme Court to turn down Jack Smith’s request for fast-track arguments on Trump’s immunity claims, but Trump may not get the long delay that he is seeking.
Former 1/6 investigator Denver Riggleman said that Trump should be very worried that Special Counsel Jack Smith has recovered the former president’s phone data.
The 1/6 Committee pointed out that the White House and Trump call logs were empty on 1/6, but Special Counsel Jack Smith has Trump’s phone data.
Trump and his lawyers have been claiming that surviving impeachment gives Trump immunity from further prosecution, so Jack Smith has asked the Supreme Court to hear the claim and make a decision.
In a new court filing in the 1/6 criminal case, Special Counsel Jack Smith has more than a decade of statements made by Donald Trump opposing the peaceful transfer of power.
Rep. Clay Higgins warned Special Counsel Jack Smith that “his days are numbered.”
Special Counsel Jack Smith has tons of potential witnesses in Mar-a-Lago employees who saw and heard potentially incriminating evidence against Donald Trump.
Special Counsel Jack Smith responded to Trump’s stall tactics in a new court filing, and he pulled no punches on the former president.
Special Counsel Jack Smith used Trump’s recent post trying to intimidate Mark Meadows to argue for the administrative stay on the gag order to be lifted.
Special Counsel Jack Smith gave Mark Meadows immunity and the details that the former White House Chief of Staff can provide put Trump potentially closer to federal prison.
Trump’s spokesperson responded to the new gag order issued against the former president by blaming President Biden and claiming that a knife has been stuck in the heart of democracy.
Judge Chutkan has taken away one of Trump’s main PR strategies by stopping him from smearing court officials, Jack Smith, and witnesses.
Trump and his lawyers are trying to subpoena ‘missing’ 1/6 Committee evidence. The problem is that the 1/6 Committee saved all of the evidence allowable under House rules.
Special Counsel Jack Smith has filed a request to protect the jurors in the former president’s 1/6 trial from Trump’s attacks.
Special Counsel Jack Smith has evidence that Trump discussed sensitive information about US nuclear subs with a foreign national who then shared the info with dozens of other people.
Donald Trump’s lawyers tried to get the former president’s 1/6 indictment dismissed by claiming that Trump has absolute immunity.
A microcosm of the mess that House Republicans have created was on display on Sunday when Rep. Jim Jordan said that the defunding of Jack Smith should be part of any CR to keep the government open.
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) said that Trump’s media interviews are music to the ears of prosecutors like Jack Smith and Fani Willis who are gathering evidence against him.
Special Counsel Jack Smith has requested a gag order be placed on Trump to stop him from prejudicing the jury and undermining the 1/6 case against him.
In an interview with Megyn Kelly, Trump said that he had a right to both have and take classified and unclassified documents.
House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R-OH) is now accusing federal prosecutors of trying to pressure Trump lawyers, and is playing a dangerous game with Special Counsel Jack Smith.
Special Counsel Jack Smith told Judge Chutkan that Trump is trying to prejudice the jury pool for his Washington, DC trial.
The former party of law and order is launching a push to defund prosecutors Fani Willis in Georgia and Special Counsel Jack Smith.
Trump didn’t get his asked for delay until 2026. The former president didn’t get his federal 1/6 trial delayed until after the 2024 election. Instead, Trump will be on trial on March 4, 2024.
Trump is claiming that testimony from his own employees that he tried to have the Mar-a-Lago security footage deleted is not true as he is basically claiming that his employees are lying while blaming Jack Smith.
Trump Employee 4 who is a key witness in the classified documents case recanted his previous false testimony after Trump’s effort to destroy video surveillance footage after he dumped a Trump paid for attorney and got a new lawyer.
The Special Counsel has responded to Trump’s claim that he needs until 2026 before his 1/6 trial can start by calling out exaggerations from Trump’s lawyers.
Rudy Giuliani is drowning in legal debt and when he asked Trump for help, the former president said no. This decision could cost Trump if Giuliani flips.
Special Counsel Jack Smith won a bruising battle with Twitter that resulted in his investigation obtaining detailed data from Trump’s Twitter account.
Prosecutors did their homework on Trump’s 1/6 co-conspirators who are reportedly already turning on each other and trying to get shift the blame for the coup plot.
Trump was asked by reporters while campaigning in Iowa if he intended to overturn the 2020 election, and his answer was short, off the cuff and potentially damning.
Special Counsel Jack Smith has filed a suggested trial date of January 2, 2024 for Trump’s 1/6 trial, which means that Trump could be a convicted felon by Super Tuesday on March 5.
Donald Trump lost it when he found out that Special Counsel Jack Smith got a warrant for his Twitter account as part of the criminal investigation.
Newly unsealed court documents reveal that Elon Musk wanted to disclose Jack Smith’s search warrant for Trump’s Twitter account, and Musk’s refusal to comply with the warrant resulted in a $350,000 fine.
The 1/6 indictment wasn’t the end of Trump’s problems at the federal level. Special Counsel Jack Smith continues to investigate Trump’s super PAC and fundraising.
Jack Smith saw what Trump was trying to do with the protective order and called out the former president for attempting to try the 1/6 case in the media.
Former president Trump is falsely accusing Special Counsel Jack Smith and the judge in the DC case of conspiring against him.
Special Counsel Jack Smith is seeking a protective order that would limit what Trump can say and how he can view discovery materials related to his 1/6 case.
Former White House counsel John Dean said that Special Counsel Jack Smith is showing that he will have a low tolerance for Donald Trump’s games.
Donald Trump sounds scared, and his campaign’s response to Jack Smith alerting the court to the former president’s online threat in violation of the conditions of his release reeks of fear.
Within a few hours, Special Counsel Jack Smith had reported Donald Trump’s threat posted on social media to the court.
The United States came very close to having the military used against the people following the attempted election coup, thanks to Donald Trump and his co-conspirators.
There is a reason why only Trump was indicted on Tuesday. Special Counsel Jack Smith has opened the door for any or all of Trump’s six co-conspirators to testify against him.
Trump claimed that he can’t be indicted for 1/6 because the Senate already tried him, as the former president is bordering on incoherence while trying to spin a potential criminal 1/6 indictment.
 Frank Figliuzzi pointed out that Special Counsel Jack Smith clearly has multiple people employees or others close to Trump cooperating with the DOJ.
Special Counsel Jack Smith filed three new felony charges against Donald Trump in the classified documents case, including an allegation that Trump attempted to delete the Mar-a-Lago security footage.
Trump’s lawyers have reportedly been told that a criminal indictment could be coming at any moment today for the former president’s plot to overturn the 2020 election.
Rudy Giuliani had his old pal Bernie Kerik working for him on the Trump coup plot, and now Kerik has turned over thousands of pages of documents to Jack Smith.
Former Solicitor General Neal Katyal expressed that belief that it is likely Trump will be federally indicted in the 1/6 investigation this week.
The worst case scenario for the Republican Party was a classified documents trial date that was after the presidential primary, but before the general election, which is what Judge Aileen Cannon did.
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) that Special Counsel Jack Smith might charge Trump with the crime of depriving Americans of their votes.
Trump’s Fox News Iowa town hall featured Sean Hannity guiding Trump through all of his talking points and at times making points for him as the event spotlighted questions about Trump’s ability to be president.
The top election administrator in Wisconsin has been interviewed by Jack Smith and federal prosecutors about Trump’s effort to overturn the 2020 election.
According to witnesses who have appeared before the 1/6 grand jury, federal prosecutors are investigating Trump’s planning to overturn the election before Election Day.
Former president Donald Trump announced that he is a target of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s federal criminal investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election he lost. What are the likely charges and what might the ramifications be?
Speaker Kevin McCarthy tried to sell the idea that Trump being indicted for 1/6 was a Biden political operation then claimed that the American people are tired of it.
Judge Aileen Cannon told both sides in the Trump classified documents case to be ready to discuss classification issues, the trial date, and Trump’s request for a delay tomorrow.
Special Counsel Jack Smith is investigating Trump’s big lie fundraising, and according to Chris Christie, Trump told him that he knew he was losing.
Trump doesn’t understand how special counsels work, because he is trying to get Jack Smith to stop investigating him, and investigate President Biden instead.
Special Counsel Jack Smith has brought forward dozens of witnesses as he is specifically investigating Donald Trump’s conduct from the period after Election Day 2020 through 1/6/2021.;
In 2020, Trump tried to make Sleepy Joe his nickname for Biden, but the former president has shifted and now thinks Biden is the mastermind behind his Indictment.
Special Counsel Jack Smith is reportedly investigating whether Trump’s lawyers broke any laws while trying to overturn the 2020 election.
Abby Grossberg has settled her lawsuit against Fox News, but her lawyer also revealed that she is cooperating with Jack Smith’s investigation into Trump’s plot to overturn the 2020 election.
Special Counsel Jack Smith is reportedly ready to indict Rudy Giuliani and other Trump lawyers for alleged crimes.
Federal prosecutors are reportedly considering filing another 30-45 criminal charges against Donald Trump that include evidence that the DOJ hasn’t acknowledged yet, including more Trump tapes.