Jack Smith accuses Trump of trying to 'disrupt the trial date' in new D.C. filing
Special counsel Jack Smith Friday night hit Trump with a filing in the D.C. elections case, accusing the former president of working overtime to disrupt the trial date.
The brief accuses Trump of using two separate motions, one in which he seeks to stay all proceedings in the case, to mess with a March date already set for the trial in the election subversion case.
Smith said Friday that "defendant’s requests are designed to disrupt the trial date and delay the resolution of this matter."
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The filing specifically calls out Trump's purported "delay tactics" since the beginning of the case itself.
"Since indictment, the defendant has routinely forecast the possibility of raising various motions with the Court, while at the same time seeking to delay filing them," Smith wrote. "No further delay should be permitted, and the Court should exercise its discretion to decline both requests."
Smith further says Trump is "grasping at straws" in delay attempts.
"The defendant’s misleading criticism of the way the Government produced emails exposes that he is grasping at straws for an excuse to delay these proceedings," Smith wrote Friday. "For example, he alleges without support that the Government 'did not follow' a 'standard procedure' regarding 'threading,' a form of organizing email messages. The fact of the matter is that the procedure the Government followed, which constitutes a best practice, is to produce discovery in load-ready files identifiable by the source from which the information was received— whether from lay witnesses, Government agencies, or email providers."