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Oct 3, 2024 • 16 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
🧵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.

13 things jumped out to me on Trump’s attempt to defraud the American people and steal the 2020 election.
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.
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 himself).
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.
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 hired new, crackpot lawyers who would.
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.
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.”
7) Many fake electors in the fake elector plot were conned. Alternate electors were told that they would only be used if Trump prevailed in legal cases, and when others figured out what they were doing was illegal, they were replaced.

It was a scramble up to December 14th to get fake electors assembled and fake documents signed.

Trump was repeatedly updated during the entire process and gave public tweets saying the election could not be certified to provide cover for these fake electors.
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.”
9) As Trump’s pressure campaign on Pence ramped up, Pence kept notes. At one point, having 5 pages of contemporaneous notes from a meeting of all the batshit crazy stuff Trump was asserting and how Trump wanted Pence to throw out the lawful certifications.

On January 5th, when Pence refused—yet again, Trump threatened Pence: “I’m going to have to say you did a great disservice.”
10) Trump knew Pence had refused repeatedly to go along with the fake electors’ scheme when Trump issued a public statement on January 5th—a lie giving false hopes to supporters attending the rally on January 6th: “The Vice President and I are of total agreement that the Vice President has the power to act…”
11) When Trump spoke at the Ellipse on January 6th, he knew Pence wouldn’t throw out the legally certified electors.

Trump knew his only hope to delay the certification of Joe Biden as president is the angry mob before him—which is why Trump encouraged them to march down to the Capitol.

Trump lied to the crowd about false election claims. Trump lied to crowd that states didn’t mean to certify and wanted their certifications back.
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 voicemails of those messages.
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 now.

When you see this mountain of evidence, it sure looks like Trump isn’t running to help America. He’s running to make this case go away and stay out of jail.
You can read the evidence Jack Smith has assembled for yourself. đź‘€

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
Asked and answered. The second half summary of Jack Smith's filing is now available.

Jack Smith's highly likely to win this case against Trump if it goes to court.

See this 🧵

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🚨BREAKING: Trump’s tariff war wiped out $3.5 TRILLION in market value already (between Feb. 19 and Mar. 7)—to maybe collect $256B in tariffs from Canada and Mexico annually.

That’s torching $13.67 for every $1 America might make. A 93% loss. And tariffs raise prices on nearly every American.

Easy to see why the Wall Street Journal called this "The Dumbest Trade War in History."
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• Canada: In 2024, the U.S. imported approximately $550 billion worth of goods from Canada.
• Mexico: In 2024, the U.S. imported approximately $475 billion worth of goods from Mexico.

Combined Imports: $550 billion (Canada) + $475 billion (Mexico) = $1.025 trillion

Potential Tariff Revenue:
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🧵 Want an incredibly positive policy that’s going to make your life better?

@KamalaHarris will expand Medicare for long-term in-home care to all Americans over 65.

Who’s this for? It’s not based on income. It’s for any American above age 65 needing in-home care. Great for those of us trying to take care of aging parents!

7 things stand out to me.
1. Wow, do we want this program! 88% of Americans would rather age at home than in a nursing home. (Source: AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research study).

If you could get a home health aide to help you or your aging parent at home, everyone would have a lot more freedom, financial stability, and dignity in their life.
2. The current situation is barbaric. Medicare does not currently cover long-term nursing home care or a home health aide!

Middle-class seniors who need long-term care—but can't afford the steep costs—face a tough reality: they must go through a process known as a "Medicaid spend down."

This means they must part with their hard-earned savings, sell off treasured possessions, and drain their bank accounts to qualify for the support they need to manage basic daily activities like eating, using the bathroom, and getting out of bed. It's a harsh trade-off, turning financial stability into a struggle for essential care.

Only when they have less than $2,000 in their bank account at any given time (among other restrictions) can Medicaid, a poverty program, step in and help.

Kamala Harris’ program ends that ugly nonsense.
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Oct 7, 2024
🧵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 as: Let’s Not Let Presidents Crime.

13 things jumped out to me.
1. I'm super impressed with Jack Smith and his team. SCOTUS is forcing Jack Smith to fight with one hand tied behind his back, to put significant evidence aside, and Jack Smith is like: No problem. I can still make this case.
2. Jack Smith shows that Trump primarily used private actors and private campaign infrastructure in his scheme to illegally stay in power and overturn the 2020 election despite knowing he’d lost. These were private criminal efforts of a candidate, not Executive powers.

Smith obtained mountains of supporting evidence, under oath, from Trump’s close private advisors and campaign team—who, importantly, do not belong to the Executive Branch.

I did a 13-point summary of the 85-pages of the evidence in a thread (pinned to the top of my timeline).
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1/ Will the Supreme Court start the next coup?

On Dec. 7th, while votes are being counted in Georgia, the Supreme Court will hear a case, Moore vs. Harper, that will determine if we are to continue have free & fair elections that allow citizens to choose their representatives.
2/ As an American deeply concerned about preserving free and fair elections, I re-read the Constitution and scholarly articles about the intent and history of the Elections Clause.

I’m stunned at how willfully ignorant and corrupt the “Independent State Legislature theory” is.
3/ The idea that the Supreme Court can rule justly that state courts, state constitutions, voters, and Congress are irrelevant to how state legislatures handle elections & choose electors is inherently absurd.

But how twisted would the Court have to be to commit such a travesty?
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1/ As an American deeply concerned about preserving free and fair elections, I re-read the Constitution and scholarly articles about the intent and history of the Elections Clause.

I’m stunned at how willfully ignorant & corrupt the “Independent State Legislature theory” is.
2/ The idea that the Supreme Court can rule justly that state courts, state constitutions, voters, & Congress are irrelevant to how state legislatures handle elections & choose electors is inherently absurd.

But how twisted would the Court have to be to commit such a travesty?
3/ To endorse such nonsense, The Supreme Court would have to ignore the Founders' intent, the Constitution's structure, the original meaning of “legislature,” and settled judicial precedent from the Court itself over the past century.
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I re-read the Constitution (including the Bill of Rights) to see what our founding fathers had to say about a well-regulated Militia.

The America people have been bamboozled by gun companies wanting to sell more guns for greater profits—undermining safety in our nation. 1/
The word militia appears 6 times in the U.S. Constitution.

From the description of Militia (in sections 2 & 8 ), it’s clear that Militia is not one individual with individual gun rights. Militia are the national guard of each state that can be called to form an army. 2/
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