Trump is to blame for the timing of the release of Jack Smith’s bombshell brief: Mary Trump

According to his niece, Mary Trump, Donald Trump is to blame for the timing of Jack Smith’s bombshell report intended to show that the former president should be held accountable for allegedly interfering in the 2020 election.

U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan on Wednesday unveiled 165 pages of evidence filed against Trump in his voter fraud case. The Republican presidential candidate denied the allegations.

The filing, which was made public at the request of special counsel Jack Smith, alleges that Trump called then-Vice President Mike Pence on the morning of January 6, 2021, requesting that he not confirm President Joe Biden’s election later that day, and that a Campaign Employee in Detroit, he texted a Trump agent, among other things, to incite a riot among his supporters outside the vote counting center.

After the release of the files, Trump claimed that “Mad Jack Smith” and the “DOJ (Department of Justice)” scheduled the release after the vice presidential debate, where many believed that running mate J.D. Vance came in first.

“The Department of Justice rejected this latest ‘hit job’ today because J.D. Vance humiliated Tim Walz last night during the debate. The Department of Justice has become nothing more than an extension of Joe’s campaign and now Kamala’s,” he wrote in a post on Truth Społeczny.

In another post the same day, Trump named Smith among those who “armed” the Justice Department.

“Deranged Jack Smith, the chosen prosecutor of the Harris-Biden Justice Department, and the Washington, D.C.-based Radical Left Democrats are HELL DETERMINED to continue to weaponize the Justice Department in an attempt to stay in power,” Trump said.

Elsewhere he wrote: “This is a case of Jack Smith election interference. Old information that should not have been released before the election. There was no reason to reveal them. Gregg Jarrett, FoxNews.”

However, in a blog post, Trump’s estranged niece, Mary Trump, wrote that he was actually to blame for the release date due to his repeated attempts to delay the case against him.

“The bottom line is that Donald and other GOP operatives are accusing Jack Smith and Judge Chutkan of election interference because the document was released just 35 days before the election,” she wrote.

“So if Donald wants to blame anyone for making Smith’s testimony public so close to the election, he just needs to look in the mirror.”

Newsweek reached out to the Trump campaign for comment via email.

Trump’s election interference trial was originally scheduled to begin in April. But the former president’s legal team made several attempts to dismiss the case, delaying the start of the trial and reducing the likelihood that he would be tried before the November election.

– said David Weinstein, a former federal prosecutor and now a partner at the law firm Jones Walker Newsweek this week that the timing of Smith’s application was entirely coincidental. He said entries in the case file dated September 5 show that Chutkan ordered the government to file a briefing by September 26. The court clerk was directed to present this briefing publicly on September 27.

“Once again, he (Trump) is wrong,” Weinstein said.

“Jack Smith had nothing to do with the pleading being made public. The publication of the procedural document was not scheduled during the vice-president debate and elections. It was completely accidental.

“According to the case file, the judge set these dates for early September.”

Meanwhile, Temple University Charles Klein Professor of Law and Government Craig Green said Newsweek that the timeline for submitting the government’s submissions was set by Chutkan a few weeks ago and either side would have the opportunity to raise objections.

“The decision to unseat the document yesterday (October 2) – a document originally filed on September 26 – was made by Judge Chutkan,” Green said.

“Here again, if Trump’s lawyers were concerned about political repercussions, they might have objected, even more so if they suspected political motives.

“Judge Chutkan’s decision to open the seal and the timing of the decision to open the seal were solely hers – nothing to do with Jack Smith – and she made that decision at every opportunity so that Trump’s lawyers could object and be heard if something seemed potentially inappropriate inappropriate or political,” he said. “It’s the opposite of a ‘hit job’.”

“Jack Smith has been pushing for this case to be heard for two years. It was Trump who demanded delay after delay and managed to prevent the trial from continuing before the election. Now he complains that the court proceedings are still ongoing, said former federal prosecutor Peter Zeidenberg.

“It’s his doing, not Jack Smith’s.”

Trump is accused of conspiring to defraud the United States; conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding; obstructing and attempting to obstruct official proceedings; and conspiracy against the law in connection with an alleged campaign to pressure government officials to alter the results of the 2020 election.

He denied all allegations against him and repeatedly said that he was a victim of a political witch hunt. He also accused Smith of trying to interfere in the 2024 presidential election by prosecuting him.

Late last month, Smith filed an updated indictment against Trump, bringing the case in line with a Supreme Court ruling that former presidents have some immunity from criminal prosecution for “official” actions.

The new indictment removes all accusations against Trump that he tried to pressure the Justice Department to falsely declare that President Joe Biden’s 2020 election victory was the result of massive fraud, after the Supreme Court ruled that it was official behavior.

The list of anonymous co-conspirators has been shortened, and the term “private lawyer” now describes unindicted lawyers who allegedly helped Trump pressure officials to overturn the results.

It also removes all references to Trump as the 45th president of the United States and instead refers to him as a “presidential candidate.”