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[janice shell]

I don't see what conceivable ammo it could give Trump. HE is the defense. The Daily Kos has nothing to do with him, or he with them. They didn't use some kind of wizardry to figure out the redactions. All but one of the CCs had already been identified. Anyone could have figured out who they were. They have, after all, appeared in other cases. Some have been criminally charged. Some of the witnesses, like Jenna Ellis, have also been criminally charges; she's pled guilty.

Many other witnesses are easy to recognize. We all know who the governors of Georgia and Arizona were, for example. Not to mention Tucker Carlson. Lots of familiar names.

And I imagine the AI Guy identified some of the witnesses through footnotes citing articles in which they were featured.

[blackhawks]

Trump Is Absolutely Fuming Over the Release of Bombshell Election Case Doc

OUTRAGED

The former president took to Truth Social to vent his anger over the release of documents filed by Special Counsel Jack Smith, then went straight to the press.

Matt Young Night Editor
Updated Oct. 03, 2024 6:25AM EDT

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Donald Trump is clearly not happy about the release of a bombshell 165-page motion Wednesday filed by Special Counsel Jack Smith which lays out a sprawling timeline of how the former president attempted to claw his way back into power after losing the 2020 election.

Trump initially laid out his case in various Truth Social posts later on Wednesday, claiming the unsealing of the document was another Democratic plot.

He then repeated many of those claims in an almost-two-minute rant with NewsNation Wednesday night, in which Trump bragged about winning the classified documents case in Florida, described Democratic opponent Kamala Harris as “more incompetent than Biden,” and claimed the accusations within the document are “nothing new.”

In his first response to the documents, the former president wrote: “The release of this falsehood-ridden, Unconstitutional, J6 brief immediately following Tim Walz’s disastrous Debate performance, and 33 days before the Most Important Election in the History of our Country, is another obvious attempt by the Harris-Biden regime to undermine and Weaponize American Democracy, and INTERFERE IN THE 2024 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.”

“Deranged Jack Smith, the hand picked Prosecutor of the Harris-Biden DOJ, and Washington, D.C. based Radical Left Democrats, are HELL BENT on continuing to Weaponize the Justice Department in an attempt to cling to power.”

Trump claimed his name is “dominating the Election cycle” and “leading in the Polls,” claiming the “Radical Democrats throughout the Deep State are totally ‘freaking out,’” without saying who he was quoting. “This entire case is a Partisan, Unconstitutional, Witch Hunt, that should be dismissed, entirely, just like the Florida case was dismissed!”

Trump then accused the Democratic party of being “guilty of the Worst Election Interference in American History” and of “Weaponizing the Justice Department against me because they know I am WINNING, and they are desperate to prop up their failing Candidate, Kamala Harris.”

He then raged against the Department of Justice and claimed in another post, “I didn’t rig the 2020 Election, they did!”

The unsealed documents in Trump’s election subversion case, made public by the presiding U.S. district judge Tanya Chutkan, is not a good look for Trump if the damning trove of allegations are to be believed. Included are Trump’s reaction to the news that his vice president, Mike Pence, had been safely moved to a secure location within the U.S. Capitol (“So what?”) and how Trump allegedly told wife Melania and daughter Ivanka, “It doesn’t matter if you won or lost the election. You still have to fight like hell.”

Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung seethed at the release of the document to Reuters, telling the outlet: “This entire case is a partisan, Unconstitutional Witch Hunt that should be dismissed entirely, together with ALL of the remaining Democrat hoaxes.” The Trump campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the Daily Beast.