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Trump ‘resorted to crimes’ after losing 2020 election in failed bid to cling to power: feds
https://nypost.com/ ^ | 10/2/2024 | ap

Posted on 10/02/2024 1:24:37 PM PDT by bitt

WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump “resorted to crimes” in a failed bid to cling to power after losing the 2020 election, federal prosecutors said in a newly unsealed court filing that argues that the former president is not entitled to immunity from prosecution. The filing was unsealed Wednesday. It was submitted by special counsel Jack Smith’s team following a Supreme Court opinion that conferred broad immunity on former presidents and narrowed the scope of the prosecution. This is a developing story. Please check back for more updates.

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To: SunStar

“…lying to state officials in order to induce them to ignore true vote counts; “

Those counts were never vetted out and there is clear prima facie evidence of conspiracy and vote count irregularity. What happened with the vote count has never before happened in the entire history of this country. The result was also wildly statistically improbable if not full out impossible.


41 posted on 10/02/2024 1:56:37 PM PDT by TalBlack (Fight Fight Fight America https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKOJdMog6T0)
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To: bitt

Jack Smith is a criminal. He must be prosecuted next year. Oh wait, he has immunity.


42 posted on 10/02/2024 2:00:00 PM PDT by Captain Jack Aubrey (There's not a moment to lose.)
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To: bitt
special counsel Jack Smith’s team

How is that POS still able to file anything with any court?

43 posted on 10/02/2024 2:01:02 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Saintgermain
And what crimes did he resort to if I may ask?

Conspiracy to Defraud the United States—18 U.S.C. § 371)

Conspiracy to Obstruct an Official Proceeding—18 U.S.C. § 1512(k))

Obstruction of, and Attempt to Obstruct, an Official Proceeding—18 U.S.C. §§ 1512(c)(2), 2)

Conspiracy Against Rights—18 U.S.C. § 241)

44 posted on 10/02/2024 2:06:37 PM PDT by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis! Trump & Vance, 2024! (Formerly) Goldwater & Thomas Sowell in 2024)
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To: Saintgermain

Complaining about blatant election fraud is a crime. 😏


45 posted on 10/02/2024 2:10:14 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: SunStar

The behavior listed is not a crime. He sought legal and Constitutional remedies.
To make it illegal to challenge election results, would be the definition of a dictatorship.

Arguing to state officials that results were flawed, is not “lying to state officials” it is stating your case.

BTW Biden had 6000 lawyers on call around the nation, ready to challenge the election.


46 posted on 10/02/2024 2:11:25 PM PDT by Williams (Let's Focus On Electing President Trump)
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To: Williams
Even if Joe Biden did win "legitimately", he sort of changed the rules.

He took advantage of covid-19 to make sure states would collect mail in ballots.

When you're playing a football game, you don't change the rules as you're playing the game. You wait until the season is over. And then you can change the rules if you want.

But the rules were changed during the election of 2020. That made the whole thing "sus".

47 posted on 10/02/2024 2:16:01 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: RetiredArmy

I’ll be glad when Trump wins and can pardon himself and ALL the so-called January 6th insurrectionists. Poof. One swelled hoop and do it all. All crimes alleged from the 45th presidential period. Screw this mob. Joe is going to pardon his criminal son, so why cannot Trump do the same for himself?
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He won’t need to pardon himself. He will fire Jack Smith’s ass right after he’s sworn in and hopefully every US Attorney in the country.


48 posted on 10/02/2024 2:17:41 PM PDT by HenpeckedCon
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To: bitt

There is plenty of evidence that it was a fraudulent election. Pence didn’t have access to the information that a president would have. Additionally, probability and later revelations reveal a solid basis for actually concluding the election was fraudulent.
Moreover, everything a VP and a potus discusses is official.


49 posted on 10/02/2024 2:25:16 PM PDT by xzins (Retired US Army chaplain. Support our troops by praying for their victory. )
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To: P-Marlowe

There is plenty of evidence that it was a fraudulent election. Pence didn’t have access to the information that a president would have. Additionally, probability and later revelations reveal a solid basis for actually concluding the election was fraudulent.
Moreover, everything a VP and a potus discusses is official.


50 posted on 10/02/2024 2:25:50 PM PDT by xzins (Retired US Army chaplain. Support our troops by praying for their victory. )
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To: bitt

The justice department committed crimes by illegally appointing Jack smith against the law. And all for political reasons.


51 posted on 10/02/2024 2:28:18 PM PDT by Revel
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To: Sacajaweau

He had transgressed The Unwritten Law!


52 posted on 10/02/2024 2:29:05 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Magnum44

And ants!


53 posted on 10/02/2024 2:35:54 PM PDT by broken_clock (Go Trump! Still praying.)
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To: bitt

“judge chutkin allowed the release of the filing..

Trump’s actions were taken AFTER he was in office - since the SC put him down earlier, Smith is flailing...”
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The motion filed by Smith today is exactly the analysis the Supreme Court directed the District Court to conduct. Trump’s lawyers will file a response, and then Chutkin will determine which, if any, acts by Trump were outside the course and scope of official presidential acts.


54 posted on 10/02/2024 2:39:28 PM PDT by Bob Wills is still the king (Just a Texas Playboy at heart!)
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To: All

Donald Trump knew what a terrible president Biden would be, and events have proven concerns valid.

Biden is a crook and his son is a full time criminal.

Both Biden and his vice president are incompetent fools at best, and traitors at worst.

Now run it by us again, what did Trump do? In my view, he tried to save America from a disaster. A crime? No.

The “crimes” of the Jan 6 protestors are also vastly overstated. Any reasonable person could conclude from voting patterns as reported (the midnight surge in swing states) that fraud was very probable. I for one still believe there WAS massive voter fraud in the 2020 election.

I also believe mismanagement of the border is probably the greatest single criminal act in American history, unless corruption related to the ukraine-Russia conflict is greater (taken together, easily worse than corruption in previous cases, Warren harding looks like a saint by comparison).

Everyone involved should be punished accordingly, starting by voting them out in November.


55 posted on 10/02/2024 2:47:21 PM PDT by Peter ODonnell (A conspiracy theory is usually a fact that a leftist cannot endorse)
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To: bitt

Their assassins having failed, they resort to this.


56 posted on 10/02/2024 2:58:11 PM PDT by MNnice
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To: bitt

“Democrats are Weaponizing the Justice Department against me because they know I am WINNING, and they are desperate to prop up their failing Candidate, Kamala Harris. The DOJ pushed out this latest “hit job” today because JD Vance humiliated Tim Walz last night in the Debate. The DOJ has become nothing more than an extension of Joe’s, and now Kamala’s, Campaign. This is egregious PROSECUTORIAL MISCONDUCT and should not have been released right before the Election. The Democrat Party is turning America into a Third World Country that tries to censor, harass, and intimidate their Political Opponents. What they have done to our Justice System is one of the Great, All Time, Tragedies….”

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/113239970389335011


57 posted on 10/02/2024 3:04:19 PM PDT by Brown Deer
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To: Peter ODonnell

“ Biden is a crook and his son is a full time criminal.”

Joe Biden has been a full time criminal for more than 50 years, and a crime syndicate King Pin for close to twenty.


58 posted on 10/02/2024 3:10:06 PM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast (Peak crazy is almost here.)
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To: Brown Deer

“Democrats are Weaponizing the Justice Department against me because they know I am WINNING, and they are desperate to prop up their failing Candidate, Kamala Harris. The DOJ pushed out this latest “hit job” today because JD Vance humiliated Tim Walz last night in the Debate. The DOJ has become nothing more than an extension of Joe’s, and now Kamala’s, Campaign. This is egregious PROSECUTORIAL MISCONDUCT and should not have been released right before the Election. The Democrat Party is turning America into a Third World Country that tries to censor, harass, and intimidate their Political Opponents. What they have done to our Justice System is one of the Great, All Time, Tragedies….”

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The problem for the Dems is that for the first time in awhile more than 50% of the nation is fully aware of how evil they really are.


59 posted on 10/02/2024 3:13:49 PM PDT by Bishop_Malachi (Liberal Socialism - A philosophy which advocates spreading a low standard of living equally.)
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To: bitt
FYI

Chutkin and Smith should be disbarred https://t.co/Z4wy28Kdp2— Mark R. Levin (@marklevinshow) October 2, 2024


60 posted on 10/02/2024 3:22:35 PM PDT by conservative98
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