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We know you are, gimptard.It's a superceding indictment where Smith tries an end run around the SCOTUS immunity ruling in the DC case by omitting some privileged witnesses and testimony before the grand jury on the same charges.
I don't see how it couldn't be tainted given all the press coverage over the past months. Smith says it's not, but... really? Does he think the courts and the people are stupid?
Don't answer that.
I'm fairly positive that Trump will move to have the new indictment dismissed on immunity and procedural grounds. The immunity issue should be obvious and the procedural grounds are murky. The new indictment seeks to keep the current charges but reduces the evidentiary allegations which support them. Something which is easily done by the trial court, which is currently working on that, and doesn't need a grand jury indictment to do it for the court.
What that smacks of is Smith attempting to preserve his case by not letting the trial court do its job and review the allegations and evidence for those allegations based on whether the evidence is privileged or not. This is bad ju ju. Not only does the trial court not need this help, but it comes after Smith refuses the "mini trial" option regarding the question on whether the evidence is privileged or not.
There will likely be motion filings on this issue so the court is still going to have to go through the evidence, hear testimony on it in some manner (probably written) and make a decision on whether the evidence/testimony is privileged or not. So Smith's ploy isn't going to work in the long run.
It might even get him sanctioned by the court since he had to have known he had empaneled a new grand jury but didn't inform the court and allowed the court to move forward on its evidentiary review. This is called bad faith.
And, if Trump's appeal based on the immunity decision is successful, all this does is open Smith up to more liability for malpractice because it shows that he's not motivated by justice and is instead acting out of malice.
All in all, this was a stupid move.