U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn) is joining other Republican colleagues in crying foul over the recently released information against former President Donald Trump by Department of Justice (DOJ) special counsel Jack Smith one month away from the presidential election.
U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia Judge Tanya Chutkan unsealed Smith's filings on Wednesday. The documents lay out supposed evidence Smith intends to use in an eventual trial against Trump for election interference.
The newest iteration of charges alleged by Smith in August claims Trump, along with co-conspirators, undertook a criminal scheme to overturn the 2020 election. Smith's several attempts to indict Trump on various charges have repeatedly drawn accusations of election interference and DOJ weaponization from Trump supporters and others.
"[Trump's] efforts included lying to state officials in order to induce them to ignore true vote counts; manufacturing fraudulent electoral votes in the targeted states; attempting to enlist Vice President Michael R. Pence, in his role as President of the Senate, to obstruct Congress's certification of the election by using the defendant's fraudulent electoral votes; and when all else had failed, on January 6, 2021, directing an angry crowd of supporters to the United States Capitol to obstruct the congressional certification," Smith's filing reads.
On a Wednesday night appearance on Newsmax TV's "Rob Schmitt Tonight," Tuberville slammed the release, calling Smith a "political hack" and saying the filing was released to distract from Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz's poor debate performance.
"Well, he's a political hack," Tuberville said. "We all know that. He's bought and paid for, but at the end of the day, President Trump's going to come out on top on this."
He continued, "At the end of the day, the Jack Smith guy—he doesn't have anything to go on. He knows that. He's just trying to push a political narrative, and again, as you said, after the debacle last night, this debate, they're trying every way they possibly can to get that off TV and get it out of the news for the next 24 hours."
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