Trump slams DOJ for violating own ‘election interference’ rule

Former President Donald Trump lashed out Wednesday at the Biden-Harris Department of Justice for allegedly interfering in the 2024 presidential election.

According to Trump, the alleged interference involved District of Columbia Judge Tanya Chutkan unsealing Special Counsel Jack Smith’s 165-page case against him.

“The 165-page document, which lands weeks before an election in which Trump is taking another shot at the White House, offers new detail about special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into the former president’s efforts to lean on state officials and paint a narrative of widespread fraud that prosecutors say Trump knew was untrue,” according to CNN.

“It includes new details of Trump’s frayed relationship with former Vice President Mike Pence; FBI evidence of Trump’s phone usage on January 6, 2021, when rioters overtook the US Capitol; and conversations with family members and others where the then-president was fighting his loss to Joe Biden,” CNN noted.

“When the defendant lost the 2020 presidential election, he resorted to crimes to try to stay in office,” Smith himself wrote in the document. “At its core, the defendant’s scheme was a private one. He extensively used private actors and his campaign infrastructure to attempt to overturn the election results and operated in a private capacity as a candidate for office.”

The general idea you get from reading the document is that Trump’s a bad dude who tried to illegally overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. The fact that the document has been unsealed so close to the election has not pleased him:

“FOR 60 DAYS PRIOR TO AN ELECTION, THE DEPARTMENT OF INJUSTICE IS SUPPOSED TO DO ABSOLUTELY NOTHING THAT WOULD TAINT OR INTERFERE WITH A CASE,” he wrote on Truth Social in all-caps late Thursday.

“THEY DISOBEYED THEIR OWN RULE IN FAVOR OF COMPLETE AND TOTAL ELECTION INTERFERENCE. I DID NOTHING WRONG, THEY DID! THE CASE IS A SCAM, JUST LIKE ALL OF THE OTHERS, INCLUDING THE DOCUMENTS CASE, WHICH WAS DISMISSED!”

In an additional Truth Social post, this one not in all-caps, he accused the DOJ of purposefully unsealing the documents on Wednesday because of Republican vice-presidential candidate J.D. Vance’s stellar performance the night before against Democrat vice-presidential candidate Tim Walz.

“Democrats are Weaponizing the Justice Department against me because they know I am WINNING, and they are desperate to prop up their failing Candidate, Kamala Harris,” he wrote. “The DOJ pushed out this latest ‘hit job’ today because JD Vance humiliated Tim Walz last night in the Debate. The DOJ has become nothing more than an extension of Joe’s, and now Kamala’s, Campaign.”

“This is egregious PROSECUTORIAL MISCONDUCT, and should not have been released right before the Election. The Democrat Party is turning America into a Third World Country that tries to censor, harass, and intimidate their Political Opponents. What they have done to our Justice System is one of the Great, All Time, Tragedies,” he added.

Look:

Does Trump have a point? It appears so.

Fox News notes that it’s customary for the DOJ to “hold off on major actions in cases that could impact elections during the 60 days leading up to Election Day.” It’s unofficially known as the 60-day rule.

Yet in this case, the DOJ chose to toss the rule aside and go all-in on what appears to be a concerted attempt to hurt Trump.

“The release of this falsehood-ridden, Unconstitutional, J6 brief immediately following Tim Walz’s disastrous Debate performance, and 33 days before the Most Important Election in the History of our Country, is another obvious attempt by the Harris-Biden regime to undermine and Weaponize American Democracy, and INTERFERE IN THE 2024 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION,” the former president wrote in another Truth Social post.

“Deranged Jack Smith, the hand-picked Prosecutor of the Harris-Biden DOJ, and Washington, D.C. based Radical Left Democrats, are HELL BENT on continuing to Weaponize the Justice Department in an attempt to cling to power,” he added.

Trump concluded the post by noting that he’s “dominating the Election cycle” poll-wise and claiming that Democrats are “freaking out,” which therefore explains their latest attack against him.

Speaking later with Fox News, Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung echoed much of what his boss had written, telling them that the release of the “falsehood-ridden, unconstitutional J6 brief immediately following Tim Walz’s disastrous debate performance is another obvious attempt by the Harris-Biden regime to undermine American Democracy and interfere in this election.”

“Deranged Jack Smith and Washington DC Radical Democrats are hell-bent on weaponizing the Justice Department in an attempt to cling to power,” he added. “President Trump is dominating, and the Radical Democrats throughout the Deep State are freaking out.”

Vivek Saxena

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