Jack Smith is fed up with Trump's repeated attempts to delay his Jan. 6 trial in DC
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- Jack Smith is quickly losing patience with Trump's efforts to delay his trial in Washington, DC.
- "The Court should deny the defendant's latest attempt at delay," prosecutors wrote in response to a motion from Trump's lawyers.
- They also alluded to Trump's repeated requests for special treatment based on his status as a former president.
Former President Donald Trump's defense team filed a motion in his federal January 6 case seeking more time to file documents in support of their other motions.
And special counsel Jack Smith has no patience for it.
"The Court should deny the defendant's latest attempt at delay," prosecutors wrote in a new filing. They added that it "does not establish good cause for any of his requested extensions."
The defense had accused Smith's office of filing an "oversized" 64-page response to a previous motion from the defense. But prosecutors noted that their "oversized" filing was one page shorter than the motion it was responding to.
It was also 26 pages shorter than what they were entitled to file under the court's rules.
Trump "mentions that the Government filed 'an oversized, 64-page omnibus response' to his 65 pages' worth of motions to dismiss based on constitutional and statutory grounds, wrongly implying that the Government's single, organized opposition imposes some greater burden on him than the two separate 45-page filings the Government was entitled to file under the Local Rules," prosecutors said.
They also alluded to Trump's requests for special treatment given his status as a former president.
Trump said "he needs more time because he is appealing" a previous court order, "but the defendant should not be permitted to derail the pretrial schedule by pointing to the rapid appellate consideration few other defendants enjoy," prosecutors wrote in their Monday filing.
A grand jury indicted Trump in August on four charges connected to the Capitol riot. Trump has pleaded not guilty, and his trial is scheduled to kick off in March.