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👉🏼👉🏼👀 “Special counsel #JackSmith has outlined new details of #Trump and his allies' sweeping and "increasingly desperate" efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss, in a blockbuster court filing aimed at defending Smith's prosecution of Trump following the Supreme Court's July immunity ruling.
3/ Via Phang:
BREAKING:
Judge Chutkan in Trump’s DC election interference case allows for Special Counsel Jack Smith to publicly file his redacted Motion for Immunity Determinations.
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.258148/gov.uscourts.dcd.258148.252.0_1.pdf
4/ Via Kyle Cheney:
1) A Trump campaign employee and alleged coconspirator sought to foment chaos at the TCF ballot processing center in Detroit.
2) Trump sidelined his campaign legal team on Nov. 13, putting Rudy #Giuliani (CC1) in charge because he was willing to lie about the election results.
5/ Cheney contd.
3) Smith says he plans to prove at trial that Trump and his allies made up claims about noncitizen voters out of whole cloth.
6/ More:
Pence told Trump he saw no evidence of outcome-determinative fraud. They had MANY conversations, some detailed in Pence's book, which prosecutors cite.
7/ Trump repeatedly promised to "package up" and provide evidence to Gov. Ducey, Gov. Kemp and Rusty Bowers re: election fraud but never did.
👀 Christina BOBB is now listed as co-conspirator 6
7/ Trump repeatedly promised to "package up" and provide evidence to Gov. Ducey, Gov. Kemp and Rusty Bowers re: election fraud but never did.
👀 Christina BOBB is now listed as co-conspirator 6
@GottaLaff This has to be giving him more butt-hurt than being steamrolled in his debate with MVP Harris.
Looking forward to his futile screaming.
10/ My numbering got messed up so you’ll have to find 7 in the thread. Ugh. I’m in the car on the way back from Washington using my damn phone
Added 7 to 6.
12/ Klasfeld:
In the days after Trump's defeat in November, Mike Pence gently nudged him to understand he lost, according to remarkable bullet points in Jack Smith's just-released immunity brief.
He "encouraged" Trump "not to look at the election 'as a loss — just an intermission."
15/ The special counsel's office:
"Working with a team of private co-conspirators, the defendant acted as a candidate when he pursued multiple criminal means to disrupt, through fraud and deceit, the government function by which votes are collected and counted — a function in which the defendant, as President, 👉🏼👉🏼had no official role."👈🏼👈🏼
16/ Klasfeld:
On Nov. 30, the day he signed the certificate formally declaring Biden's electors, Ducey received a call from Trump and Pence, according to the brief.
Prosecutors say Ducey pressed Trump on fraud claims, "eager to see the evidence," but Trump never provided it.
17/ The brief then shifts to Trump and Giuliani's pressure campaign on then-Arizona Speaker Rusty Bowers.
Rudy's reply to Bowers's "deep skepticism" of voter fraud lies: "well, you know, we're all kind of Republicans and need to be working together," per the brief.
18/ Trump asked RNC chairwoan Ronna McDaniel to meet with Michigan GOP leaders but she said she coudln't because it could be considered lobbying.
Trump dialed her in anyway.
Rudy tried to text a Michigan GOP leader a proposed resolution declaring the election in dispute -- but he sent it to a wrong number.👈🏼
20/ Griffin:
Jack Smith: Trump told [REDACTED] advisors before the 2020 election that he would simply declare victory before all the ballots were counted.
21/ Klasfeld:
In the middle of Rudy Giuliani peddling lies about "more than 10,000 dead voters" to the Georgia State Senate, Mark Meadows sent out text messages confirming that the campaign's lawyer debunked the fake stat, according to the new brief.
23/ 👉🏼Klasfeld:
Note on attrib of a quote making the rounds in Smith's brief:
The figure quoted saying “Make them riot” & “Do it!!!" is "P5."
That person is descr as "a Campaign employee, agent& co-conspirator" of Trump.
via @tristansnell:
devastating evidence of Trump directly leading the January 6 insurrection and attack on the Capitol
👉🏼Trump was warned there would be violence and replying: “Make them riot. Do it.”👈🏼
Jack Smith is now bringing the hammer down on Trump
24/ Griffin:
Jack Smith reinforces the 'private' acts:
"As President, the defendant had no official responsibilities related to the states' administration of the election or the appointment of their electors, and instead contacted state officials in his capacity as a candidate. Tellingly, the defendant contacted only state officials who were in his political party and were his political supporters, and only in states he had lost."
25/ TO REPEAT (via Griffin):
Smith: A Trump "campaign employee," when presented w information at a Detroit tabulation facility that a final batch from would heavily favor Biden, said, "find a reason it isn't," "give me options to file litigation."
"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, [PERSON 5] responded, 'Make them riot' and 'Do it!!!'"
26/ Jack Smith: After Trump's Twitter post focused the Jan. 6 mob on Mike Pence, an aide alerted him to the situation, hoping Trump would take action to ensure Pence's safety.
Instead, Trump looked at the aide and said only, "So what?" according to grand jury testimony newly disclosed.
27/ Jack Smith: One of Trump's lawyers gave him an "honest assessment" that his election lies would not hold up in court.
Trump seemed not to care.
"The details don't matter," the brief quotes Trump as saying.
28/ Jack Smith will argue Trump's conversations with Mike Pence should be entered into evidence.
"The Government … intends to introduce at trial evidence regarding conversations between the defendant and Pence in which they did not discuss Pence’s official responsibilities as President of the Senate and instead acted in their private capacities as running mates."
29/ Phang:
p. 79: "Beginning at about 1:30 pm [on Jan. 6th], [Trump] settled in the dining room off of the Oval Office. He spent the afternoon there reviewing Twitter on his phone, while the dining room television played Fox News’ contemporaneous coverage of events at the Capitol."
This, right here, is the lynchpin
@GottaLaff @tristansnell so Trump grifted and paid himself as an employee of his own campaign?
lmfao
@GottaLaff ok that nerdsniped me I just had to look that up and see what he said. It was a Star *Wars* reference ("Star Wars Bar", p52).
No biggie, thanks for summarizing this stuff Laffy - that's a lot of speed reading!
@GottaLaff
I can't find this in the document.
What was Trump's Star Trek reference???
@GottaLaff
Not finding it. :-(
Given Trek's super-liberal stance about Social Justice, I think it would be interesting to know what reference he made.
I searched the document and couldn't find Star Trek, Powell's name, Nov. 20 or November 20, Beam me up, etc.
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