Posted on 04/18/2023 9:58:51 AM PDT by John Semmens
Jack Smith, the Special Council appointed to investigate former President Trump, is said to be preparing to charge Trump with fraud for "using false allegations of vote fraud to dupe supporters into donating $200 million to his campaign fund during the period between the November 3, 2020 election and January 20, 2021, Trump's last day in office."
"Wire fraud laws make it illegal to make false representations over email to swindle people out of money," Smith said. "What could be more false than Trump's assertion that Joe Biden's 81 million votes to his 74 million votes was not proof that he legitimately lost the 2020 presidential election?"
Smith differentiated Trump's offense from GOP contentions that Democrats raised funds to campaign against Romney in 2012 by claiming he hadn't paid taxes for a decade, by pointing out that "the Democrats won that election. There was no way that that then Attorney General Holder was going to prosecute his own Party members no matter what they said or did. Secondly, the statute of limitations has long since run out for that crime. Trump lost the 2020 election. As a result, it was his opponent that got the right to appoint someone to prosecute Trump. Elections have consequences. Victors make the rules and write the history."
Smith admitted that he is not concerned whether Trump can ultimately be convicted of wire fraud. "The main point is that in the public eye Trump will be portrayed as a criminal under indictment for several crimes between now and election day 2024. American voters have never elected an indicted person for president. I'm confident that Trump won't be the first to overcome this precedent."
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Boom
I’m sure this time they got him
Discovery could prove interesting in such a case, provided the judge isn’t predisposed to suppress it, which I’d say is no better than a coin toss probability.
Democrats lie in every fund-raising letter.
Fraud implies two things…
1. It’s not true
2. You know it’s not true and use it anyway.
The problem is that it’s true and he believes it’s true. Can’t see this amounting to anything more than a wet fart.
Its more evidence these clowns have absolutely nothing on Trump.
Did Smith investigate the claims of fraud at all? No. Is he also charging all the dems who fundraiser off of Russian Collusion and all the other various lies about Trump?
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