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(NewsNation) — Former President Donald Trump called the unsealing of documents successful the predetermination interference lawsuit a "weaponization of the government" during an exclusive interrogation with NewsNation connected Wednesday successful Houston, Texas.
The Republican nominee was astatine a backstage fundraiser erstwhile helium told NewsNation that peculiar counsel Jack Smith is simply a "deranged person" due to the fact that helium mislaid the documents case.
"This was a weaponization of the authorities ... and released 30 days earlier the election," Trump said exclusively to NewsNation. "My canvass numbers person gone up alternatively of down. It is axenic predetermination interference."
The interrogation came aft prosecutors successful a tribunal filing unsealed Wednesday said Trump “resorted to crimes” aft losing the 2020 predetermination by disregarding the proposal of his vice president and different aides.
The filing was submitted by peculiar counsel Jack Smith’s squad pursuing a Supreme Court sentiment that conferred wide immunity connected erstwhile presidents for authoritative acts they instrumentality successful office, narrowing the scope of the prosecution charging Trump with conspiring to overturn the results of the predetermination helium mislaid to Democrat Joe Biden.
“So what?” the filing quotes Trump arsenic telling an adjutant aft being alerted that his vice president, Mike Pence, was successful imaginable information aft a assemblage of convulsive supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol connected Jan. 6, 2021.
Earlier connected Truth Social, Trump alleged that the documents were unsealed a time aft the vice statesmanlike debate truthful that the quality sum would not absorption connected "Tim Walz’s disastrous statement performance."
The archetypal and only vice statesmanlike debate betwixt Republican vice statesmanlike nominee Sen. JD Vance of Ohio and Democratic vice statesmanlike nominee Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota was civil, with each vice statesmanlike campaigner sharing their thoughts connected however their moving mate whitethorn govern.
"The radical cognize it, I cognize it, everybody knows it," Trump told NewsNation alleging Democrats are trying to rig the 2024 election.
The merchandise of the documents "is different evident effort by the Harris-Biden authorities to undermine and Weaponize American Democracy, and INTERFERE IN THE 2024 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION," helium said.
The filing from Smith’s squad offers the astir broad presumption to day of what prosecutors mean to beryllium if the lawsuit charging Trump with conspiring to overturn the predetermination reaches trial.
Though a months-long legislature probe and the indictment itself person chronicled successful stark item Trump’s efforts to undo the election, the caller filing cites antecedently chartless accounts offered by Trump’s closest aides to overgarment a representation of an “increasingly desperate” president who portion losing his grip connected the White House “used deceit to people each signifier of the electoral process.”
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
