Jack Smith Makes Infuriating Move In Court To Hurt Trump - Former President Is Furious

Hey ladies and gentlemen this is Carmine Sabia for Explain America and Jack Smith he just made a horrible

horrible filing in court that seeks to tie former President Donald Trump's hands in his own defense

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really help us out and they help our channel continue to grow. You know if you have a strong

case then you're not really worried about what the defense is going to say or do because you have a

strong case. You know you're going to win. You know the facts are in your favor and you don't

care what the defendant says you know as long as you present your case, you present your facts

you're going to get that conviction that you seek. That's how a prosecutor thinks, unless that prosecutor's Jack Smith. See Jack Smith has a laundry list of things he doesn't

want Trump to be able to talk about in court and he wants the court to tie his hands because he's

terrified, terrified that the jury is going to hear what these things are that Trump has to say

and that Trump might win. So he wants the court to basically handcuff Trump in his own defense

and Trump of course is furious about this as he should be and he's railing against this filing

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for Explain America. We love you guys. God bless you. Take care everybody and now let's watch this

report. Out of the new move by special counsel Jack Smith this morning asking a judge to protect

the court ahead of his election subversion trial and make sure Donald Trump essentially doesn't

turn it into a political circus. CNN's Caitlin Polans has much more on this. She's joining us

now. Caitlin, what is Jack Smith asking for here? Kate, Jack Smith wants to cut out all of the

political arguments that Donald Trump makes out on the campaign trail from the courtroom for

whenever he is before a jury. Now one thing about this, that case is on pause right now. The case

in federal court where Donald Trump is set to be tried right now in March. There are appeals

ongoing but that doesn't mean that the Justice Department is sitting back and doing nothing

They continue to make court filings about what they want to happen in that case and the court

filing that came in today says a couple things. They want the judge to say Trump can't argue

that he was being politically persecuted. That's why he is going to be on trial

They don't want him to be able to put or suggest disinformation about the 2020 election, suggest

that he believed that the election was stolen from him. That shouldn't be something before the jury

the Justice Department says at this time. They also say that Trump's team should not be able

to blame law enforcement or foreign actors or secret agents for what happened on January 6th

Here's a quote from the filing. They say a bank robber cannot defend himself by blaming the bank's

security guard for failing to stop him. A fraud defendant cannot claim to the jury that his

victims should have known better than to fall for his schemes. And the defendant, Donald Trump

cannot argue the law enforcement should have prevented the violence he caused and obstruction

he intended on January 6th. So this is the key sketching out of the Justice Department of what

they want the trial to look like and what they want Trump not to be able to argue when it does

go before a jury. We're going to have to see when the judge weighs in on this, when that is even

possible, and also what the judge ultimately says here. I think this filing is really interesting

in how they lay it out and what he's asking for because it seems to get to some of what you would

assume is in the Trump defense, that he really did believe that the election was stolen and that's

why he moved the direction he—this is really interesting. It's good to see you, Caitlin. Thanks

for laying it out for us