Judge Tanya Chutkan took a jab at Donald Trump on Friday as she denied a key motion his team filed to strike some language from his federal indictment in Washington about his alleged efforts to subvert the 2020 election result that culminated in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
Trump’s team took issue with portions of the indictment that they argued could pollute a jury pool, specifically portions that asserted that insurrectionists traveled to D.C. to physically stop the certification of the 2020 election at the former president’s behest.
One of the sentences that Trump’s team flagged as prejudicial stated that a “large and angry crowd—including many individuals whom [Trump] had deceived into believing the Vice President could and might change the election results—violently attacked the Capitol and halted the proceeding.”
