Bombshell special counsel filing includes new allegations of Trump's 'increasingly desperate' efforts to overturn electi

[Uncle Joe]

Source: ABC News

Special counsel Jack Smith has outlined new details of former President Donald Trump and his allies' sweeping and "increasingly desperate" efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss, in a blockbuster court filing Wednesday aimed at defending Smith's prosecution of Trump following the Supreme Court's July immunity ruling.

Trump intentionally lied to the public, state election officials, and his own vice president in an effort to cling to power after losing the election, while privately describing some of the claims of election fraud as "crazy," prosecutors alleged in the 165-page filing.

"When the defendant lost the 2020 presidential election, he resorted to crimes to try to stay in office," the filing said. "With private co-conspirators, the defendant launched a series of increasingly desperate plans to overturn the legitimate election results in seven states that he had lost."

When Trump's effort to overturn the election through lawsuits and fraudulent electors failed to change the outcome of the election, prosecutors allege that the former president fomented violence, with prosecutors describing Trump as directly responsible for "the tinderbox that he purposely ignited on January 6."

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Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/US/bombshell-special-counsel-filing-includes-new-allegations-trumps/story?id=114409494

[roscoeroscoe]

1. Let's see the little cannon go

BOOM!!!

[Leghorn21]

14. Yeah, the way it used to back in the day!!

10, 15 years ago - ? Lordy, what we have been through, roscoe!

[Kid Berwyn]

2. Holy Smokes!!!!

From Jack Smith:

...In Trump v. United States, 144 S. Ct. 2312 (2024), the Supreme Court held that presidents are immune from prosecution for certain official conduct— including the defendant’s use of the Justice Department in furtherance of his scheme, as was alleged in the original indictment—and remanded to this Court to determine whether the remaining allegations against the defendant are immunized. The answer to that question is no.

Get yer own copy: chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.258148/gov.uscourts.dcd.258148.252.0.pdf

ETA: LOCK HIM UP!!!!

[orleans]

25. hey kid berwyn -- thank you for that pdf jack smith link! nt

[radical noodle]

3. Being covered extensively on Nicole Wallace's show

on MSNBC right now. This is really damning stuff.

[DemonGoddess]

4. WoW

[republianmushroom]

5. 44 months and counting

Lock the bastard up jack, and team,. Lock him up.

[JohnSJ]

6. VP Harris needs to bring this up during her 60 minutes interview.

No way will Trump have a second debate, nor will he reconsider a 60 minutes, or interview from a legitimate news outlet.

[hibbing]

7. "With private co-conspirators"

Well, I'm really curious who these traitors will turn out to be. It can't be members of his crime family since they were all part of the administration, as unqualified as they all were.

Hannity? Jesse Waters? Rush? Levin? Haha Leon?

Forward!

[FakeNoose]

8. John Eastman, Rudy Giuliani, Mark Meadows, Sidney Powell, several others

The jig is up for these assholes.

[ArkansasDemocrat1]

20. The usual suspects

[ArkansasDemocrat1]

21. Jack Smith is the Oprah of RICOs

https://content.api.news/v3/images/bin/747b388abf806eace4febf55841285da

[FakeNoose]

26. He might as well name them all because they're all goin' down

[Pluvious]

27. And some of the criminals he pardoned... (nt.)

[slightlv]

23. Alex Jones, I think was the podcaster mentioned, IMO.

Anyone have anyone different?

[wryter2000]

30. The guy from the online retailer

Can’t think of the name.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

9. Here is a link to the filing

Link to tweet

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.258148/gov.uscourts.dcd.258148.252.0.pdf
The first page is a good read

[Uncle Joe]

10. Thanks for the addition LetMyPeopleVote

[Hekate]

17. 🎶Zippidy-do-dah, zippidy-aye 🎶

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[Freethinker65]

11. Bet the House found all of this out during their investigation as well.

Most Republicans in office were ok with it, possibly because they were part of the lead up plan of questioning the electors on the House floor. As it was getting out of hand some called to make Trump stop. He didn't.

Then they covered for Trump and themselves and now are willing to give the Presidency back to this monster.

[BattleRow]

12. CYA...no honor among thieves and

traitors.

[bluestarone]

13. Exacatly!! Let's hope this is NOT the end of this bullshit.

When we win the white house the House and senate we can Get all these bastards put in prison.

[BOSSHOG]

15. Telling the American people the truth. In Republican speak

That’s meddling in an election where high crimes and misdemeanors are irrelevant if committed by the leader of the party of responsibility. And the party of law and order.

[Joinfortmill]

16. TickTock motherf*cker.

[onandup]

18. Is this really new?

nm

[Warpy]

19. I think I might have called them dangerous. Lawyers tend to pussyfoot around this stuff

like they think it might detonate if they're blunt enough to call it what it is.

I just hope this is enough to get Cannon's butt off the bench.

[wryter2000]

31. Cannon is a different case

This is Chutkin

[LetMyPeopleVote]

22. Here is a potential list of the witnesses mentioned in the Jack Smith filing

I have not confirmed this list but I have found this list to be interesting

Link to tweet

[Pluvious]

28. There's an updated list apparently...

Link to tweet

[creeksneakers2]

29. The thing that shocked me the most

was how they set up people who did not cooperate with their scheme by identifying them so that they could be targeted for threats by Trump's followers.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

32. Here's the updated list of alleged conspirators from the redacted immunity filing by Jack Smith

Link to tweet

[LetMyPeopleVote]

33. Judge Chutkan - The claims of TFG's attorneys are "unbefitting of experienced defense counsel"

Most of TFG's briefs opposing the release of the Special Counsel filing were claims that this was a partisan exercise and the facts in the filing should not be released so close to the election. In her opinion releasing the Special Counsel brief, Judge Chutkan called out TFG's counsel for advancing political rhetoric that has no basis in law. The best is when Judge Chutkan noted that TFG's claims are “unbefitting of experienced defense counsel”

Link to tweet

[Uncle Joe]

34. I believe "unbefitting" sums *rump up better

than any other single word that I can think of.