Trump blasts DOJ for 'election interference,' calls Jack Smith case a 'scam' after judge unseals key filing

Former President Trump blasted the Justice Department Wednesday for having "disobeyed their ain regularisation successful favour of implicit and full predetermination interference" aft a key filing from Special Counsel Jack Smith’s predetermination lawsuit against him was unsealed with conscionable weeks earlier Americans formed their ballots. 

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia Judge Tanya Chutkan unsealed Smith’s 165-page filing Wednesday afternoon. The filing lays retired his lawsuit and the alleged grounds helium intends to usage successful an eventual proceedings against Trump. 

Trump pleaded not blameworthy to each charges brought by Smith. 

JUDGE UNSEALS KEY FILING IN SPECIAL COUNSEL JACK SMITH'S ELECTION CASE

But Trump blasted the Justice Department Wednesday evening. 

"For 60 days anterior to an election, the Department of Injustice is expected to bash perfectly thing that would taint oregon interfere with a case," Trump posted successful each superior letters to his Truth Social. "They disobeyed their ain regularisation successful favour of implicit and full predetermination interference."

"I did thing wrong, they did!" helium continued. 

Republican statesmanlike nominee erstwhile President Donald Trump speaks during a run event, Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2024, successful Mint Hill, N.C. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

DOJ signifier during an predetermination twelvemonth has often been to clasp disconnected connected large actions successful cases that could interaction elections during the 60 days starring up to Election Day, an unwritten argumentation commonly referred to arsenic the "60-day rule." The "rule," which is truly much of a contented due to the fact that it is not an existent rule, has been cited galore times successful caller years.

"The lawsuit is simply a scam, conscionable similar each of the others, including the documents case, which was dismissed!" 

Trump was pointing to the different lawsuit Smith brought against him related to classified records. The lawsuit was tossed retired by a national justice successful Florida who ruled that Smith was unlawfully appointed arsenic peculiar counsel. 

The erstwhile president further blasted Democrats, saying they are "weaponizing the Justice Department against maine due to the fact that they I cognize I americium WINNING, and they are hopeless to prop up their failing candidate, Kamala Harris." 

Trump said the unsealing of the Smith filing, which helium called the "latest ‘hit job,’" happened due to the fact that his moving mate, Sen. JD Vance "humiliated" Harris’ moving mate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz during Tuesday night’s vice statesmanlike debate. 

Trump said the Justice Department "has go thing much than an hold of Joe’s, and present Kamala’s, campaign." 

TRUMP TRIAL STEMMING FROM JACK SMITH'S PROBE DELAYED PAST ELECTION DAY

"This is egregious PROSECUTORIAL MISCONDUCT, and should not person been released close earlier the Election," Trump said. "The Democrat Party is turning America into a Third World Country that tries to censor, harass, and intimidate their Political Opponents. What they person done to our Justice System is 1 of the Great, All Time, Tragedies." 

The erstwhile president added that the Democrat Party "is blameworthy of the Worst Election Interference successful American History." 

"They are trying to DESTROY OUR DEMOCRACY, allowing millions of radical to participate our Country illegally. They are determined to halt america from winning backmost the White House, sealing the Border, and MAKING AMERICA GREAT AGAIN. BUT THEY WILL FAIL, AND WE WILL SAVE OUR NATION!" Trump posted. 

Trump besides blasted Smith arsenic "deranged," and said that he, the "Harris-Biden DOJ, and Washington, D.C. based Radical Left Democrats, are "HELL BENT connected continuing to Weaponize the Justice Department successful an effort to cling to power." 

"'TRUMP' is dominating the Election cycle, starring successful the Polls, and the Radical Democrats passim the Deep State are wholly ‘freaking out.’ This full lawsuit is simply a Partisan, Unconstitutional, Witch Hunt, that should beryllium dismissed, entirely, conscionable similar the Florida lawsuit was dismissed!" Trump said. 

The Department of Justice seals is seen during a quality league astatine the DOJ bureau successful Washington, May 16, 2023. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Trump’s comments came successful effect to Smith's newly-unsealed filing, successful which helium alleges Trump "resorted to crimes to effort to enactment successful office" aft losing the 2020 statesmanlike election.

"With backstage co-conspirators, the suspect launched a bid of progressively hopeless plans to overturn the morganatic predetermination results successful 7 states that helium had mislaid — Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin," Smith wrote. 

"His efforts included lying to authorities officials successful bid to induce them to disregard existent ballot counts; manufacturing fraudulent electoral votes successful the targeted states; attempting to enlist Vice President Michael R. Pence, successful his relation arsenic President of the Senate, to obstruct Congress’s certification of the predetermination by utilizing the defendant’s fraudulent electoral votes; and erstwhile each other had failed, connected January 6, 2021, directing an aggravated assemblage of supporters to the United States Capitol to obstruct the legislature certification." 

Smith claims that the "throughline of these efforts was deceit," claiming Trump and co-conspirators engaged successful a conspiracy to interfere with the national authorities relation by which the federation collects and counts predetermination results, which is acceptable distant successful the Constitution and the Electoral Count Act (ECA); a conspiracy to obstruct the authoritative proceeding successful which Congress certifies the morganatic results of the statesmanlike election; and a conspiracy against the rights of millions of Americans to ballot and person their votes counted." 

The Supreme Court earlier this twelvemonth ruled that a president is immune from prosecution for authoritative acts. 

Donald Trump and Jack Smith  (Getty Images)

TRUMP INDICTED A SECOND TIME IN ELECTION SUBVERSION CASE BROUGHT BY SPECIAL COUNSEL JACK SMITH

Smith was past required to record different indictment against Trump, revising the charges successful an effort to navigate the Supreme Court ruling. The caller indictment kept the anterior transgression charges but narrowed and reframed allegations against Trump aft the precocious court’s ruling that gave wide immunity to erstwhile presidents. 

Trump pleaded not blameworthy to each charges successful the new indictment arsenic well. 

Trump run spokesperson Steven Cheung told Fox News Digital the merchandise of the "falsehood-ridden, unconstitutional J6 little instantly pursuing Tim Walz’s disastrous statement show is different evident effort by the Harris-Biden authorities to undermine American Democracy and interfere successful this election." 

"Deranged Jack Smith and Washington DC Radical Democrats are hell-bent connected weaponizing the Justice Department successful an effort to cling to power," Cheung said. "President Trump is dominating, and the Radical Democrats passim the Deep State are freaking out.

"This full lawsuit is simply a partisan, Unconstitutional Witch Hunt that should beryllium dismissed entirely, unneurotic with ALL of the remaining Democrat hoaxes." 

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Last month, Chutkan said she would not clasp the proceedings for Trump connected charges stemming from Smith's Jan. 6 probe until aft the 2024 statesmanlike election. She acceptable deadlines for replies and paperwork from national prosecutors and Trump's ineligible squad for Nov. 7 — aft Election Day. 

Fox News' Jake Gibson contributed to this report.