SiriusXM’s Megyn Kelly said Thursday on her podcast that special counsel Jack Smith is performing “Cirque Du Soleil” acrobatics to turn his case against former President Donald Trump into a crime.
U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan unveiled Smith’s 165-page legal brief Wednesday, addressing the Supreme Court’s ruling on presidential immunity in the election interference case against Trump. On “The Megyn Kelly Show,” Kelly criticized Smith’s “paper trail” against Trump, noting the brief’s release comes with just under 35 days left before the election.
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“Jack Smith could not get his D.C. case before a jury prior to election day, the one before the woman who hates him, Judge Chutkan. He decided to lay it out through a paper trial against former president Trump in a new 165-page legal brief,” Kelly said. “Honestly, in some ways, this is even better than a trial because it’s just Jack Smith’s side of the story and no defenses whatsoever. And quotes that may be taken entirely out of context, in fact, appear to be, just to hurt Trump a month before people go to vote. Sure, this is totally legit and nonpartisan at all.”
“For those keeping score at home, this 165-page legal brief — that’s roughly three and a half times longer than the original indictment. Then Judge Chutkan unsealed it yesterday at Jack Smith’s request,” Kelly continued. “In this brief, Smith’s team argues over and over and over again that Trump’s scheme was a private criminal effort and resorted to crimes to overturn the election,” Kelly continued.
Kelly went on to state how the case against Trump has been repeatedly looked at by both the public and Smith for the last four years, highlighting how the case “lacks any context.”
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“Here’s my number one takeaway, Trump behaved terribly after he lost that election, and you’ve heard me say that from Election Day 2020 all the way forward. You’ve heard me defend Mike Pence — I know a lot of you disagree with me,” Kelly said. “That’s fine, we can disagree, we often do. But this is a private and a political matter, this is not a criminal matter. And Jack Smith is doing acrobatics, Cirque du Soleil level, to try to make this somehow a crime. Now he unveils this — in this dramatic, ‘Oh here it is. It’s unsealed, the public must see it before [election day].’”
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“It’s the same shit we have seen. We had an impeachment trial. We had a prime time week-long January 6th, you know, public condemnation trial. We’ve had January 6 witnesses leading the news on every other news station for years. We’ve had books written like we know, he behaved badly. All of it lacks any context, and I’m not saying it was at the same level, but lacks any context when it comes to Democratic efforts to overturn elections like Hillary Clinton, Stacy Abrams, there’s a long list. This is now just one guy who clearly can’t stand Donald Trump and his 165-page reasons why,” Kelly said.
Smith filed a motion in September to release the redacted version of his lengthy brief, with Trump’s attorneys arguing against it, claiming it would “amount to an improper motion for summary judgment in the court of public opinion.” However, the district judge wrote Wednesday that there was “no support” for the Trump attorneys’ claims.
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First published by the Daily Caller News Foundation.