On Wednesday, a federal judge unsealed a redacted document sports go through Special Advisor Jack Smith Detailed evidence against former president Donald Trump in his Criminal election interference case in washington d.c.
Smith filed the 165-page document as part of his argument that despite Trump’s defeat in the 2020 election, he could still be prosecuted for his efforts to overturn his election defeat. Supreme Court It was ruled in July that he had a presumption presidential immunityor official action.
Judge Tanya Chutkan released the document less than five weeks before Republican nominee Trump will face off against the vice president Kamala HarrisDemocratic candidates in the 2024 presidential election.
If Trump wins the election, he will have the power to order Ministry of Justice The criminal case against him was dismissed.
“Defendant claims he is immune from prosecution for his criminal scheme to overturn the 2020 presidential election because, he claims, it involved official conduct. This is not the case,” Smith’s office said in the filing.
“Although Defendant was a sitting president during the period of the alleged conspiracy, his scheme was essentially a private scheme,” the document states. “Defendant worked with a team of private co-conspirators as he engaged in multiple criminal tactics, through fraud and deception. He acted as a candidate in order to disrupt the government’s function of collecting and counting votes – a function in which the defendant, as president, has no official role.
Chatkan should reject arguments that Trump is immune from any remaining allegations barred by the Supreme Court ruling, the filing said.
The motion says that after the November election, as Trump “claimed without evidence (ballot fraud), his personal operatives sought to sow confusion rather than seek clarification at polling places where states continued to count votes.”
The document states that on November 4, 2020, a Trump campaign employee and “co-conspirator” tried to cause chaos in the vote counting at the TCF Center in Detroit, Michigan, which “appeared to be detrimental to Trump.”
Employee names were redacted in the document, which contains many such changes to personal names and other details.
When a colleague of the unidentified campaign staffer told the person that a batch of ballots appeared to heavily support Joe Biden, the staffer responded by “finding a reason not to support” and “giving me the option of filing a lawsuit.” Even if it (is nonsense),” the document said.
“When colleagues suggested that there would be Brooks Brothers-style riots during the 2000 election count in Florida, campaign staff “responded with ‘Let them riot’ and ‘Do it!
The document also provides numerous examples of how then-Vice President Mike Pence allegedly tried to “gradually and gently” persuade Trump to accept his election defeat.
Documents show that on November 7, 2020, when major news media reported on Biden’s campaign, Pence “tried to encourage” Trump, saying “you gave life to a dying party.”
During a private lunch on Nov. 12, Pence offered Trump a way to end the challenge while saving face: “Don’t concede, but acknowledge that (the) process is over,” prosecutors wrote.
Four days later, Pence allegedly tried to urge Trump to accept the election results and run again in 2024 during another private lunch.
“I don’t know, 2024 is still far away,” Trump responded, according to the documents.
The document states that on December 21, Pence allegedly “encouraged” Trump “not to view this election as ‘a failure—just a pause.'”
Later that day, Trump asked Pence in the Oval Office: “What do you think we should do?”
Pence responded that if all options were exhausted and “we still fell short, (the defendants) should take a bow,” according to the documents.
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