Smith's filing was to show the public 'this was a bad guy acting in bad faith': expert

A newly released legal filing that dropped Wednesday in Donald Trump’s election interference case is “really powerful,” a former prosecutor argued, adding it was clear that its release came because the special counsel wanted people to know “this was a bad guy acting in bad faith.”

“This really is a two-part document,” said former federal prosecutor Jennifer Rodgers. “This is for the public, this is for us all to say, 'Well, this is a really powerful case against the former president. This is really, really bad what he did.'”

Rodgers said during an appearance Wednesday night on CNN that she believes the motivation behind the massive legal filing is to try to convince the judge in the case “and all the judges up the chain” that the new evidence should be admitted, and is not subject to the Supreme Court’s recent immunity decision that upended the case against Trump.

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“It kind of has those two things, but that is really more of an atmospheric point,” she said. “They want everyone to know this was a bad guy acting in bad faith and the case against him is really powerful.”

CNN contributor Joey Jackson said that, as a former criminal defense attorney, he is especially concerned by former Vice President Mike Pence’s possible influence over a potential future trial.

“Number one I see Mike Pence shaping up to be an all-star witness here,” Jackson told CNN host Kaitlan Collins. “So, you're going to have Mike Pence really taking the stand if it moves forward, giving damning evidence with respect to the conversations he had with his boss, concerning this fake elector scheme, concerning his presiding over the senate and ditching the real ones and putting in these other ones.”

“And so that's going to be problematic.”

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