Donald Trump Facing 'Karma' in Judge Chutkan's Jack Smith Case—Attorney
Amid Donald Trump 's federal election subversion case where Department of Justice (DOJ) special counsel Jack Smith recently filed a legal brief that lays out new evidence, attorney and legal analyst Glenn Kirschner said on Friday that "karma hangs heavy in the air" for the former president.
Smith filed a sealed 180-page brief on Thursday containing the government's evidence against Trump, who has pleaded not guilty to four felony charges related to attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election and to the January 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol riot that followed.
The special counsel submitted a motion on Friday to publicly release the evidence while redacting some information, such as the names of witnesses who could be "intimidated and threatened" by Trump supporters.
Smith's proposal would include the release of "quotations or summaries of information" from sensitive sources like "grand jury transcripts, interview reports, or material obtained through sealed search warrants."
U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan , who is overseeing the case, gave Trump's legal team on Friday a deadline of October 1 to respond to Smith's motion and a deadline of October 10 to respond to the motion's appendix.
Kirschner, a former assistant U.S. attorney and frequent Trump critic, spoke in a YouTube video on Friday about the deadlines the judge gave.
"Karma hangs heavy in the air. Why do I say that? Well, given two deadlines that Judge Tanya Chutkan just set in Donald Trump's federal election interference case in Washington, D.C., it now looks like we may see the evidence of Donald Trump's January 6 crimes as early as October 2," Kirschner said.
He added: "I just read something that Judge Tanya Chutkan dropped on the public record, it's called a minute order and its two sentences long, but it is potentially a game changer. Now we know for the first time when we might see the evidence of Donald Trump's democracy busting January 6 crimes."
