Legal analyst Sol Wisenberg said Friday on Fox Business that Judge Tanya Chutkan’s written explanation for not withholding special prosecutor Jack Smith’s evidence against former President Donald Trump was “Orwellian.”
The U.S. district judge released a set of redacted documents from Smith’s case against Trump, stating that, despite pushback from the former president, she believed it would be “election interference” not to publicly disclose the materials. On “The Evening Edit,” Wisenberg argued it would have been simpler for Chutkan to delay the litigation over Trump’s immunity until after the election, noting the “damage” had already been done by releasing Smith’s filing.
“I think her brief opinion was Orwellian, really,” Wisenberg said. “And really the damage had already been done by the judge. It would have been easy for her to say, ‘We’re not…
