Donald Trump has been accused by special counsel Jack Smith of making “daily extrajudicial statements that threaten to prejudice the jury pool” in the former president’s 20202 election trial.
Mr Smith’s claims against the Republican 2024 frontrunner about his impact on the Washington DC jury pool came in a new filing in the federal criminal case.
It is part of a court fight between the special counsel’s office and Mr Trump’s legal team over a filing that the Justice Department wants to make under seal.
Meanwhile, Mr Trump is hitting back at attempts to ban him from the 2024 presidential race under the 14th Amendment.
Several Democrats and top legal scholars have argued that Mr Trump should be disqualified from running for president again as the amendment bans insurrectionists from holding public office.
Mr Trump took to Truth Social on Labor Day ranting that it is “just another ‘trick’ being used by the Radical Left Communists, Marxists, and Fascists, to again steal an Election that their candidate, the WORST, MOST INCOMPETENT, & MOST CORRUPT President in US history, is incapable of winning in a Free and Fair Election. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”
Meanwhile, now all of Mr Trump’s 18 co-defendants in his Georgia election interference case have joined him in pleading not guilty and in waiving their right to appear at their arraignment which was scheduled for Wednesday in Fulton County.