So what?
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Smith submitted the sprawling legal brief to Chutkan last week, but it remained sealed until Wednesday. Over Trump’s objection, Chutkan publicly released a redacted version of the filing.
The filing contains details of private conversations Trump engaged in with Republican legislators and operatives throughout the post-election period in 2020, describing how they nearly all warned him that his allegations of election fraud were flimsy and false.
Smith also accuses Trump of intentionally stoking the fury of the mob that ransacked the Capitol and assaulted police on Jan. 6, 2021. Once Pence refused to join the alleged conspiracy, the special counsel alleges, Trump realized his only option to cling to power was to derail Congress’ certification of the Electoral College results on Jan. 6.
Smith reveals that Trump was alone in the Oval Office dining room when he issued an incendiary tweet about Pence during some of the most violent moments of the attack. Rioters — some of them chanting “hang Mike Pence!” — amplified the tweet, which accused Pence of lacking “the courage to do what should have been done.””
Jack Smith’s case.
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/10/02/jack-smith-trump-case-00182258
