Trump won't have to respond to bombshell Smith filing until after election

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Salon

Published October 3, 2024 8:38PM (EDT)


Former President Donald Trump will not have to respond to special counsel Jack Smith’s massive recent filing in the ongoing election interference case against him until after the election, a judge ruled on Thursday.

Smith's Wednesday filing exposed a multitude of accusations against the former president and alleged extensive attempts to interfere with the transfer of power from the Trump administration to that of President Joe Biden. D.C. judge Tanya Chutkan granted the ex-president’s motion to delay a response to that filing in part, denying an ask for a late-November response date but pushing the required response date until November 7.

The case was already delayed by months earlier this year when the Supreme Court agreed to hear the issue of presidential immunity in the case, ultimately handing down a sweeping ruling that sent Smith back to the drawing board. Smith’s office filed a superseding indictment in August with the revised charges, framing Trump’s plot to steal the 2020 election as the actions of a private citizen, not those taken in his capacity as president.

A trial was already out of the question before the election, but the scheduling decision makes it all but certain that Smith’s will be the final word in the case before voters cast their ballots.

Read more: https://www.salon.com/2024/10/03/wont-have-to-respond-to-bombshell-smith-filing-until-after/?in_brief=true

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1. FUUUUUUUUCCCCCCKKKKKK!!!!!

[Wednesdays]

2. Blessing in disguise?

Last paragraph concludes:
"...makes it all but certain that Smith’s will be the final word in the case before voters cast their ballots."

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3. But we don't get to see the addendum's/evidence!

That could make the difference in the election.

[BumRushDaShow]

6. There's already a shitload of stuff that is out there from the filing that is being discussed by everyone

I don't know if you have actually looked at any of it.

Here is a link (PDF) - https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.258149/gov.uscourts.dcd.258149.252.0.pdf

[onenote]

16. I don't think that is true at all.

Trump's already was subject to a deadline to respond to Smith's filing -- not to the redactions but to the substance of the filing -- on October 17. He sought a five week extension of that deadline until November 21. Judge Chutkan gave him a 3 week extension until November 7. But that extension is unrelated to the deadline to file objections to the redactions in the appendix and does not in any way prevent Judge Chutkan from ruling on those objections, if any are filed, in the same prompt manner she responded to the objections to the redactions in the brief.

[BumRushDaShow]

5. No need to fret - he won't have time to REBUT anything that Jack Smith just unloaded to the world before the election

The trial wasn't going to happen before the election anyway and as the OP article excerpt notes - Smith "would have the final word" before the election.

[Ocelot II]

10. This is a good thing!

No challenge to Smith’s argument until then!

[bullimiami]

4. Whatever. Any response will be bullshit anyway.

We need him losing this election and in court.

[Ocelot II]

7. Good. Jack Smith's brief therefore goes unchallenged

until after the election. Eeeexcellent!!!!

[JohnSJ]

9. I agree.

[Polybius]

11. And if Trump wins?

He'll fire Smith.

[LeftInTX]

14. He won't be president on Nov 7th!

[Polybius]

17. True

If he wins, speed up the process by 100 times.

[JohnSJ]

8. They are assuming Trump will win and they won't need to file it

Let’s prove them wrong.

[thesquanderer]

13. Even if he wins, he'd have to file by Nov 7 (legally, anyway)

He'd have no power until January 20, 2025. Until then, he's still just a private citizen, with no influence on the justice department, etc..

[Ferrets are Cool]

12. The damage has been done. All we need to do now is win the election and he will be going to jail.

[ZonkerHarris]

15. Fine. Let all the info bleed out into the collective unconscious out there unanswered for a month or so.

[Bengus81]

18. Who cares? We've wait almost four years for this POS to really be held accountable

When he gets smoked on 11/5 then it will be GAME ON like Trump has never seen. That's when all the shit against him and the convictions get real.