Smith told the Washington federal court that Trump’s repeated attacks on Justice Department officials, the Washington public, and the judge in the case herself, Tanya Chutkan, could prejudice the jury pool, which is drawn from the local population.
Anyone reading or hearing Trump’s comments “may reasonably fear that they could be the next targets of the defendant’s attacks,” it said. Trump labelled Chutkan a “fraud” and “Trump-hating”, Smith’s office a “team of thugs”, and Washington “filthy and crime-ridden” with a population “over 95% anti-Trump.”
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