1) A Trump campaign employee and alleged coconspirator sought to foment chaos at the TCF ballot processing center in Detroit. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
2) Trump sidelined his campaign leal team on Nov. 13, putting RUdy Giuliani (CC1) in charge because he was willing to lie about the election results.
2) Pence told Trump he saw no evidence of outcome-determinative fruad. They had MANY conversations, some detailed in Pence's book, which prosecutors cite.
3) Smith says he plans to prove at trial that Trump and his alies made up claims about noncitizen voters out of whole cloth.
4) Trump repeatedly promised to "package up" and provide evidence to Gov. Ducey, Gov. Kemp and Rusty Bowers re: election fraud but never did.
6) A U.S. senator (P27) helped facilitate a Dec. 8 call between Trump and Georgia AG Chris Carr.
7) Trump clearly addressed Carr as a political candidate, per Smith's filing, saying "we're running out of time," talked about the Georgia runoffs and electing Loeffler/Perdue. He told Carr not to lobby other AGs against signing onto a Supreme Court amicus brief.
8) Trump asked RNC chairwoan Ronna McDaniel to meet with Michigan GOP leaders but she said she coudln't because it could be considered lobbying.
Trump dialed her in anyway.
9) Rudy tried to text a Michigan GOP leader a proposed resolution declaring the election in dispute -- but he sent it to a wrong number.
10) On Nov. 20, Trump muted his phone while Sidney Powell was talking and mocked her repeatedly, calling her claims "crazy" and making a Star Trek reference.
11) Ronna McDANIEL told turp she would not promote a report claiming Dominion voting machines had been manipulated in Michigan's Antrip county, in part because she had been told the report was "fucking nuts."
12) Ken Chesebro (CC5) was instructed by co-conspirator 6 to only communicate by text with him and John Eastman.
13) Smith provides details of private texts and conversations Trump was having with alleged co-conspirators just around Christmas, all related to the pressure campaign against Mike Pence.
14) Trump spoke to Bannon on Jan. 5 less than two hours before Bannon predicted on his War Room podcast that "all hell is going to break loose" on Jan. 6.
15) When Trump allies learned that Pence's lawyer, Greg Jacob, had refused to back up their plan to subvert the election, Bannon (P1) responded, "Fuck his lawyer."
16) ! Trump was *alone* in the Oval Office dining room when he tweeted his attack on Pence, prosecutors say, even as the Fox News broadcast he had on made clear the Capitol had been breached and was locked down.
17) Smith lays out more details of Giuliani's effort to lobby lawmakers to continue challenging election results even as the Capitol remained locked down and police were clearing the building.
NEWS: Jack Smith reveals his most detailed and damaging evidence of Trump's scheme to subvert the 2020 election, from repeating fraud claims he knew to be false and tweeting his Jan. 6 attack on Pence while alone in a WH dining room.
Jack Smith says Trump made knowingly false claims about election fraud in 2020.
Trump, responding to the new filing, makes knowingly false claims about why this document was released today.
(It was filed on Sept. 26 and unsealed by Judge Chutkan — not DOJ — today)
MORE: WHen Trump was informed that Pence was taken to a secure location during the Jan. 6 violence — just minutes after Trump had attacked him in a tweet — Smith says Trump's response to an aide was "So what?"
Smith plans to introduce evidence fome an FBI forensic examiner showing Trump's phone use on Jan. 6 —- and tha the was using the Twitter app consistently throughout the day after his speech.
Per Smith, Trump told Ivanka and Jared Kushner: "It doesn't matter if you won or lost the election. You still have to fight like hell."
MORE DETAILS: Per Smith's filing, Trump told Eric Herschmann that he would only pay Rudy if he succeded, Herschmann assured him he would never have to pay Rudy anything. Trump laughed and said "We'll see."
John EASTMAN (CC2) told Rusty Bowers to call the legislature back into session — even though he didn't have legal authority to do so — and "let the courts sort it out," per Smith
NEW: Here are some of the most striking and notable details in Jack Smith's new filing revealing previously unreleased evidence about Trump's effort to subvert the 2020 election.
MORE: Rudy Giuliani (CC1) orchestrated the ouster of RNC legal counsel Justin Riemer (P43), after Riemer contradicted his claims of fraud.
Others: Justin Clark (P3), Eric Herschmann (P9) Jenna Ellis (P12), Ronna McDaniel (P39)
Former Rep. Thomas Marino (P57) dropped out as a Trump elector designee because he thought the false elector plan was illegal, Smith says.
When PA electors resisted signing documents without a caveat, Trump campaign aides (including Jenna Ellis, P12) mocked them. "Whoever selected this slate should be shot," one of the aides said.
NOTABLE: Jack Smith suggests Trump "resumed" daily converastions with Steve BANNON (P1) around the time his focused turned to pressuring Pence. Bannon's purported role is detailed more granularly here than anywhere else. (He's currently in jail for defying J6 committee subpoena)
IMPORTANT: Here is a clear example of Jack Smith breaking executive privilege (left) where the Jan. 6 committee could not (right).
Trump asked Pat Cipollone (P59) to *leave* the Jan. 4 meeting with John Eastman, per Smith. Cipollone wouldn't discuss that moment with Congress.
By pushing Cipollone out of the room, Trump ensured that Pence did not hear a dissenting voice (at least from the Trump side) on whether Eastman's plan to block Biden's Electoral College win could work.
MORE: Jack Smith says Trump sent or directed the sending of all tweets form his @ realdonaldtrump account -- and other than him, only Dan Scavino (P45) had access to the account.
Smith plans to call Scavino at trial to discuss Trump's Twitter habits.
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The Justice Department treated Friday’s sentencing like a coda of sorts for its 4–year investigation of the Jan. 6 attack, vowing on the eve of the Trump presidency that
“The institutions that protected democracy on Jan. 6 cannot and will not forget.”
Judge Mehta also used his remarks to lament how many veterans were among the Jan. 6 mob and have described, in court proceedings, dealing with mental/physical health challenges with minimal support. politico.com/news/2024/12/2…
MORE: The department's sweeping effort to identify a classified info leak — which included seeking phone/email logs for Schiff/Swalwell and 43 staffers — was done without proper oversight and risks chilling Congress' legitimate work, the IG found. politico.com/news/2024/12/1…
Kash PATEL was among those swept up in this search, and he unsuccessfully sued over it last year. But the IG found that the 43 searched staffers were split along partisan lines w/ no evidence of political motivation. politico.com/news/2024/12/1…
Judges are pushing back on efforts to sweep Jan. 6 under the rug but worried that a large swath of the public has moved on. politico.com/news/2024/12/0…
Judge Lamberth ordered a misdemeanor defendant — previoulsy convicted of a felony that was tossed because of SCOTUS — immediately jailed for a 12mo sentence.
And Judge Jackson worried that the "volume's getting turned up" on disinformation about 2020. politico.com/news/2024/12/0…
HAPPENING NOW: Enrique Tarrio, testifying at the trial of MPD officer Shane Lamond, has been combative, evasive and, at times, contradictory.
He seems to be relishing his attempt to fluster prosecutors. Drew a contempt threat from Juge Jackson when he refused to discuss Jan. 6.
The contempt threat for the former Proud Boys leader came on the first question from DOJ, when the prosecutor asked him if Proud Boys traveled to Washington on Jan. 6. Tarrio refused to answer and suggested he would plead the 5th even though he waived his 5th yesterday.
Tarrio also talked about timing his trip to Washington, D.C. for Jan. 4, 2021 because he knew he would be arrested for burning a BLM banner the month before and wanted to ensure he could be arrested and processed in time to be out for Jan. 6 events.
BIDEN calls Hunter’s case “selective prosecution” instigated by his political adversaries. Not exactly the ringing endorsement of the special counsel process his DOJ has long made.
Biden says “raw politics” infected the case, causing a “miscarriage of justice.”
NEW: Donald Trump hasn’t said a word since the election about his intent to pardon Jan. 6 defendants. It’s prompted some anxiety among supporters and a raging debate about his intentions.
That debate has been compounded by the replacement of Matt Gaetz — a fervent ally of Jan. 6 defendants — with Pam Bondi, who has maintained radio silence on the issue for four years. politico.com/news/2024/11/3…
Trump’s transition team exacerbated the issue by vowing Trump would consider pardons “case by case,” a signal that he might not implement the sweeping blanket pardon many J6 defenders have called for. politico.com/news/2024/11/3…