US District Judge Tanya Chutkan dismissed most of Donald Trump's legal team's attempts to obtain more evidence in his election interference case. She rejected Trump's argument that his focus was on foreign influence rather than domestic voter fraud, stating there is no reason to believe his concerns about foreign influence were genuine.
Judge Tanya Chutkan rejected most of Trump 's lawyer's attempts to compel prosecutors to hand over more evidence in their case.on Wednesday rejected the former president's claim that he was actually concerned about foreign influence and interference in the 2020 election — rather than the false claims about domestic voter fraud that he repeated in the weeks before
"At best, then, Defendant might attempt to use information about these network breaches to argue that because of generic foreign cyberattacks unrelated to election results, he had reason to worry that foreign adversaries would interfere in the 2020 election, which in turn somehow gave him a good-faith basis to claim that forms," Chutkan wrote."That logic is too strained to meet Defendant’s burden.
Trump's state of mind is essential to the case, and Smith's team has alleged that Trump"knew" his election lies"were false."Chutkan also rejected Trump's request for evidence on"undercover agents and individuals acting at the direction of official authorities at the Capitol on January 6," a request that aligns with the
Chutkan also rejected Trump's request for communications by"members, relatives, or associates of the Biden Administration," saying the"sweepingly broad and undefined" request"utterly fails" to meet the rigorous standard required for Trump to be able to make a selective prosecution claim.
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