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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.
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.
Laffy