CNN —Former President Donald Trump is again claiming that special counsel Jack Smith is trying to influence the November presidential election by seeking to make new evidence and witness testimony public as voters start to go to the polls.
The brief is aimed at convincing the trial judge in the case – and eventually, higher courts – that Smith’s case can survive under the Supreme Court’s recent ruling that said Trump had at least some presidential immunity in the prosecution.
The filing is expected to reveal new evidence against Trump, including what several witnesses testified to in the grand jury proceedings.
Sources say the proposed redactions are minimal, blacking the sources of the information and removing witness names, but leaving the substance of what they said about Trump for public view.
When Smith filed the sealed brief last week, he defended the proposed redactions as striking the balance between protecting witnesses and maintaining public access to the case.
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Donald Trump, Jack Smith, Smith, Trump, Department’s, ” Trump, Tanya Chutkan, redactions
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CNN, Republican White House, Trump, Justice
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United States, Florida