Posted on 10/02/2024 3:54:48 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
In a sprawling legal brief partly unsealed on Wednesday, the special counsel, Jack Smith, laid out his case for why former President Donald J. Trump is not immune from prosecution on federal charges of plotting to overturn the 2020 election.
The redacted brief, made public by Judge Tanya S. Chutkan of the Federal District Court in Washington, adds new details to the already extensive public record of how Mr. Trump lost the race but attempted nonetheless to cling to power.
Part of the brief focuses, for example, on a social media post that Mr. Trump sent on the afternoon of the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, telling supporters that Vice President Mike Pence had let them all down. Mr. Smith laid out extensive arguments for why that post on Twitter should be considered an unofficial act of a desperate losing candidate, rather than the official act of a president that would be considered immune from prosecution under a landmark Supreme Court ruling this summer.
After Mr. Trump’s Twitter post focused the enraged mob’s attention on harming Mr. Pence and the Secret Service took the vice president to a secure location, an aide rushed into the dining room off the Oval Office where Mr. Trump was watching television. The aide alerted him to the developing situation, in the hope that Mr. Trump would then take action to ensure Mr. Pence’s safety.
Instead, Mr. Trump looked at the aide and said only, “So what?” according to grand jury testimony newly disclosed in the brief.
Much earlier, the brief says, one of Mr. Trump’s lawyers gave him an “honest assessment” that his false claims that the election had been marred by widespread fraud would not hold up in court. But Mr. Trump seemed not to care.
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Attempt #3 is coming. The call to the FBI assets bullpen has been made. I hope they restrict his airspace for arrivals and departures and corkscrew their arrivals like it's Kosovo or Bosnia. (Hillary Arival). Unpublished vectors for intercepting the glideslope at the middle marker, nothing farther.
Smith has no standing.
Chutkan should be removed from the bench and disbarred. Inexcusable judicial conduct that wreaks of Obamite desperation.
Tell me the part that Trump called an “dictator” and implied “he’d strip citizens of their rights”
Oh and got shot at ..twice by MAGA people!
Otherwise, another snooze by the DOJ....
I've been one of the few Freepers who has actually defended Mike Pence for his actions on January 6th, but on this point the prosecutor is completely out to lunch.
VP Pence was acting as President of the U.S. Senate in presiding over the joint session of Congress on January 6th. The President of the United States not only has no DUTY to protect him in that capacity ... he doesn't have the authority under U.S. law to do so.
Once Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer refused the President's offer of military assistance for Congress, they were on their own. Any complaints that VP Pence may have had about his personal safety should be taken up with them.
Does Smith have a list of countries that have no extradition?
That’s a proportionate sanction
the judge chatka and smith are on the same team.
chatka will do, and has done, whatever smith asks for.
And it is a massive crock of s-it, lies, supposition, innuendo and hyperbole. These cretins deserve.....
Deep State must be really pissed President Trump refused another “debate” and felt they couldn’t hold this hit job any longer.
Did Rat Smith get his “evidence” from the bogus Dickless Cheney hearings?
If Chutkan allows this and we take both the house and senate she needs to lose that federal position because of her lack of knowledge of the law.
People stopped listening to the media when they discovered that Biden was a vegetable... And that the media had lied about his condition for several years. Since then... What little trust they did have in the media, has disappeared into thin air. Most people see these legal fillings against Trump as nothing more than political games from the Democrats and media to destroy Trump... And they now ignore this nonsense... In one ear, out the other.
Biggest thing was Jack Smith admits to widespread fraud, but it wasn’t enough to change the election according to him.
VP Pence was acting as President of the U.S. Senate in presiding over the joint session of Congress on January 6th. The President of the United States not only has no DUTY to protect him in that capacity ... he doesn’t have the authority under U.S. law to do so.
Once Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer refused the President’s offer of military assistance for Congress, they were on their own. Any complaints that VP Pence may have had about his personal safety should be taken up with them.
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Excellent response to this nonsense which is based on nothing more than desperation that voters are now turning away from the Marxist-Democrats by the millions!
Freaking liars.
They didn’t reveal new evidence at all. The unsealed Jack Smith’s court filing.
Biden, Harris, Schumer, Schiff, Cheney, Johnson, and their peers, are terrified of the agencies they are supposed to be limiting in size, scope, power, authority, and cost to the people. That is the threat to their "democracy". Its not our democracy or republic they are concerned about. That notion began to sunset shortly after William Colby and the sinking of the USS Poet just before the election in 1980.
Durham County D.A. Mike Nifong was worthless and unworthy. He ran with the testimony of the accuser, withheld DNA evidence that would have cleared the players, ended up charged for lying to the court, and was disbarred. Then the accuser ended up stabbing her boyfriend to death and was sentenced to 14-18 years in prison. She had previously attempted to murder her then live-in boyfriend by setting fire to the apartment they were residing in. What he did to those Lacrosse players to push a specific narrative is unforgivable. He should have been shot.
In 2016, the conviction of Darryl Howard, who was sentenced to eighty years for the 1991 strangling and sexual assault of a mother and daughter, was overturned. Nifong failed to share evidence that pointed to other suspects with Howard’s attorneys.
Not evidence. Merely allegations.
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