Jack Smith doing more than 'taking the gloves off' in new Trump filing: Legal expert

A former federal prosecutor and legal expert Glenn Kirschner described Special Counsel Jack Smith's methods of jury selection as "priming the well" in advance of former President Donald Trump's federal election interference case.

In Smith's newest filing, he is doing more than taking off the gloves, according to Kirschner. "He boxed them up, taped up the box, and sent them to long-term storage."

Reading from the "Motion for Fair and Protective Jury Procedures" filed by Smith, which seeks to have the Judge Tanya Chutkan utilize a written questionnaire to select a jury and also keep Trump, his lawyers, and close supporters from tainting the jury.

"You can't friend the juror -- trying to draw more information out of the jury," Kirschner said in the video. "You can't communicate or attempt to communicate not from yourself or an intermediary."

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He then appears to speak directly to the 45th president from the POV of Judge Chutkan.

"So look Donald (pointing at the camera), you can't have any of your dirty associates, you know (whispering) Rudy Giuliani or Roger Stone or Steve Bannon put a friend request in for the potential jurors. That would violate the resolution, and the limitations of prosecution is seeking to have the court impose."

The recent filing has Smith's team specifically focusing in on Trump's post about the judge's clerk in the $250 million civil fraud trial.

Trump's supposed criticism of the court personnel last week prompted a judge to issue an oral order restricting all parties from commenting publicly about his court staff.

Smith's filing on Tuesday laid out the need for guard rails on the former commander-in-chief who is currently leading the pack of candidates in purse and popularity to become the GOP candidate for the 2024 presidential election.

"There are other good reasons in this case for the Court to impose these restrictions and enforce this District's standard prohibition against publicizing jurors' identities," according to Smith's motion. "Chief among them is the defendant's continued use of social media as a weapon of intimidation in court proceedings."

Kirschner sees the methods as a preemptive fail-safe to essentially force the hand of the judge to limit Trump's counterpunches in the public forum.

"...It also looks like the prosecutors are priming the well," he said in the video. "Because they put a lot of information in there -- appropriately so -- about Donald Trump's most recent reckless speech and posts endangering a judge's law clerk."

The legal expert, who admits he isn't a betting man, feels that it would be a solid wager to place that come Oct. 16, when a hearing is to be held regarding the institution of a potential gag order, the former president is going be forced to abide by the rules.

"As you probably heard me say before I don't often bet on the outcome of trials -- it's a fool's errand," said Kirschner. "Plus I'm not a betting man.

"I'm not a high roller. One dollar is my betting limit."

He continues: "But I would bet the full buck on Judge Chutkan imposing some narrowly tailored restrictions on Donald Trump's speech, posts, and on his dangerous rhetoric. Sometimes deadly rhetoric after that hearing is conducted on Monday Oct. 16."

"If Donald Trump has shown anything to be true: it is he is willing to endanger witnesses, jurors, prosecutors, judges they're respective family members. And he's willing to urge his supporters to do all sorts of let's call them inappropriate things to help him avoid and evade his responsibility for his crimes."

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