Attorneys for former President Donald Trump are formally requesting information from the Biden administration that may expose “politically motivated” intentions regarding his indictment of alleged 2020 election interference. The information requested would include communications about his indictment with “members, relatives, or associates” of the Biden administration and if any undercover informants were present on the January 6th riot outside the Capitol Building.
The argument from Trump’s attorneys was Special Counsel Jack Smith’s office cannot “suppress” evidence that supports “good faith and absence of criminal intent” including “public and private statements” given by numerous prosecutors all while completely blaming Trump for the January 6th riot. The information requested would also detail Capitol security measures and “instances of undercovers and informants who infiltrated the crowd on that day.”
Trump’s lawyers believe the indictment of former President Trump is “little more than partisan advocacy designed to sabotage President Trump’s leading campaign for the 2024 President Election.”
“[T]he Special Counsel’s Office has chosen to rely on the views of witnesses who aligned with the Biden Administration’s political viewpoints, and to treat those biased opinions as objective and irrefutable truths regarding the integrity of the 2020 election and the events of January 6, 2021,” they wrote in the 37-page filing. “The problem with that approach is that President Trump and others—indeed, hundreds of millions of voters—are not obligated to accept at face value the Office’s politically motivated narrative.”
The lawyers also believe the information regarding undercover agents present during the riot is relevant to Trump’s case “because it suggests that there were adequate controls in place and that the violence at issue resulted from a failure of those controls and/or failed sting operations rather than any directions from President Trump.”
Numerous intelligence reports were also requested which could possibly supply evidence of foreign actors interfering in the 2016 and 2020 election supporting the “defense that foreign actors caused and contributed to the circumstances at issue in this case.”
“The Office cannot blame President Trump for public discord and distrust of the 2020 election results while refusing to turn over evidence that foreign actors stoked the very same flames that the Office identifies as inculpatory in the indictment,” his lawyers continued. “The Office cannot rely on selected guidance and judgments by officials it favors from the Intelligence Community and law enforcement while ignoring evidence of political bias in those officials’ decision-making as well as cyberattacks and other interference, both actual and attempted, that targeted critical infrastructure and election facilities before, during, and after the 2020 election.”