Trump vents about Jack Smith's latest move: 'Wants to take away my right of free speech'
Donald Trump uncorked an early morning rant Thursday against the latest court filing by special counsel Jack Smith in the election subversion case.
The special counsel's team filed a motion seeking to block Trump's lawyers from making partisan political arguments and referring to conspiracy theories during the trial, and the former president complained that deprived him of his First Amendment rights.
"Crooked Joe Biden’s Prosecutorial Thug, Deranged Jack Smith, who is fighting viciously to damage his corrupt bosses Political Opponent, ME, much as they do in Third World Countries, wants to take away my right of Free Speech," Trump posted.
Judges are routinely asked to prohibit some evidence, which may be excluded if it's found to be irrelevant, unfairly prejudicial, confusing or a waste of time, among other reasons, and Smith's motion argues that allowing Trump to claim he was selectively or vindictively prosecuted would "improperly inject politics into the trial."
"He doesn’t want me to speak about the Rigged and Stollen [sic] Presidential Election of 2020, where the Evidence is MASSIVE & CONCLUSIVE, or Nancy Pelosi’s turning down 10,000 troops for January 6th, which would have quickly ended any problems, or why and how the Unselect Committee of Political Thugs & Misfits illegally deleted and destroyed all information and evidence pertaining to their findings, which we were going to use in our defence [sic]."
The decision to call the National Guard to the Capitol is made by the Capitol Police Board, not the House speaker, and that body decided not to ask for troops ahead of the insurrection, but did eventually ask for help after the riot had begun, and Jan. 6 committee chairman Bennie Thompson (D-MS) said some video recordings of witnesses were not archived but written transcripts were provided in compliance with House rules.
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"Why isn’t Deranged Jack investigating them for this destruction of important documents that were vital to my defense in any upcoming or potential trial?" Trump posted. "Because under Crooked Joe Biden we have become a two tiered system of INJUSTICE!"