Posted on 11/06/2023 2:46:56 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON — Donald Trump is responsible for the events at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 because they were the “culmination” of his conspiracies to overturn the 2020 presidential election, special counsel Jack Smith’s office says in a new filing in the former president's federal election interference case.
The filing comes in response to Trump's motion to strike “inflammatory” references to the violence of Jan. 6 from his criminal indictment on four charges related to his alleged efforts to interfere with the certification of Joe Biden’s electoral victory.
Senior assistant special counsel Molly Gaston called Trump's motion a "meritless effort" to evade allegations that Trump was responsible for events at the Capitol that day.
“Indeed, that day was the culmination of the defendant’s criminal conspiracies to overturn the legitimate results of the presidential election," she wrote.
An attorney for Trump did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Monday.
The special counsel's office also filed separate memos opposing Trump's effort to dismiss the case. Trump previously filed two motions to dismiss on various constitutional grounds and a failure to state a claim.
Assistant special counsel James Pearce, in response to Trump's claim that he couldn't have known his actions were criminal because others in the past were not prosecuted for protesting election results, argued that "the defendant stands alone in American history for his alleged crimes. No other president has engaged in conspiracy and obstruction to overturn valid election results and illegitimately retain power.”
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Culminate this, punks.
What else can they dream up? This is all bull!
The 2020 election was overturned, by Obama and his billionaire Islamic donors. All the pro Hamas protests are being orchestrated just like BLM in the summer of 2020.
Gee, I wonder if there’s any connection to the former occupant of the White House, the illegitimate fake president Obama?
The REAL coup they wanted to distract everyone from seeing. They committed the crime.
Molly Gaston Attorney, DoJ, Prosecutor, Wiki, Law School, Photo, Justice, Bio
I'm guessing this is her.
The DOJ’s relentless lie about Trump’s attempt to “overturn” the 2020 election stems from Trump’s efforts to have the 2020 election examined by the constituted authority, the Congress. Such an examination is provided for in the Constitution, and was definitely not the first time to happen.
Seems like Trump’s lawyers and conservative media are not hitting that concept enough. I did hear Levin go in depth about once on his show.
Fake news is getting old.
Everybody knows about their having cheated joe in, he’s a joke on US
I am not good at making predictions but ...
At some point I think the Supreme Court will get involved. The justices do not live in a vacuum, they can see what is going on and in the end they are the only ones that put a stop to the Democrats using forces of the government against their political opponents.
Allowing the Democrats to convict Trump and or to block him from being on the ballot would be a turning point in our nation’s history.
This court will go down in history as the ones that allowed it to happen.
I would highly recommend that the stars on Old Glory be converted to bananas! We are there.... Compliments of BHO.....
They know that this is not so. Wow. Just humble ordinary Americans wanted our gov’t to dig into the hundreds of complaints of tampering with voting cites.
They WILL put Trump in jail. His life is in genuine danger.
They can not afford to let Biden lose. Biden will take down everything if he loses.
Is Smith’s statement the sound of desperation?
Sure does seem like it.
“Is this the 300th or the 400th “felony” that Trump has been discovered to have committed? “
That was last week, try to keep up.
-fJRoberts-
The RATS are getting desperate due to bad poll numbers. If they can’t stop Trump from running by prosecuting him they I worry they will take more extreme measures.
I do not believe in any of these crazy conspiracies.
I am sure that the charismatic, well spoken and never gaffing, physically attractive, high energy, mass campaigning Biden; won the elections fair and square with 81,000,000 votes, more than Obama.
(maybe a little sarc)
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Biden couldn’t get a crowd at a free KFC all you can eat give away.the Democrats fear the MAGA rallies.
Only in their crazy heads
On the other hand, I’d reassess my support for someone I intended to vote for, who offered me free KFC food at a rally. I’d think they were trying to poison me. The last three times I tried to eat something from there, it was so foul that I fed it to the coyotes, and was in fear that PETA might come after me for trying to poison the coyotes.
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