WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump plans to use prosecutors' words in criminal cases against his fellow Jan. 6 defendants to undermine the special counsel's case against him, according to court filings submitted late Monday.
Jury selection in the first of four pending criminal cases against Trump is scheduled to begin in just over three months, on March 4.
Trump's lawyers pointed to prosecutors' words in other Jan. 6 cases in which defendants tried to blame Trump for their actions that day, saying prosecutors’ responses to those claims undermined the government’s current argument that Trump shares responsibility for what happened.
"Prosecutors from the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia (‘USAO-DC’) repeatedly took positions in public that are inconsistent with the Special Counsel’s new contention," Trump's attorneys wrote in a filing late Monday.
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In a discovery letter sent over Thanksgiving weekend, the special counsel's staff said it disagreed with the position laid out by Trump's team.
"The Department’s position in other January 6 cases that the defendant’s actions did not absolve any individual rioter of responsibility for that rioter’s actions — even if the rioter took them at the defendant’s direction — is in no way inconsistent with the indictment’s allegations here," it wrote.
The filings also suggest that Trump's team...
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