Evidence Against Trump in 2020 Election Case Was Made Public. How Will It Affect the 2024 Election?

U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan made public Special Counsel Jack Smith's brief laying out the evidence against former President Trump in his 2020 election subversion case.

From the Left: MSNBC (Left bias) columnist Glenn Kirschner made the case that Trump's arguments about Smith changing his position were "empty allegations of hypocrisy" because Smith's circumstances changed due to Supreme Court directives. Kirschner argues that Trump's fillings hastened the process so that he might face justice for his actions on Jan. 6 sooner. "Trump’s new court filing made Chutkan’s job much easier. It was so unpersuasive that Chutkan simply set it aside, concluded that Smith’s proposed redactions struck the right balance and ordered his motion to be filed on the public record so she can move on to the litigation the Supreme Court has directed her to oversee," he said.

From the Right: Andrew C. McCarthy for the National Review (Right bias) argued that the right to a speedy trial applies to the defendant, but promptness isn't owed to the public. "There is nothing just about prosecutors’ filing four indictments against their party’s political rival with the objective of trying him before Election Day in a manner that gives him inadequate time to prepare for trial, let alone prepare for four trials," he said. He added that Chutkan was appointed by Obama and is likely sympathetic to the case against Trump. Even without a conviction, McCarthy says, "Smith’s allegations will be used by Democrats and repeated by the media as if they are established fact, the conclusions of a searching, exacting probe by a Justice Department special counsel."