Jack Smith makes damning new allegations about January 6
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Regardless of the fate of the Trump prosecutions, the new filing matters politically.

Audio of Steve Bannon explaining the plan

It says that Trump told three advisers before Election Day that, if he had an early lead in the vote count on election night due to slower counting of mail-in ballots—which were expected to favor Biden—he would “simply declare victory before all the ballots were counted and any winner was projected.”

Smith’s filing also cites audio from October 31, 2020, first revealed by Mother Jones. In it, Trump strategist Steve Bannon said that on election night, “Trump is gonna declare victory. But that doesn’t mean he’s the winner. He’s just gonna say he’s the winner.” Trump “did exactly that” on election night, the brief notes, claiming that he should have won but was a victim of voter fraud.

Smith’s brief reveals that shortly after the election, a Trump aide gave the president an “honest assessment” that his fraud claims would fail in court. “The details don’t matter,” Trump responded.

  • pelespirit@sh.itjust.worksOPMEnglish
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    13 hours ago

    From a different source:

    1. “Make them riot!”

    “In the immediate post-election period, while the defendant [Trump] claimed fraud without proof, his private operatives sought to create chaos, rather than seek clarity, at polling places where states were continuing to tabulate votes,” the motion states.

    P5, who is described as “a Campaign employee, agent, and co-conspirator of Trump,” responded to a colleague’s mention of the “Brooks Brothers riot” (a group of Republican operatives who attempted to disrupt the 2000 vote count in Florida, given this moniker because many of the participants were young men in preppy, navy blue suits) and suggested similar unrest might occur at a location in Detroit, Michigan where votes were being counted.

    According to the motion, P5 replied “Make them riot” and “Do it!!!”, voicing support for disrupting the vote counting.

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