We finally got the very limited portion of the Georgia special grand jury report Thursday, and Donald Trump’s team wasted little time putting out a statement in response.
The problem with this statement, which came from a spokesman for Trump’s 2024 campaign, is that it’s nonsense.
Here’s how it starts:
The long awaited important sections of the Georgia report, which do not even mention President Trump’s name, have nothing to do with the President because President Trump did absolutely nothing wrong.
OK, let’s stop right there.
For one thing, the three sections that were released were hardly the “important” parts of the report. If anything, they might be the least important, since they don’t name anyone.
That makes the next part of that statement even more misleading, where it notes that the released sections “do not even mention President Trump’s name.” While that’s a true statement (congrats), the Trump team is counting on the person reading or hearing that statement being either uninformed or misinformed.
Team Trump’s statement reads like more of a paranoid confession — or at least a concern.
As a Deadline: Legal Blog reader and “Deadline: White House” viewer, you already knew that we weren’t expecting to see any names mentioned in Thursday’s limited release. Indeed, that was the whole point of Judge Robert McBurney’s ruling in keeping much of the report secret for now. That is, because the full report names people who haven’t been charged and couldn’t defend themselves, it would be unfair to release that part now, as Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis argued in court last month. So it’s unremarkable that the report portions that were released don’t name Trump — because they don’t name anyone.
Team Trump also claimed the released sections “have nothing to do with the President because President Trump did absolutely nothing wrong.” On the contrary, the grand jury’s report about 2020 election interference to overturn Trump’s loss has everything to do…
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