Judge refuses Trump request to strike Jan. 6 riot from indictment

A federal judge has denied Donald Trump's request to remove language about the Jan. 6 insurrection from his indictment in the election subversion case.

District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan found that Trump's lawyers offered no evidence that language about the U.S. Capitol riot in the federal indictment had polluted the jury pool, and she slapped down “inflammatory and unsupported” allegations against special counsel Jack Smith's office, reported Politico's Kyle Cheney.

"Defendant fails to cite even one example of that evidence," the judge ruled. "In any event, the voir dire process will allow the court to examine and address the effects that pretrial publicity, including any generated by Defendant, has had on the impartiality of potential jurors."

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Trump's lawyers had argued that jurors had already been prejudiced by media coverage of the indictment, but Chutkan found no evidence to support that claim.