Donald Trump faces a neatly packaged and nasty October surprise documenting his conduct leading up to the Jan. 6 insurrection from Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith.
After Thursday’s long-anticipated federal court hearing about Trump’s election interference case, the judge overseeing the case demanded prosecutors put together a formal report by Sept. 26 detailing why they believe Trump was acting as a private politician on Jan. 6 and not in his official capacity as president.
Prosecutors proposed filing such a report as a way to move the proceedings forward in light of the Supreme Court’s July opinion granting the former president an extensive and redefined version of presidential immunity.