"Although the defendant was the incumbent President during the charged conspiracies, his scheme was fundamentally a private one. Working with a team of private co-conspirators, the defendant acted as a candidate when he pursued multiple criminal means to disrupt, through fraud and deceit, the government function by which votes are collected and counted—a function in which the defendant, as President, had no official role"
"His efforts included lying to state officials in order to induce them to ignore true vote counts; manufacturing fraudulent electoral votes in the targeted states"
"Privately the defendant told advisors...he would simply declare victory before all the ballots were counted and any winner was declared."
"The evidence demonstrates that the defendant knew his fraud claims were false..."
This filing details all the things he did before, during and after to usurp the will of the people...all his schemes laid bare...with evidence.
It. Is. Devastating.
"On January 5th 2021...the defendant met privately with Pence in the Oval Office. During that meeting, the defendant once again told Pence, "I think you have the power to decertify." When Pence was unmoved, the defendant threatened to criticize him publicly ("I'm gonna have to say you did a great disservice.") This concerned P8 (Pence's CoS) to whom Pence had relayed the defendant's threat, to the point that he alerted Pence's Secret Service Detail." (Pg 71)
"At 11:15am, shortly before traveling to the Ellipse to speak to his supporters, the defendant called Pence and made one last attempt to induce him to act unlawfully in the upcoming session. When Pence again refused, and told the defendant that he intended to make a statement to Congress before the certification proceeding confirming that he lacked the authority to do what the defendant wanted, the defendant was incensed. He decided to re-insert into his campaign speech at the Ellipse remarks targeting Pence for his refusal to misuse his role in the certification."
"When the defendant took the stage at the Ellipse rally to speak to the supporters who had gathered there at his urging, he knew that Pence had refused, once and for all, to use the defendant's fraudulent electors' certificates. The defendant also knew he had only one last hope to prevent Biden's certification as President..."
"...the large and angry crowd standing in front of him."
"So for more than an hour, the defendant delivered a speech designed to inflame his supporters and motivate them to march to the Capitol."
"The defendant lied to his rally supporters when he claimed certain states wanted to reconsider or decertify their duly appointed electors. For instance, he said "By the way, Pennsylvania has now seen all of this. They didn't know because it was so quick. They had a vote. They voted. But now they see all this stuff, it's all come to light. Doesn't happen that fast. And they want to recertify their votes. They want to recertify. But that can only happen if Mike Pence agrees to send it back. In response to this lie about Pennsylvania, the defendant's crowd began to chant "Send it back! Send it back!"
Beginning at about 1:30pm the defendant settled in the dining room of the Oval Office. He spent the afternoon there reviewing Twitter on his phone while the dining room television played Fox News' contemporaneous coverage of events at the Capitol. (Pg 79)
"At 2:24 p.m., Trump was alone in his dining room when he issued a Tweet attacking Pence and fueling the ongoing riot: “Mike Pence didn’t have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our Country and our Constitution, giving States a chance to certify a corrected set of facts, not the fraudulent or inaccurate ones which they were asked to previously certify. USA demands the truth! "
The defendant issued the incendiary Tweet about Pence despite knowing—as he would later admit in an interview in 2023—that his supporters “listen to [him] like no one else.” One minute later, at 2:25 p.m., the Secret Service was forced to evacuate Pence to a secure location. At the Capitol, throughout the afternoon, members of the crowd chanted, “Hang Mike Pence!" “Where is Pence? Bring him out!” and “Traitor Pence!”
Not only does the unsealed filing today spell out his multiple schemes to steal the 2020 election, it also spells out, between the lines, something even more terrifying to him.
His future.
He has a date looming with Justice.
Your job is to make sure he keeps it.
Vote.
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Their rationale: Congress has the sole power to enact 14.3, not the states.
It was unanimous.
Interesting: Trump was NOT cleared of bearing responsibility for insurrection. (The Colorado district court ruling, upheld by the Colorado Supreme Court)