US Election case: Prosecutors accuse Trump of having 'resorted to crimes'

Donald Trump laid the groundwork to try to overturn the 2020 election even before he lost knowingly pushed false claims of voter fraud and resorted to crimes in his failed bid to cling to power according to a newly unsealed court filing from prosecutors that lays out fresh details from the landmark criminal case against the former presidentThe filing from special counsel Jack Smiths team offers the most comprehensive view to date of what prosecutors intend to prove if the case charging Trump with conspiring to overturn the election reaches trialThough a monthslong congressional investigation and the indictment itself have chronicled in stark detail Trumps efforts to undo the election the new filing cites previously unknown accounts offered by Trumps closest aides to paint a portrait of an increasingly desperate president who while losing his grip on the White House used deceit to target every stage of the electoral processSo what the filing quotes Trump as telling an aide after being alerted that his vicepresident Mike Pence was in potential danger after a crowd of violent supporters stormed the US Capitol on January 6 2021 The details dont matter Trump said when told by an advisor that a lawyer who was mounting his legal challenges wouldnt be able to prove the false allegations in court the filing statesThe filing was submitted initially under seal following a Supreme Court opinion that conferred broad immunity on former presidents for official acts they take in office narrowing the scope of the prosecution charging Trump with conspiring to overturn the results of the election he lost to Democrat Joe BidenThe purpose of the brief is to convince US District Judge Tanya Chutkan that the offences charged in the indictment are private rather than official acts and can therefore remain part of the indictment as the case moves forward Chutkan permitted a redacted version to be made publicAlthough the defendant was the incumbent president during the charged conspiracies his scheme was fundamentally a private one Smiths team wrote adding When the defendant lost the 2020 presidential election he resorted to crimes to try to stay in officeTrump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung called the brief falsehoodridden and unconstitutional and repeated oftstated allegations that Smith and Democrats were hellbent on weaponising the Justice Department in an attempt to cling to powerThe release of the falsehoodridden Unconstitutional J6 brief immediately following Tim Walzs disastrous debate performance is another obvious attempt by the HarrisBiden regime to undermine American Democracy and interfere in this electionThe filing includes details of conversations between Trump and Pence including a private lunch the two had on November 12 2020 in which Pence reiterated a facesaving option for Trump telling him dont concede but recognise the process is over according to prosecutorsIn another private lunch days later Pence urged Trump to accept the results of the election and run again in 2024 I dont know 2024 is so far off Trump told him according to the filingBut Trump disregarded Pence in the same way he disregarded dozens of court decisions that unanimously rejected his and his allies legal claims and that he disregarded officials in the targeted states including those in his own party who stated publicly that he had lost and that his specific fraud allegations were false prosecutors wroteTrumps steady stream of disinformation in the weeks after the election culminated in his speech at the Ellipse on the morning of January 6 2021 in which Trump used these lies to inflame and motivate the large and angry crowd of his supporters to march to the Capitol and disrupt the certification proceeding prosecutors wroteThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever