Former President Donald Trump expressed his frustration towards Judge Tanya S. Chutkan in an indignant Truth Social post on Sunday.
Trump voiced his intentions to request an immediate recusal of Chutkan, who was assigned to his case following the Department of Justice’s charges against him for his alleged attempts to overturn the 2020 election earlier this week.
“THERE IS NO WAY I CAN GET A FAIR TRIAL WITH THE JUDGE ‘ASSIGNED’ TO THE RIDICULOUS FREEDOM OF SPEECH/FAIR ELECTIONS CASE,” he exclaimed online. “EVERYBODY KNOWS THIS, AND SO DOES SHE!”
“WE WILL BE IMMEDIATELY ASKING FOR RECUSAL OF THIS JUDGE ON VERY POWERFUL GROUNDS, AND LIKEWISE FOR VENUE CHANGE, OUT IF D.C.,” he concluded.
Trump has pleaded not guilty to charges of four counts of conspiring to defraud the United States, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstructing an official proceeding and unlawfully depriving voters of their civil rights.
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This upcoming conspiracy case won’t be Chutkan’s first encounter with the former president.
The judge, appointed by President Barack Obama, previously denied Trump’s 2021 request to withhold documents from a House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol that year.
She also has a reputation for handing out severe sentences to right-wing rioters, and has referred to the incident as “an attempt of a violent mob to prevent the orderly and peaceful transfer of power from one administration to the next.”
Trump has also expressed dissatisfaction with being prosecuted in Washington, D.C., which he described as a “high crime embarrassment” to the nation in a Truth Social post last week.
“IMPOSSIBLE to get a fair trial in Washington, D.C., which is over 95% anti-Trump, & for which I have called for a Federal TAKEOVER in order to bring our Capital back to Greatness,” he wrote.
An initial court date for the case has not been scheduled.