🚨 Jack Smith special counsel evidence against Trump unsealed 🚨

Was just creating a thread on this.

Full filing here - https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.258148/gov.uscourts.dcd.258148.252.0.pdf
Chutkan gave Trump and his legal team until Tuesday to respond to the special counsel's request to make the brief public, with redactions. While the former president opposed Smith's bid to file the document publicly, she granted Smith's request to do so and ordered it to be made available on the public docket.
Via CBS https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-2020-election-filing-special-counsel-jack-smith/
 
Smith nails the opening

When the defendant lost the 2020 presidential election, he resorted to crimes to try to stay
in office. With private co-conspirators, the defendant launched a series of increasingly desperate plans to overturn the legitimate election results in seven states that he had lost—Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin (the “targeted states”). His efforts included lying to state officials in order to induce them to ignore true vote counts; manufacturing
fraudulent electoral votes
in the targeted states; attempting to enlist Vice President Michael R. Pence, in his role as President of the Senate, to obstruct Congress’s certification of the election by using the defendant’s fraudulent electoral votes; and when all else had failed, on January 6, 2021,
directing an angry crowd of supporters to the United States Capitol to obstruct the congressional certification. The throughline of these efforts was deceit: the defendant’s and co-conspirators’ knowingly false claims of election fraud
 
I was dismayed go see that DonOld Trump was not re-indicted for his conspiracy with that toady Jeff Clark in the Attorney General's office to attempt to remain in office
I'll take solace in the fact that Jeffy Clark was sanctioned and disbarred for two years for his actions attempt to overthrow the election but the fact remains that the Supreme Court gave Trump "immunity" for his criminal "official acts" regarding his role in this conspiracy.
 

Jack Smith Filing—Five Biggest Bombshells


'Make Them Riot': Trump Staffer Encourages Riot In Detroit

On November 4, 2020, when vote tallies were not going Trump's way in Detroit, a campaign staffer texted a Trump operative to get a riot going among his supporters outside the counting center.

"Make them riot" he allegedly texted, and "Do it!!!!"

'So What?': 'Incensed' Trump Didn't Care As Protesters Hunted Mike Pence On January 6

A White House aide ran to Trump to tell the then-president that he had just received a phone call informing him that Pence had been taken to a secure location "in hopes that (Trump) would take action to ensure Pence's safety."

Trump replied: "So what?" and didn't appear concerned for Pence's safety as the rioters walked around the Capitol building looking for the vice president.

F****** Nuts': RNC Chairwoman Tells Trump His Election Fraud Report Is Worthless

In mid-December 2020, Trump spoke with Republican National Committee chairwoman Ronna McDaniel and "asked her to publicize and promote a private report that had been released on December 13 that purported to identify flaws" in the use of voting machines in Antrim County, Michigan.

She refused, telling Trump that she had already discussed the report with Michigan's Speaker of the House, "who had told her the report was inaccurate."

McDaniel conveyed to Trump the Michigan speaker's "exact assessment: the report was f******* nuts," the filing states.

'It Doesn't Matter if You Won Or Lost': Trump's Pep Talk to Family

Trump was traveling with his family on the presidential helicopter Marine One with First Lady Melania, his daughter Ivanka, and son-in-law Jared Kushner, after the election. Also on board was an unnamed White House official who was assistant to the president and the director of Oval Office operations.

The White House official is willing to testify that Trump told his family: "It doesn't matter if you won or lost the election. You still have to fight like hell."

'F*** His Lawyer': Steve Bannon Rants As Mike Pence's Attorney Seeks To Restore Order

After the election, Trump and his allies tried multiple times to get Pence on board with their unfounded claims of voter fraud. Pence's lawyer, Greg Jacob, was also "totally against us", one Trump operative said.

On hearing this, former White House chief strategist, Steve Bannon said, "F*** his lawyer", the document states

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-tru...aud-evidence-white-house-steve-bannon-1963105
 

5 revelations from unprecedented filing in Trump Jan. 6 case


Trump showed disregard for Pence’s safety

When an aide alerted Trump that the vice president had been taken to a secure location, he replied only, “So what?”

As former White House attorney Pat Cipollone approached the Oval Office to share that news, he bumped into Meadows.

“And Mark had responded something to the effect of, ‘You heard him, Pat, he thinks Mike deserves it. He doesn’t think they’re doing anything wrong,’” Hutchinson testified.

Trump’s knowledge of false election claims

They write that Trump was given “the unvarnished truth” about losing the election but continued to make false claims despite being told they were untrue by close campaign advisors.

Multiple aides told him he would be unable to mount successful legal challenges to the election and warned that Trump would be unable to prove his allegations in court.

“The details don’t matter,” Trump is said to have responded.

Pence-Trump conversations

During that meeting Trump apparently said “when there’s fraud the rules get changed, telling Pence to “be bold” and that “this whole thing is up to MP.”

Trump also told Pence that he had the “r[igh]t to do whatever you want to do” and again falsely claimed to have won various states by hundreds of thousands of votes.

Chaos at the polls

In the weeks after the election, Trump’s team sought to “create chaos” at polling places where votes were still being tabulated, Smith revealed in the filing.

The colleague suggested unrest would follow, to which the campaign employee replied: “Make them riot” and “Do it!!!”

Ronna McDaniel’s role

During a meeting with Michigan GOP leaders, Trump dialed McDaniel into the call, despite her request not to participate on the advice of legal counsel who warned it could be viewed as lobbying, per the filing.


A month later, Trump spoke with McDaniel and asked her to promote a private report that claimed to identify flaws in the use of voting machines in a Michigan county. She resisted, telling the former president that she had discussed it with Michigan’s House Speaker, then Lee Chatfield, who gave a stark assessment: the report was “f–king nuts.”

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4913884-trump-election-subversion-case/
 
Special counsel Jack Smith provides fullest picture yet of his 2020 election case against Trump in new filing

FBI knows how Trump used his phone on January 6

FBI experts have mapped out what Trump was doing on his phone while the US Capitol riot unfolded.

An FBI Computer Analysis Response Team forensic examiner can testify about “the news and social media applications” on Trump’s phone, Smith wrote in the filing, “and can describe the activity occurring on the phone throughout the afternoon of January 6.”

Those logs show that Trump “was using his phone, and in particular, was using the Twitter application, consistently throughout the day after he returned from the Ellipse speech.”

Prosecutors frame Trump conversations with Pence as between ‘running mates’

Even as they face a high bar for introducing evidence from Pence, Smith’s team sought to do so by framing a series of interactions between the two as conversations between “running mates,” where Pence tried to convince Trump he needed to accept his electoral defeat.

They include a November 7, 2020, conversation where Pence allegedly told Trump that he should focus on how he revived the Republican Party, as well as Pence’s recollection of a Trump meeting with campaign staff, during which Trump was told the prospects of his election challenges looked bleak.

At a November 12 lunch, Pence told Trump that he didn’t have to concede but he could “recognize process is over,” prosecutors said, and during a November 23 phone call, Trump allegedly told Pence that one of his private attorneys were skeptical about the election challenges.

Trump personally tweeted Pence ‘didn’t have the courage’ to overturn election

Trump personally posted the tweet that Pence “didn’t have the courage” to overturn the election results, prosecutors say.

The revelation comes as part of Smith’s argument as to why the tweet, posted after the riot began, should be considered a private act and therefore not protected under presidential immunity.

The post targeting Pence was “a matter of intense personal concern to the defendant as a candidate for office,” Smith wrote. At the time he posted the tweet, prosecutors say Trump knew his request for Pence to block the Electoral College votes was illegal; knew that his supporters gathered in Washington, DC, believed his lies during his speech at the Ellipse that the election had been stolen; and knew that those supporters had now breached the Capitol building.

“It was at that point — alone, watching news in real time, and with knowledge that rioters had breached the Capitol building — that the defendant issued the 2:24 p.m. Tweet attacking Pence for refusing the defendant’s entreaties to join the conspiracy and help overturn the results of the election,” Smith wrote.

Trump told family: ‘It doesn’t matter if you won or lost the election’

Prosecutors allege they have a witness who will testify that Trump told family members, “It doesn’t matter if you won or lost the election. You still have to fight like hell.”

The witness, Smith’s team said in the filing, will testify that he was aboard Marine One when then-President Trump made the statement to his wife, Melania Trump, his daughter Ivanka Trump, and his son-in-law Jared Kushner.

Prosecutors did not name the official in the filing, but they said he was the director of Oval Office operations. “He witnessed an unprompted comment that the defendant made to his family members in which the defendant suggested that he would fight to remain in power regardless of whether he had won the election,” prosecutors wrote.

Trump told advisers he would declare victory

One private political adviser, three days before Election Day 2020, described Trump’s plan as: “He’s going to declare victory. That doesn’t mean he’s the winner, he’s just going to say he’s the winner,” according to the filing.

Trump sought to ‘perpetuate himself in power’

Smith’s office stressed the private and political nature of Trump’s actions around the 2020 election.

“The executive branch,” prosecutors wrote, “has no authority or function to choose the next president.”

White House staffer ‘P9’ details planning meetings

Prosecutors focus in particular in the filing on what Trump learned from a White House staffer referred to in the filings as “P9,” as they try to show that Trump was well aware he had lost the election as he pressed on with the reversal schemes.

The person, identified only as “P9,” appears to have personally had discussions over the phone about the fake electors strategy with Trump, and had repeated text conversations with other people in the campaign about how the strategy was “crazy” or “illegal,” according to the filing.

Prosecutors say they would call election officials in battleground states at Trump trial

In the filing released Wednesday, prosecutors identify witnesses they hope to call at a trial to testify against Trump – including election officials in battleground states and his White House deputy chief of staff.

The prosecutors say they also want to show a jury at trial Trump’s campaign speech on January 4, 2021, in Georgia, and his campaign speech on the Ellipse on January 6, 2021, just before the riot at the US Capitol.

And, they’d like to show the jury tweets that they say can prove Trump was driving the public campaign of fraud in the election, as he knew there was none that was widespread enough to overturn his loss. They argue those tweets weren’t part of Trump’s official work as president.

Secret Service was warned about Pence’s safety, prosecutors say

According to prosecutors, the Secret Service was warned about Trump threatening to criticize Pence if he failed to overthrow the election results.

On January 5, 2021, Trump once again met with Pence to allegedly try to pressure him not to certify the Electoral College votes. In that meeting, the special counsel wrote that Trump threatened to criticize him publicly.

Smith says that Pence told someone identified only as “P8” about that comment, and that P8 was so concerned by the prospect that he alerted Pence’s Secret Service detail.

Prosecutors lean on Hatch Act to bolster Trump charges

Smith is again using the Hatch Act – which limits the political activities of federal employees – to bolster the 2020 election subversion charges against Trump.

Prosecutors said in the filing that the Hatch Act allows White House staffers to “wear two hats,” separating out their official conduct to serve the public from their political conduct to help a candidate.

Therefore, even if some of Trump’s alleged wrongdoing occurred on White House grounds and in front of White House staff, he doesn’t have immunity because that fell under the “political” umbrella, Smith’s team wrote.

‘Make them riot’ and ‘create chaos’

Prosecutors also raised the fracas at the Detroit Counting Center, pointing to evidence that a campaign staffer, upon learning a heavy incoming batch of votes leaned Biden, asked for “options to file litigation” even if (it) was “itbis[sic}.”

The same campaign operative said “make them riot” when told that protests at the counting center were heading in the direction of the so-called Brooks Brothers Riot that disrupted the 2000 Florida count between Al Gore and George W. Bush.

Bill Barr decided to speak out against Trump’s election lies after seeing him on Fox News

Then-Attorney General Bill Barr decided in 2020 to publicly rebut Trump’s false claims that the election was rigged after watching Trump spread these lies on Fox News, prosecutors say.

“On November 29, [Barr] saw the defendant appear on the Maria Bartiromo Show and claim, among other false things, that the Justice Department was ‘missing in action’ and had ignored evidence of fraud,” prosecutors wrote.

They continued, “[Barr] decided it was time to speak publicly in contravention of the defendant’s false claims, set up a lunch with a reporter for the Associated Press, and made his statement.”


https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/02/politics/jack-smith-donald-trump-filing/index.html
 
Different sites, different flavors but a lot of the same bits of meat.
 
Different sites, different flavors but a lot of the same bits of meat.
More lawfare, more election interference. Judge Chutkan's only reason for unsealing the indictment was to influence the election, to arm main stream media with wild anti Trump headlines to cast Trump in a negative way just before the elections. Happens every election cycle. More unethical behavior from the DoJ and the court system. Trial by public opinion over a fair trial: SAD! Trump counsel has till 2 days after the election to respond, the only reason to unseal at this time is blatant election interference. DoJ can't follow their own rules. Dems are an evil crowd, will stoop to any unethical behavior to win. Harris is an empty suit and will lose.
 
More lawfare, more election interference. Judge Chutkan's only reason for unsealing the indictment was to influence the election, to arm main stream media with wild anti Trump headlines to cast Trump in a negative way just before the elections. Happens every election cycle. More unethical behavior from the DoJ and the court system. Trial by public opinion over a fair trial: SAD! Trump counsel has till 2 days after the election to respond, the only reason to unseal at this time is blatant election interference. DoJ can't follow their own rules. Dems are an evil crowd, will stoop to any unethical behavior to win. Harris is an empty suit and will lose.

You're an uninformed idiot, traitor.
 
More lawfare, more election interference. Judge Chutkan's only reason for unsealing the indictment was to influence the election, to arm main stream media with wild anti Trump headlines to cast Trump in a negative way just before the elections. Happens every election cycle. More unethical behavior from the DoJ and the court system. Trial by public opinion over a fair trial: SAD! Trump counsel has till 2 days after the election to respond, the only reason to unseal at this time is blatant election interference. DoJ can't follow their own rules. Dems are an evil crowd, will stoop to any unethical behavior to win. Harris is an empty suit and will lose.
Just ... not serious.
 
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