🧵I’ve read through the evidence section—the first 85 pages—of Jack Smith filing on Trump’s private criminal efforts to stay in power despite knowing that he’d lost the election.
The evidence is stunning. It’s clear why Trump did not want the public to see this testimony.
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Doug Larson, the expert listed by the Trump Org as its appraiser in 5 years of documents, tells the court under oath that he never did that appraisal work and was unaware that the Trump organization was
13) It’s still shocking how close America came to losing our democracy on January 6th, 2024. Trump’s coup nearly succeeded.
Utterly shocking to see this evidence laid out and realize that corrupt judges on SCOTUS have kept Trump from being held accountable for his crimes up to
1. The evidence presented in Jack Smith’s filing all comes from Trump insiders under oath. People within Trump’s circle of trust. Republicans dedicated to Trump.
🧵I also read through the second half of Jack Smith’s filing on Trump’s private criminal efforts to stay in power despite knowing he’d lost the election: the Legal Framework and Not Immune sections (pages 85-164, sec II and III).
Collectively, these sections should also be known
2) Before election day, Trump told campaign insiders that he would declare victory regardless of the results.
That he would assert that only votes on election day counted.
Reason? Trump wanted to exclude mail-in ballots that he knew favored Biden (despite having voted by mail
3) By November 13th, Trump knew he had no evidence of election fraud and had the lost legal challenges that could allow him to win the election. By November 13th!
Still, Trump continued to lie publicly about election fraud.
12) Trump watched the mob attack the Capitol on TV.
Even after the attack, when Trump learned that certification would still proceed later that night, around 7PM, Trump directed REDACTED to make phone calls to Republican Senators to try to stop certification.
Jack Smith has
4) Lawyers and campaign insiders repeatedly told Trump that his claims of election fraud were untrue, were “bullshit,” and they would be slaughtered in court. Trump responded, “The details don’t matter.”
When Trump couldn’t get respectable lawyers to do what he wanted, Trump
8) Pence repeatedly refused to go along with the fake electors’ scheme. On January 1st, Trump told Pence: “Hundreds of thousands of people are going to hate your guts… You’re too honest.”
6) Trump “personally set the fake electors plan in motion in early December, ensured it was carried out by co-conspirators and campaign agents in the targeted states, and monitored its progress.”
5) Mike Pence was loyal up to the end. Pence repeatedly tried to talk Trump down and accept defeat as “an intermission” and advised that Trump could run again in 2024.