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A newly unsealed filing reveals additional evidence in Special Counsel Jack Smith‘s election conspiracy case against former President Donald Trump.
The filing details the extent to which a bevy of advisers, including Vice President Mike Pence, sought to convince Trump that his challenge to the 2020 presidential election would not succeed and that it lacked evidence, but the then-president went ahead with his election rigging claims anyway.
In one instance, according to the filing, a White House staffer overheard Trump tell family members that “it doesn’t matter if you won or lost the election. You still have to fight like hell.”
Smith and his team wrote that at trial, they intended to show that, in some instances, Trump and his team “made up figures from whole cloth.”
In another instance, an unidentified Trump aide, described only as a “campaign operative,” was told by a colleague at a Detroit, MI vote counting center that they thought a batch of ballots would be in Biden’s favor, the operative said to “find a reason it isn’t.” “When the colleague suggested that there was about to be unrest reminiscent of the Brooks Brothers riot, a violent effort to stop the vote count in Florida after the 2000 presidential election,” the campaign operative “responded, ‘Make them riot!’ and ‘Do it!'”
Read the Trump election conspiracy filing.
Smith filed the 165-page document with U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan to lay out what parts of his case against Trump do not fall within official acts while he was president. Smith’s case — in which Trump was charged with four counts of conspiring to remain in power after the 2020 election — was put on hold as the Supreme Court weighed whether the former president had immunity from prosecution. The justices ruled 6-3 that Trump was immune for official acts as president, sending the case back to Chutkan’s court for revision.
More to come.
