Prosecutors accuse Trump of ‘using crimes’ to stay in power | Donald Trump facing justice

Donald Trump laid the groundwork to try to overturn the 2020 election before he even lost, knowingly made false claims of voter fraud and “resorted to crimes” in his failed attempt to cling to power, according to a prosecutors’ legal file recently made public.

The filing from special prosecutor Jack Smith’s team offers the most comprehensive view yet of what prosecutors intend to prove if the case accusing Mr. Trump of conspiring to overturn the election comes to fruition. a trial.

Although a months-long congressional investigation and the indictment itself have chronicled Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the election in great detail, the new filing cites previously unknown accounts offered by closest collaborators of the billionaire to paint the portrait of a president more and more desperate who, while losing his grip on the White House, used deception to target each stage of the electoral process.

According to the file, Donald Trump allegedly said and then? to an aide, after being alerted that his vice president, Mike Pence, was in potential danger because a mob of violent supporters had stormed the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.

Mr. Trump also reportedly said that the details don’t matter when an advisor told him that a lawyer mounting his legal challenges would not be able to prove the false allegations in court, the filing says.

The document was filed, initially under seal, after a Supreme Court opinion that granted broad immunity to former presidents for official acts they performed in office, narrowing the scope of lawsuits charging Donald Trump for conspiring to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

The purpose of this filing is to convince Judge Tanya Chutkan that the offenses charged in the indictment are private acts, rather than official ones, and therefore can remain part of the indictment as the The matter is progressing. Ms. Chutkan has authorized the publication of a cleaned-up version.

Although Defendant was the incumbent President at the time of the alleged plots, his plan was fundamentally privateMr. Smith’s team wrote, adding: When the defendant lost the 2020 presidential election, he resorted to crimes in an attempt to remain in office.

Mr. Trump’s campaign spokesman, Steven Cheung, called the filing lying et inconstitutionnel and repeated the oft-repeated allegations that Special Prosecutor Smith and the Democrats were determined to use the Department of Justice as a weapon in an attempt to cling to power.

The release of the lie-filled and unconstitutional J6 filing immediately after Tim Walz’s disastrous debate performance is another clear attempt by the Harris-Biden regime to undermine American democracy and interfere in this election.

The file includes details of conversations between Messrs. Trump and Pence, including a private lunch the two men had on November 12, 2020, during which Mike Pence reiterated a face-saving option for Donald Trump, telling him not to concede, but to recognize that the process is overaccording to prosecutors.

At another private lunch a few days later, Mr. Pence urged Mr. Trump to accept the results of the election and run again in 2024.

I don’t know, 2024 is so far awayMr. Trump replied, according to the file.

More Donald Trump ignored M. Pence just as he ignored dozens of court rulings that unanimously rejected his legal claims and those of his allies, and ignored targeted state officials – including those in his own party – who publicly stated that he lost and that his specific fraud allegations were falseprosecutors wrote.

The constant flow of misinformation of Mr. Trump in the weeks following the election culminated with his speech on the morning of January 6, 2021, in which he used these lies to inflame and motivate the large and angry crowd of his supporters to march to the Capitol and disrupt the certification process, prosecutors wrote.