President Biden’s Department of Justice and Special Counsel Jack Smith proposed a trial date of Jan. 2, 2024, which is just ahead of the Republican primary elections.
Critics say Smith is intentionally causing election interference on Biden’s behalf as Trump is the frontrunner for the Republican Party in 2024. In November 2022, U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed Jack Smith to be the special counsel to investigate former President Trump.
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Since then, Trump is facing a total of four criminal indictments — two of which are being led by Smith. Critics say Smith has been task with one goal: Get Trump. (Trending: Ex-Capitol Police Chief Drops Bombshell About Jan 6)
Smith is proposing a date just two weeks ahead of the important Iowa caucus for the Republican presidential nomination. In response, lawyers for Trump proposed April 2026 as the date to start the trial in the case involving his alleged efforts to challenge the results of the 2020 election. This new date would be long after the 2024 election.
Trump’s lawyers rejected special counsel Jack Smith’s proposed date of Jan. 2, 2024, arguing that he “seeks a trial calendar more rapid than most no-document misdemeanors, requesting just four months from the beginning of discovery to jury selection.”
“The government’s objective is clear: to deny President Trump and his counsel a fair ability to prepare for trial. The Court should deny the government’s request,” the lawyers wrote. “The public interest lies in justice and fair trial, not a rush to judgment.”
Making matters worse for Trump, Judge Chutkan has been assigned to the case. Known as a far-left judge, former President Barack Obama appointed both Chutkan and her husband, Peter Krauthamer, to highly sought-after judgeships in Washington, DC.
Chutkan will make a decision concerning the trial date on August 28th. It’s widely suspected that Chutkan will side with Smith. The controversial judge has deep family ties to some of the most influential Marxists in Jamaica. In 1962, Chutkan’s grandfather, Frank Hill, and great uncle, Ken Hill, played a key role in founding Jamaica’s Marxist group called the People’s National Party (PNP).
In recent years, Chutkan has been using her power to hand out harsh sentences to January 6 defendants. She is known for punishing Trump supporters more severely than her peers on the federal bench. During the sentencing of a January 6 defendant, Chutkan complained to the court that Trump “remains free to this day.” Many Americans are demanding that Chutkan recuse herself from the case given her obvious bias and political motivation. (Poll: Is CNN ‘Fake News’? VOTE)
“This case is not just complex or unusual. It is terra incognita,” the lawyers wrote. “No president has ever been charged with a crime for conduct committed while in office. No major party presidential candidate has ever been charged while in the middle of a campaign—and certainly not by a Justice Department serving his opponent.”
“These and numerous other issues will be questions of first impression, requiring significant time for the parties to consider and brief, and for the Court to resolve.”
Smith’s office have put together 11.5 million pages of discovery. “To put 11.5 million pages in some perspective, we began downloading the government’s initial production on August 13, 2023. Two days later, it was still downloading,” they wrote. “Nonetheless, even assuming we could begin reviewing the documents today, we would need to proceed at a pace of 99,762 pages per day to finish the government’s initial production by its proposed date for jury selection,” they continued. “That is the entirety of Tolstoy’s War and Peace, cover to cover, 78 times a day, every day, from now until jury selection.”
Smith is known as a career prosecutor who was notoriously involved in the Lois Lerner IRS scandal during the Obama years. At the time, Lerner served as director of the IRS’s Exempt Organizations Unit and led an effort to target anti-Obama Tea Party groups and other conservative nonprofit organizations.
In the scandal, Smith reportedly pushed for the Department of Justice “to contact Lerner and the IRS in order to get the DOJ involved seemed to be the impetus behind the IRS sending the FBI reams of nonprofit tax records.”
Republican Rep. Jim Jordan said, “Jack Smith was looking for ways to prosecute the innocent Americans that Lois Lerner targeted during the IRS scandal.” The DOJ ultimately admitted that federal agencies, including the IRS, committed wrongdoing by targeting conservatives. Lerner apologized to the country.
