'Recycled allegations': Jack Smith hits back at Trump's contempt effort in new filing

Special Counsel Jack Smith said Friday that he will continue to make filings in his case in D.C. alleging election subversion efforts by Donald Trump, firing back at a bid by the ex-president to hold him in contempt.

In a 15-page filing, Trump's attorneys accused Smith and two other federal prosecutors of defying a court's order pausing Trump's federal election subversion trial. Some said, however, that the former president "overplayed his hand" with that motion.

Now, Smith has filed an official response, according to Politico's senior legal affairs reporter, Kyle Cheney.

"Jack Smith says that despite Trump's complaints, he plans to continue making trial filings — like providing evidence and a witness list — on schedule," Cheney wrote. "Nothing stops him from voluntarily complying w deadlines, he says."

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Cheney also linked to a copy of the filing, in which Smith argues that Trump is making "recycled allegations."

"The defendant claims that the Government intentionally violated the Court’s stay order, and promoted a political agenda, by fulfilling its continuing discovery obligations and voluntarily complying with otherwise suspended deadlines. That is false," the filing states. "The Government has not violated—and never intentionally would violate—an order of the Court, and the defendant’s recycled allegations of partisanship and prosecutorial misconduct remain baseless. The defendant’s motion for an order to show cause should be denied."

Read the full filing by Smith here.