Judge Rejects Trump's Bid For Evidence On Foreign Interference In Election Case

U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan rejected most of former President Donald Trump's lawyer's attempts to compel prosecutors to hand over more evidence in their case, specifically dismissing his claims about foreign influence as a basis for his actions.

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Judge Tanya Chutkan rejected most of 's lawyer's attempts to compel prosecutors to hand over more evidence in their case.on Wednesday rejected the former president's claim that he was actually concerned about foreign influence and interference in the 2020 election — rather than the false claims about that he repeated in the weeks before "At best, then, Defendant might attempt to use information about these network breaches to argue that because of generic foreign cyberattacks unrelated to election results, he had reason to worry that foreign adversaries would interfere in the 2020 election, which in turn somehow gave him a good-faith basis to claim that forms," Chutkan wrote."That logic is too strained to meet Defendant’s burden.

Trump, she wrote,"does not provide anything more than speculation that there even were any such undercover actors at the Capitol on January 6" and there was no reason to compel the government to search for and produce that information. We have summarized this news so that you can read it quickly. If you are interested in the news, you can read the full text here.



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