Judge Chutkan Rejects Mysterious 'Victor Shorkin' Motion

A collection of curious third-party motions appeared in the filings under the U.S. case against former President Donald Trump on Tuesday night, including one from "Victor Shorkin."

The filing was rejected by U.S. Judge Tanya Chutkan, but its listing appears to incorrectly spell the name of Viktor Shokin, the Ukraine prosecutor whom then-Vice President Joe Biden had ordered to be fired at the threat of having $1 billion in loan guarantees withheld.

The document was not released.

"LEAVE TO FILE DENIED- Motion for Judicial Notice Affidavit of Victor Shorkin as to DONALD J. TRUMP," the listing read. "This document is unavailable as the Court denied its filing.

"Although Courts have in rare instances exercised their discretion to permit third-party submissions in criminal cases, neither the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedures nor the Local Rules contemplate the filing of amicus curiae briefs.

"At this time, the court does not find it necessary to depart from the ordinary procedures course by permitting this filing."

Notably, that Chutkan decision was signed Monday, Aug. 21, but it was only registered in the online listing as dated Tuesday, Aug. 29, after Monday's status hearing – a transcript of which will be released redacted Sept. 28.

Chutkan rejected five other third-party motions, including ones from "D.A. Feliciano" and the "Galaxy Bar Association."

The name of "Shorkin" is an interesting one, because it was the firing of Shokin by then-Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in late 2015 that has embroiled Trump and Biden's 2020 presidential election campaign.

Shokin was investigation Burisma owner Mykola Zlochevsky, who is alleged to have paid an estimated $10 million to Hunter Biden and his businesses for "regulatory" influence in America, according to former associate Devon Archer.

The U.S. case against Trump is related to his 2020 presidential election challenge and the events of Jan. 6, when a U.S. Capitol protest turned violent and effectively ended the debate on Trump's contesting Biden's Electoral College victory.

Once order was restored, Republicans dropped their constitutionally permitted calls for debate on election integrity and certified Biden as president-elect.

The motion from the misspelled "Victor Shorkin" is just the latest in curious filings on Trump's ongoing legal proceedings.

A document from a notorious forger in a North Carolina federal prison claimed to have been from the U.S. Treasury Department and including an alleged warrant ordering CNN to preserve "leaked tax records," the Washington Examiner reported.