[FoxNews] The filing seeks to prevent Trump from pointing out security failures at the Capitol on Jan 6, 2021.
Special Counsel Jack Smith has filed another motion with the district court, which seeks to tamp down what former President Donald Trump's legal team can tell a jury in his federal trial currently scheduled for March.
The motion, filed Wednesday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, is seeking to limit what statements Trump can make leading up to his scheduled March 4 federal trial on alleged 2020 election interference.
That includes a request to prevent Trump from telling the jury he is being prosecuted by the DOJ in coordination with President Biden, as well as suggestions by Trump of undercover agents fomenting violence at the Capitol riots, and of "foreign influence" in the 2020 election.
"Through public statements, filings, and argument in hearings before the Court, the defense has attempted to inject into this case partisan political attacks and irrelevant and prejudicial issues that have no place in a jury trial," Smith's team told U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan.
"Although the Court can recognize these efforts for what they are and disregard them, the jury — if subjected to them — may not. The Court should not permit the defendant to turn the courtroom into a forum in which he propagates irrelevant disinformation, and should reject his attempt to inject politics into this proceeding. To ensure that the jury remains focused on its fact-finding duty and applies the law as instructed by the Court, the defendant’s improper evidence and argument should be excluded."
The filing claims that "through his groundless demand for discovery of evidence regarding ‘investigative misconduct,’" Trump "has suggested that he intends to impeach the integrity of the investigation by raising wholly false claims such as the Government’s non-existent ‘coordination with the Biden Administration’ and other empty allegations recycled from the selective and vindictive prosecution motion that he based on anonymous sources in newspaper articles.
"Although the defendant is entitled to cross-examine the Government’s law enforcement witnesses about matters fairly within the scope of their direct testimony, he cannot raise wholly irrelevant topics in an effort to confuse and distract the jury. Much as the defendant would like it otherwise, this trial should be about the facts and the law, not politics."
The motion seeks to prevent Trump from telling jurors about the potential punishment he could face if convicted, as well as blaming law enforcement agencies for a lack of preparation in advance of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
"Evidence about undercover actors holds no probative value here," Smith's team wrote in the filing regarding the riot, saying the "defendant also appears poised to blame undercover agents, government informants, or confidential human sources (collectively, ‘undercover actors’) for the violence at the Capitol on January 6."
Fox News Digital reached out to the Trump campaign for comment but did not immediately receive a response.
The motion to preclude Trump from introducing broad categories of arguments is a way for prosecutors to try to set parameters on what information they believe the jury should, or should not, hear when the case reaches trial. It was filed as the case is effectively on hold during an appeal of the former president’s claims that he is immune from prosecution for acts taken while in the White House.
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Given the abilities of the US DC Swamp controlled _ _ _ /_ _ _ _ agencies to snoop, eavesdrop and spy. I have to wonder how secure Trump's Lawyer offices and files are?
Or, is the association of Political DA's, we've seen in action, just picking things to out of the air to tie Trump lawyer group up in court?
[NYPOST] reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel... Mayor Brandon Johnson ...Hizzonner da Mare of Chicago. He was elected in April 2023 to replace the disastrous Lori Lightfoot and immediately set about out-Richtering her. A member of the Democratic Party (naturally), Johnson previously worked as a social studies teacher in the city's stellar public schools system. He helped organize the 2012 teachers strike. Prior to becoming Da Mare, he served on the Cook County Board of Boodlng Commissioners from 2018 to 2023... pleaded Wednesday for the federal government to take a bigger role in tackling the migrant crisis, warning that the Windy City and other parts of the US are being overwhelmed by new arrivals. "BJ", or "Blowie" per Second City Cop Blog
"Without real, significant investment from our federal government, it won’t just be the city of Chicago that won’t be able to maintain this mission," Johnson told CNN ...formerly the Cable News Network, now who know what it might stand for... "It’s the entire country that is now at stake."
Johnson, 47, explained that he’s asked the Biden administration to set aside $15 billion worth of resources to address the issue.
Biden requested $13.6 billion for border security as part of a $106 billion supplemental aid package he unveiled in October that also included assistance for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan.
Negotiations over that legislation are currently stalled in the Senate, with no vote in prospect until after the new year, if ever.
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Notice the shapes these mouths take when there's a microphone nearby?
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Obviously, these mayors have very little influence, like their state Senators to murmur they might well vote for impeachment if this is not shut down immediately. Cause you know the mayor isn't going to say he'll deliver the votes to the alternative candidate if they do nothing.
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