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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JUST IN: Judge Boasberg finds probable cause to hold administration in contempt of court for defying his order to turn around planes, demands new details in order for officials to “purge” their contempt. Details TK
BOASBERG said the evidence shows willful defiance by the Trump administration that amounts to criminal contempt. Full 46-page opinion: ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show_p…
Boasberg cites the administration’s gloating after his order was violated, noting the snarky “oppose”tweet from Bukele and how it was amplified by administration officials.: ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show_p…
DOJ provides no new information on Abrego Garcia but says if he manages to return to the US, they'll detain him and remove him to a different country (not El Salvador) or seek to "terminate" his order of removal and send him back to El Salvador...
Joseph Mazzara, ICE's general counsel, filed this update with the court. He also is present in court today.
Abrego Garcia's lawyers say there's no evidence the Trump administration has done anything to comply with the order to facilitate his return from El Salvador. They want depositions, interrogatories and documents.
JUST IN: The Trump administration says it has "no updates" for Judge Xinis about efforts to facilitate return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Reiterates that a judge in 2019 viewed him as a member of MS-13.
THERE'S MORE: In a separate filing, the govenrment says its arrangement with El Salvador to house deportees in the notorious CECOT prison is classified. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
NEW: The Trump administration says it has no legal obligation to help Kilmar Abrego Garcia get to the United States. And the details of its arrangement with El Salvador to house U.S. deportees are classified, they say.
A federal judge is not prepared to “rubber stamp” the dismissal of charges against a Jan. 6 defendant who was separately convicted of an unrelated gun charge.
Judge James Bredar is asking prosecutors to explain why they suddenly claim Trump’s pardon covers this — and to explain the “inconsistent” positions it has taken on this question over the past two months.
DOJ has taken the position that Trump J6 pardon applies to:
1) Ben Martin (gun conviction w history of domestic violence) 2) Dan Wilson (gun conviction w a felony record) 3) Elias Costianes (gun conviction w history of drug abuse) 4) Jeremy Brown (possession of grenades, guns, classified info)
DOJ has taken the position that the pardon does NOT apply to:
1) David Daniel (possession of child pornography) 2) Edward Kelley (conspiracy to murder law enforcement who investigated him) 3) Taylor Taranto (threats and firearm possession)
NEW: The Justice Department says Jan. 6 defendants whose convictions were wipred out by Trump are owed a refund for the restitution they paid to Congress.
DOJ's position came in response to a request for a refund by defendant Stacy Hager, who wants back the $500 he paid to the architect of the Capitol after his conviction.
But not ALL Jan. 6 defendants are entitled to it, DOJ says. Only those who were actively appealing their convictions at the time Trump issued his pardon, they say.