Judge Denies Trump Motion to Subpoena for Missing J6 Records
Judge Tanya Chutkan, who is presiding over Special Counsel Jack Smith’s case against former President Donald Trump for 2020 election interference, this week denied a motion by the former president to seek materials he said the House Committee investigating January 6, 2021, had not turned over to the National Archives.
On Monday, Chutkan rejected Trump’s motion, accusing him of going on a “fishing expedition.”
“The broad scope of the records that Defendant seeks, and his vague description of their potential relevance, resemble less ‘a good faith effort to obtain identified evidence’ than they do a general ‘fishing expedition’ that attempts to use the [Rule 17(c) subpoena] as a discovery device,’” she wrote in her denial.
Trump last month sought to subpoena seven individuals, including then-committee Chairman Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS) and House Administration Subcommittee on Oversight Chairman Barry Loudermilk (R-GA), who said he did not receive all the records, as well as other government officials over what his legal team called “missing materials.”
Loudermilk had said in a letter in June that only written transcripts from the committee were transferred to the U.S. archives after it dissolved and that video recordings and transcribed interviews and depositions were not.
NEW: Judge Chutkan denies another defense motion in Jack Smith's J6 case against Trump. This will be death by a thousand cuts as she acts like Smith's rubber stamp.
Chutkan denies Trump's motion to subpoena parties w/knowledge of missing J6 committee records:
The irony… pic.twitter.com/Eej3KKIeA0
— Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) November 28, 2023
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