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“Make Them Riot”: Newly Unsealed Filing Gives New Details Of Federal Election Conspiracy Case Against Donald Trump
A newly unsealed filing reveals additional evidence in Special Counsel Jack Smith‘s election conspiracy case against former President Donald Trump. The filing details the extent to which a bevy of advisers, including Vice President Mike Pence, sought to convince Trump that his challenge to the 2020 presidential election would not succeed and that it lacked […]
Smith filed the 165-page document with U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan to lay out what parts of his case against Trump do not fall within official acts while he was president. Smith’s case — in which Trump was charged with four counts of conspiring to remain in power after the 2020 election — was put on hold as the Supreme Court weighed whether the former president had immunity from prosecution. Smith made a number of arguments that evidence gathered would not fall within the boundaries of presidential official acts but instead were campaign related, including tweets that Trump was posting as the January 6th riot at the Capitol was unfolding.
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