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2020 Election FRAUD: NEW 11th-Hour Filing Made on TRUMPs CRIMINAL Indictments
All-Important Joint Submission Filed in Trumps D.C. Election Interference Case
Prosecutors Grappled With The Supreme Court's Recent Immunity Ruling ? An 11th-Hour Filing Was Made
MSNRAW 1 SEP 2024
Three weeks after special counsel Jack Smith asked a federal court in Washington, D.C. for more time in former President Donald Trump's election interference case, they made an 11th-Hour filing Former U.S. Attorney Harry Litman weighed in on the filing on X, calling it an "all-important joint submission from Smith and Trump to [Judge Tanya] Chutkan," about "how to proceed in light of Supreme Court immunity ruling."
"They are literally burning the midnight oil in DOJ and Trump's lawyers' office," he wrote just as the document was filed.
2020-BRILLIANT- Smith Made Judge Chutkans Job Easier in New TRUMP Criminal Filing
Very BRILLIANT Move Jack Smith Just Made Judge Chutkan's Job Easier
-- So Important: Ex-prosecutor flags 'money line' in Jack Smith's new Trump criminal filing
This is Simply INSANE: Questions Raised About Vetting of J.D. Vance Amid New Blow-Up
-- Shock that another damaging video of Republican Party VP candidate J.D. Vance has surfaced which will force the campaign of Donald Trump to remain on defense.
MSNRAW 4 SEP 2024
Trumps indicted on four felony counts for trying to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election," Kirschner says. "And in that court filing, there is one sentence that holds the answer to the question
Will the American people get to learn more about Donald Trump's January 6 crimes before they have to go to the polls on November 5?'"
Kirschner highlights what he says could be the most important sentence in the filing.
"The article goes on to quote what I would call the 'money line' in this new joint court filing," he says before quoting the line:
"The Government proposes that it file an opening brief in which it will explain why the immunity set forth in Trump does not apply to the categories of allegations in the superseding indictment or additional unpled categories of evidence that the Government intends to introduce at trial and will proffer in its brief," prosecutors wrote. That sentence, Kirschner added, "will determine" whether Americans get more information on Trump's alleged misdeeds related to the last election. He goes on to dive into the line, translating it from "legalese" and explaining what he thinks is its significance.
MSNBC legal analyst Danny Cevallos applauded the effort special counsel Jack Smith put into going before a grand jury and getting a superseding indictment against Donald Trump related to the Jan. 6 insurrection.
Cevallos explained that Smith trimmed down his charges against the former president which will make it harder for the conservative Supreme Court to intercede on his behalf.
Asked to "walk us through what happens next," Cevallos explained, "Normally a superseding indictment is something that strikes fear into the heart of a criminal attorney like me. It usually means that government has found more defendants or they've found more bad evidence and are charging more crimes. It's rare that you have a superseding indictment that reduces information."
"Ultimately the only thing I care about is the counts, and all four counts remain," he pointed out. "That means if the defendant is convicted the sentencing guidelines will be exactly the same. All Jack Smith's team has done is taken a look at the indictment and said 'What should we remove that insulates us?' And, yes, they removed references to Trump's attempts to subvert the DOJ and maybe install a new acting attorney general, but they keep in language about vice president Pence, which signals to me that Jack Smith's team is feeling very confident."
"They've kept all four counts and they're keeping in conduct and the Mike Pence conduct is significant because the Supreme Court suggested that this at least was entitled to the presumption of immunity," he added. "So Jack Smith is signaling that even conduct that may be entitled to a presumption of immunity, it is full steam ahead. They are not afraid of the district court and any possible hearing; they are going forward with these counts."
"So as much as, yes, this indictment has been, I guess, reduced in length, everything that matters is still in it," he continued. "This is a strategic, I think a very brilliant move to keep this indictment alive, to head off any problems at the pass before Judge Tanya Chutkan has to hold a hearing making, I think, her job even easier."
Trump's Admission That He "Inteferred" In The Election IS ADMISSIBLE EVIDENCE At His Criminal Trial
Vetting of J.D. Vance
MSNBC host Symone Sanders Townsend expressed shock that another damaging video of Republican Party vice president candidate J.D. Vance has surfaced which will force the campaign of Donald Trump to remain on defense.
On Tuesday another clip of Vance attacking childless women surfaced, this one from during his run for the Senate seat he now occupies.
In the clip Vance launched a broadside at teachers who don't have children of their own, telling a crowd he thinks they are "trying to brainwash the minds of our children."
He also singled out Randi Weingarten, the head of the American Federation of Teachers, and smeared her by exclaiming, "If she wants to brainwash and destroy the mind of children, she should have some of her own and leave ours the hell alone."
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TRUMP Pleads Not Guilty to Revised FED 2020 Election Criminal Fraud Charges
TRUMP Pleads Not Guilty to Revised 2020 Election Interference Charges
Trump pleaded not guilty on Thursday, via his legal team, to the revised charges in his federal criminal election interference investigation, in the first hearing in the Washington DC case since the US supreme court gave its immunity ruling.
The Guardian 5 SEP 2024
Current Republican nominee for the White House in this November?s election was not present in federal court in the capital.
The US district judge Tanya Chutkan said she would not set a schedule in the case at this status conference for the prosecution and defense teams, but hopes to do so later on Thursday.
The case relates to Trump?s conduct surrounding events after he lost his re-election bid in November 2020 to his Democratic rival Joe Biden, culminating in the insurrection at the US Capitol on 6 January 2021, by thousands of extreme Trump supporters intent on overturning the election result.
Chutkan is hearing arguments about the potential next steps in the election subversion prosecution of Trump for the first time since the supreme court narrowed the case by ruling that former presidents are entitled to broad immunity from criminal charges.
As the hearing opened, the judge noted that it had been almost a year since she had seen the lawyers in her courtroom. The case has been frozen since last December as Trump pursued his appeal.
The defense lawyer John Lauro joked to the judge: ?Life was almost meaningless without seeing you.?
Chutkan replied: ?Enjoy it while it lasts.?
A not guilty plea was entered on Trump?s behalf for a revised indictment that the special counsel Jack Smith?s team filed last week to strip out certain allegations and comply with the supreme court?s ruling in July.
Prosecutors have said they can be ready at any time to file a legal brief laying out their position on how to apply the justices? immunity opinion to the case.
Defense lawyers are challenging the legitimacy of the case and said they intended to file multiple motions to dismiss the case, including one that piggybacks off a Florida judge?s ruling that Smith?s appointment was unconstitutional.
Neither side envisions a trial happening before the November election. The case is one of two federal prosecutions against Trump, in a host of legal cases.
The other, charging him with illegally hoarding classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, was dismissed in July by the US district judge Aileen Cannon, who said Smith?s appointment as special counsel was unlawful.
Smith?s team has appealed that ruling. Trump?s lawyers say they intend to ask Chutkan to dismiss the election case on the same grounds.
Judge Chutkan Repeatedly Shuts Down Trump Lawyers in Brutal Hearing on Immunity
Judge Tanya Chutkan REJECTS Trump's Lawyers Arguments, Sides With Jack Smith on Immunity Litigation
Judge Chutkan Repeatedly Shuts Down Trump Lawyers in Brutal Hearing
Today was the first hearing in DC federal court in Donald Trump's 2020 election subversion case since the Supreme Court handed down its presidential immunity ruling.
Glenn Kirschner 6 SEP 2024
Trump had his first January 6 hearing since the Supreme Court immunity decision?and Judge Chutkan rejected nearly every argument from his lawyers
Tanya Chutkan, an Unflinching Judge in the Trump Jan. 6 Trial
I was in court for today's hearing and this video discusses how Judge Tanya Chutkan would have none of the arguments of Trump's lawyer, John Lauro, who tried to convince her that she should not promptly litigate the very issue the Supreme Court directed he to promptly litigate, namely, which of Trump's crimes, acts, and conduct constitute official presidential acts worthy of immunity and which do not.
The hearing did no go well for Trump and his lawyers.
Trump?s trial over his attempts to overturn the 2020 election resumed in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, and it was off to a rough start as Judge Tanya Chutkan repeatedly shot down arguments from his legal team.
Trump?s team hid behind the Supreme Court?s ruling on presidential immunity two months ago, claiming that Trump could not be prosecuted over his ?official acts? as president.
Instead, Chutkan declared she would treat Trump like any other criminal defendant.
Trump attorney John Lauro tried to argue against special counsel Jack Smith?s legitimacy in one instance, citing the fact that Judge Aileen Cannon dismissed Trump?s classified documents case by ruling that Smith?s appointment was not legitimate.... Chutkan again readily dismissed their argument.
Lauro then tried to challenge prosecutors? proposal that Trump?s team file a brief on the immunity issue by the end of September, calling it ?extremely prejudicial.? Lauro also tried to claim Trump?s conversations with his vice president, Mike Pence, were ?official acts,? only for Chutkan to rebuff him. Lauro also invoked originalism, which the Supreme Court?s conservatives adhere to, in his claim that Trump?s conversations with Pence were covered by the Supreme Court ruling.... Chutkan shot down that line of thinking.
If Trump?s trial continues to proceed like it has on Thursday, then the former president and convicted felon is going to have a tough time. Smith already put together a superseding indictment taking into account the Supreme Court?s immunity ruling, and Chutkan looks like she won?t be favoring Trump, unlike Cannon in Florida.
We may have a long and brutal federal trial coming soon.... AND....
Judge Orders Disclosure of ALL of TRUMP's Jan. 6 Crimes and Acts
Judge Orders Disclosure of Evidence of ALL of TRUMP's Jan. 6 Crimes and Acts
Jan. 6 hearing: New evidence could emerge after Judge's ruling
AP 7 SEP 2024
Judge Tanya Chutkan ordered that Jack Smith file a brief on September 26 disclosing all of Donald Trump's acts on and around January 6 so she can litigate which of Trump's crimes and acts might be official presidential acts and which are not.
And there was a remarkable statement made by Trump's attorney at the court hearing that Justice Clarence Thomas "directed" them to raise the issue of the legality of the appointment of special counsel and "suggested" they do it immediately. If this is true, investigations are necessary.
Thursday's hearing, following months of delays in the case, came a week after special counsel Jack Smith filed the new indictment that revised the original Jan. 6 charges to reflect the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark ruling that Trump is entitled to immunity from criminal prosecution for official acts undertaken while in office.
In a scheduling order issued following Thursday's hearing, Judge Chutkan said she would allow special counsel Jack Smith to file a comprehensive brief on presidential immunity by Sept. 26.
Chutkan's order allows Smith and his prosecutors to essentially defend their superseding indictment by presenting grand jury testimony and evidence that they believe bolsters their argument -- something that Trump's lawyers adamantly opposed during Thursday's hearing, because it departs from normal federal court procedure regarding which side gets to file papers first.
Trump's lawyers also suggested that such a filing would allow the special counsel to cherry-pick evidence.
Lawyers File Desperate Plea to Judge Chutkan to STOP Smith Revealing TRUMPs J6 Cr
TRUMPs Lawyers File Desperate Motion Trying to STOP Jack Smith From Revealing TRUMPs J6 Crimes
Trump Attorneys Ask Judge Chutkan To Stop Jack Smith From Making Case In Court Of Public Opinion Before Election
AP 22 SEP 2024
Special counsel Jack Smith should not be allowed to make an important public filing in his election interference case against former president Donald Trump while there are lingering evidence disputes, Trumps attorneys told the judge Thursday.
His attorneys urged Judge Tanya Chutkan, who set a schedule allowing prosecutors to file the first brief on presidential immunity Sept. 26, to reconsider her decision. Without addressing ongoing evidence issues, Smiths filing would amount to an improper motion for summary judgment in the court of public opinion? ahead of the election, they argued.
Trumps attorneys noted there are ongoing discovery violations in this case that implicate Presidential immunity and other strong defenses, including the Offices failure to produce exculpatory evidence concerning the flaws with this prosecution and the Offices false allegations.
They said prosecutors conducted their evidence review at a time when they wholly denied the existence of Presidential immunity, before the Supreme Courts July 1 decision finding former presidents immune from prosecution for official acts taken in office.
Trump Makes UNHINGED Threat Ahead of Election
Trump over the weekend threatened to prosecute AND JAIL donors, lawyers and elections officials who he claimed cheate in the 2020 election or who engaged in behaviour he deemed unscrupulous
And he elevated a dubious claim about fraud involving mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania, echoing rhetoric he used to cast doubt on the 2020 results.
Republican critics viewed Trumps most recent posts as a blaring warning sign about how Trump may react to Novembers results, win or lose.
As we head into the debate, an extreme and unhinged Donald Trump is further ratcheting up his dangerous threats of revenge and retribution
The Supreme Courts recent decision established important parameters for the procedural and substantive consideration of this defense that the Office could not possibly have accounted for when the bulk of discovery was collected and produced Trumps attorneys wrote.
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Steel Yourself TRUMP-2020 Criminal Case: Jack Smiths HUGE Mountain of Evidence
Steel Yourself TRUMP: Jack Smith Filing HUGE Brief With Mountain of Evidence in 2020 Election Criminal Case
Special Counsel Jack Smith is soon expected to file an "oversized brief" filled with "sensitive material" in the criminal case Donald Trump faces in D.C.
MSNRAW 24 SEP 2024
Smith submitted a filing to Judge Tanya Chutkan asking for permission to send an oversized brief in the case, which involves allegations that the former president unlawfully attempted to interfere with the election he lost to President Biden in 2020.
The expected brief will deal with immunity issues stemming from the U.S. Supreme Courts ruling that found limited immunity for Trump in certain cases.
Legal analyst Lisa Rubin flagged the new filing over the weekend, saying, "Steel yourself."
"In a new filing, the Special Counsel tells Judge Tanya Chutkan its opening immunity brief will be roughly 180 pages with roughly half devoted to a 'detailed factual proffer' and plenty of sensitive material warranting redactions," the attorney added. "The defense opposes the Special Counsels request to file such an oversized brief and has asked to have until Tuesday at 5 pm to submit a written opposition."
Kyle Cheney, senior legal affairs reporter for Politico, also reported on the upcoming brief, saying, "Jack Smith signals his brief on presidential immunity, due Thursday, will come in at 180 pages."
Legal analyst Allison Gill, better known as Mueller, She Wrote, added that "Jack Smith asks for permission to exceed the page limit for his immunity brief. It will be 180 pages, and as expected, they intend to file a substantial part of it UNDER SEAL."
Former prosecutor Barb McQuade said, "Not a surprise that Jack Smiths brief in immunity case is lengthy. He plans to lay out the mountain of evidence against Trump."
Former acting Assistant Attorney General Jeffrey Clark, who was indicted alongside Trump in the election subversion case in Georgia, responded to Rubins note: "See, the JournoLawfare people like Rubin are already building anticipation for Jack Smiths smear attack on Trump coming out on Thursday," he wrote.
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Judge Chutkan Rules: Jack Smith CAN File 180-Pages of TRUMPs Jan. 6 Crimes
Judge Chutkan Rules: Jack Smith CAN File 180-Page Brief Detailing TRUMPs Jan. 6 Crimes
Jack Smith Could Drop New Bombshells In Trumps Federal Election Case This Week
AP 25 SEP 2024
New information could come to light this week about Trumps efforts to overturn the 2020 election, as Special Counsel Jack Smiths office is set to file a lengthy brief making its case for why Trump should be prosecuted, including using new evidence and a federal judge rejected Trumps push to prevent it from being released.
Chutkan granted Smiths request to file a brief in the case laying out the governments full case against Trump and why its in line with the Supreme Courts immunity ruling, so that the judge can have all the facts when she makes her decision as can any appeals courts and the Supreme Court, since Trump is likely to appeal whatever ruling she issues.
That brief is due Thursday and will include ?additional unpled categories of evidence that the Government intends to introduce at trial, Smith has said, and also warned it will be 180 pages long (exceeding the courts usual 45-page limit) and will include grand jury transcripts that have not previously been made public.
Chutkan greenlit Smiths request to file a longer-than-usual brief Tuesday, rebuffing opposition from Trumps attorneys and calling the governments efforts simply how litigation works.
Trumps lawyers had pleaded with the court on Monday not to allow Smith to file the brief, claiming even before seeing it that it will be a 180-page false hit piece that the attorneys claim will taint the jury pool, also arguing its fundamentally unfair because it will lay out the governments allegations against Trump before the election
Judge Chutkans Court; TRUMP Appeals 180-Pages of Evidence of His J6 2020 Crimes
2020 Election; TRUMPs New Court Filing in DC Case, We're 1 Step Closer To Seeing Evidence Of His J6 Crimes
TRUMPs lawyers just filed an absurd objection to Jack Smiths motion detailing all of the evidence of Trumps democracy-busting January 6 crimes.
MSN 2 OCT 2024
Trump filed to Washington D.C. federal court Tuesday a seven-page response to a new 180 page document that could contain new evidence from his federal election interference case prosecutor, court records show.
"The true motivation driving the efforts by the Special Counsels Office to disseminate witness statements that they previously sought to lock down is as obvious as it is inappropriate," Trumps lawyers wrote.
"The Office wants their politically motivated manifesto to be public, contrary to the Justice Manual and longstanding DOJ norms in cases not involving President Trump, in the final weeks of the 2024 Presidential election while early voting has already begun."
This was Trumps response to Smiths nine-page argument, in support of publishing a redacted copy of his 180-page case summary to the public docket, delivered to Judge Tanya Chutkan last week.
This video takes on the three main arguments Trump makes as to why Smiths motion should not be revealed to the public - arguments Judge Tanya Chutkan is very likely to find entirely unpersuasive. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mglaO8UMy0
DEATH KNELL For TRUMP- Pages of Evidence of His J6 2020 Crimes RELEASED
WOW-BOMBSHELL For TRUMP -New Court Filings Released - 165-Pages of Evidence of His J6 2020 Crimes
Newly unsealed court filing argues former president is NOT entitled to immunity from prosecution
TRUMP said SO WHAT when Mike Pence was rushed to safety to save his life during Capitol riots, court filing reveals
Telegraph UK 2 OCT 2024
Key Moments
9:44pm
Pence encouraged Trump to accept defeat
9:37pm
Hes just going to say that hes the winner
9:26pm
Trump campaign hits back
9:23pm
Make them riot'
Trump said so what when Mike Pence was rushed to safety
Donald Trump said so what when Mike Pence was rushed to safety during the Capitol riots, a new court filing reveals.
Trump, then the US president, was told that his vice president had been forced to flee the Capitol on January 6 2021 as rioters burst in, according to court documents filed by special counsel Jack Smith.
A US judge has made the 165-page document public, in which prosecutors lay out their evidence that allegedly shows Trump illegally tried to overturn his 2020 election defeat.
It reads: Upon receiving a phone call alerting him that Pence had been taken to a secure location, [redacted] rushed to the dining room to inform the defendant [Trump] in hopes that the defendant would take action to ensure Pences safety.
Instead, after [redacted] delivered the news, the defendant looked at him and said only, So what??
9:50PM
Trump operatives sought to create chaos
Trumps private operatives sought to create chaos at polling stations where votes were still being counted.
One campaign employee and alleged co-conspirator tried to sow confusion? at a polling station in Detroit, Michigan, which looked unfavourable for Trump.
When a colleague told the campaign operative, who is named as P5 in the court filing, ?we think [a batch of votes heavily in Biden?s favour is] right?, they responded: find a reason it isnt?, give me options to file litigation and even if itbis [sic].
When the colleague said there could be unrest, P5 replied: make them riot and do it!!!
Trumps campaign staff are said to have used similar tactics at other tabulation centres, which the then-president used to claim his election observers were being denied proper access.
9:44PM Pence encouraged Trump to accept defeat and see it as intermission
In November 12 2020, the former vice president told Trump that he should not concede but recognise [that the] process is over.
At a lunch four days later, Mr Pence encouraged him to accept the election results. The former president is said to have responded: I dont know, 2024 is so far-off.
Later the same day, Mr Pence told him after we have exhausted every legal process in the courts and Congress, if we still came up short, [you] should take a bow
9:37PM
Hes just going to say that hes the winner?
Trumps private political advisor told a group of supporters the then-presidents strategy was to declare himself a winner.
Three days before the election, the aide said: And what Trumps going to do is just declare victory. Right Hes going to declare victory. According to the court filing, he added: thats our strategy.
9:33PM
Trump planted the seeds to claim he won the election
Trump told his advisors he would simply declare victory before the ballots were counted when he was told the 2020 race would be close.
His team warned him that while he might appear to be in the lead initially, it would diminish when mail-in ballots were counted.
9:31PM
Republicans are likely to frame the submission of the new court documents in Donald Trumps election interferenc case as an attempt to influence the 2024 presidential election, which is now just over a month away.
Trump Resorted to CRIMES to Stay in Office?
After losing to Joe Biden in the 2020 election, Trump resorted to crimes to try to stay in office
He launched a series of increasingly desperate plans to try and overturn the election results, prosecutors allege.
They claim Trumps efforts included lying to state officials to induce them to ignore true vote counts and manufacturing fraudulent electoral votes in the targeted states.
He is also accused of trying to enlist Mike Pence to obstruct the certification of the election.
Prosecutors also accuse Trump of directing an angry crowd of supporters to the United States Capitol to obstruct the congressional certification on 6 January 2021.
MAKE THEM RIOT
Trump urged colleagues to make them riot and do it when it was suggested their election theft claims could spark violence.
Campaign officials were discussing whether false claims from Donald Trump that he had won the 2020 election could result in scenes similar to the Brooks Brothers Riot, a violent attempt to stop the vote count in Florida after the 2000 presidential election.
Supporters of Mr Trump eventually launched a violent siege of the Capitol Building on January 6, 2021, two months after his election defeat.
The details were revealed in new court documents in the case accusing Mr Trump of subverting the election, just released.
DOOMED TRUMP- Mike Pence RECORDED TRUMPs J6 2020 Crimes in Evidence RELEASED
TRUMPs 5 Criminal Schemes Detailed in Jack Smith Filing: The Mike Pence Piece Is Beyond Disturbing
Mike Pence RECORDED All Of TRUMPs J6 2020 Crimes
AP 4 OCT 2024
TRUMP Alone With His Phone Organising The COUP & Illegal Actions
At 2:24 p.m. on Jan. 6, as Trump supporters were attacking the Capitol, Trump took to Twitter to condemn Vice President Mike Pence, saying Pence lacked courage because Pence had resisted Trumps pressure to intervene in the Electoral College certification.
According to Smiths prosecutors, Trump was alone in the White House dining room when he sent that tweet. Trumps aides had left him there after failing to persuade him to call on his supporters to leave the Capitol.
The tweet criticizing Pence coincided with one of the most perilous moments of the riot: the precise minute Pence was being evacuated from his Senate office to a loading dock below the Capitol. Rioters had come within 40 feet of where he was sheltering just before this moment.
When Trump was told by an aide of Pences evacuation, prosecutors say Trump responded: So what??
Inventing Statistics
Prosecutors said they would prove at trial that Trump and his allies often made up statistics about voter fraud from whole cloth. For example, Trump and allies alleged that 36,000 noncitizens had cast ballots in Arizona, changing the figure to a few hundred thousand five days later, eventually revising it back to bare minimum 40 or 50,000, then to 32,000 and back up to the original number of 36,000.
Broken Promises of Evidence
One week after Election Day in 2020, Trump told then-Gov. Doug Ducey (R-Ariz.) that he was packaging up fraud evidence to share with him, prosecutors wrote. But Trump never provided it. Ducey told Trump that Arizona was all but lost, comparing it to being in the ninth inning, two outs, and [the defendant] was several runs down
Mocking Sidney Powell
After a Fox News host called out Trump-aligned lawyer Sidney Powell for making bizarre claims about Dominion Voting machines, Trump called her on speakerphone. On the Nov. 20, 2020 call, Trump muted his line and mocked her to two aides, calling her claims about the election crazy and making a reference to Star Trek, prosecutors contend. On another occasion, he called Powell unhinged.
Though its not referenced in Smiths new filing or his indictment, Trump later considered naming Powell as a special counsel to investigate election fraud, and he considered a proposal she crafted to seize voting machines from swing states for a forensic inspection.
Trumps Jan. 5 Call to Steve Bannon
Prosecutors, who had more access to telephone records and emails than the congressional committee that investigated Jan. 6, allege that Trump spoke to ally Steve Bannon by phone on Jan. 5 less than two hours before Bannon issued a prescient and provocative prediction on his War Room podcast that all hell is going to break loose on Jan. 6.
MAKE THEM RIOT?
Well before Jan. 6, an unidentified Trump campaign employee enthusiastically spoke of the potential for a riot in Michigan. The employee, whom prosecutors described as a co-conspirator, allegedly sought to create chaos at a polling center in Detroit when it became clear a batch of election returns favorable to Biden was legitimate. Find a reason it isnt, the alleged co-conspirator said to a colleague, prosecutors wrote. When the colleague said an outbreak of violence appeared imminent, the campaign employee replied: Make them riot and Do it!!!
Rudys Rise
Trump sidelined his campaign lawyers on Nov. 13, 2020, with Bannon informing another Trump campaign adviser and alleged co-conspirator that Trump had replaced them in the pecking order with Rudy Giuliani. Bannon said he told Trump that without Giuliani in charge, this thing is over.Trump is in to the end, Bannon added, according to prosecutors.
Rudys Follies
Counting on Giuliani didnt turn out so well. Smiths brief includes yet another instance of Giulianis prolific record of butt-dialing and clumsy cell phone use. Prosecutors say he attempted to send a proposed resolution to Michigan lawmakers declaring the election to be in dispute but sent it to the wrong number...
Mike Pence Took Notes About Trumps Conspiracy. And Jack Smith Has Them;
Judge Chutkan Approves Release of TRUMP Jan 6 Docs With MORE DAMNING Evidence
Judge Chutkan Approves Release of TRUMP Jan. 6 Documents That Could Reveal More DAMNING Testimony
TRUMP at Breaking Point With Judge Chutkan Over Jack Smiths Election Interference, Mulls an Extraordinary Appeal
The ex president appears to be telegraphing his intent to ask a higher court to stop release of January 6 evidence
AP 12 OCT 2024
Trump launched curse word rant against immigrants during private donors dinner
Donald Trump gave a foul-mouthed rant about immigrants to a small group of wealthy donors during a private fundraiser over the summer, according to reports.
In a 12-minute recording of the former presidents speech, obtained and reviewed by The Guardian, Trump claimed the United States is going to hell if Vice President Kamala Harris wins and that terrorists, prisoners and people in mental institutions were being sent from other countries.
At one point, he falsely claimed 22 people were released from prisons in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
We said, Where do you come from? Trump reportedly said in the speech in Aspen, Colorado. They said, Prison. What did you do?? None of your f***ing business what we did. You know why Because theyre murderers.
There is no evidence that prisoners from the DRC are being released to the United States, and a spokesperson for the countrys government told CNN everything [Trump] is saying isnt true. The Independent asked the Trump campaign for comment.
The anti-immigration claim is a familiar one Trump makes at his rallies where he falsely tells supporters that Central and South American countries are releasing terrorists or prisoners into the U.S. to commit what Trump calls ?migrant crime?.
Crime rates do not support the allegations, and studies have shown immigrants are less likely to commit violent crimes than U.S. citizens. Additionally, fewer people are crossing the U.S.Mexico border than in 2019.
The private fundraiser on August 10 was hosted by a group of investment executives and billionaires, including Andrew McKenna Jr., the son of former chair of McDonalds Andrew McKenna and Duke Buchan III, the CEO and founder of Hunter Global Investors and former Republican National Committee finance chair.
Fundraiser attendees were required to pay anywhere from $25,000 to $500,000 per couple.
Donors who attended the fundraiser told The Daily Beast in August that Trump was ?not angry at all at the event, describing him as funny and disciplined. Another person, whose parent attended the fundraiser, told The Beast that the former presidents speech was actually boring.
MORE; Prosecutor Fani Willis FLUSH With Campaign Cash From Georgia Voters to Keep Targeting TRUMP
The Georgia prosecutor who charged former President Donald Trump with an illegal attempt to overturn 2020 election result in her swing state is raking in so much campaign cash that its making headlines.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has raised a staggering $2.1 million as she and Trump run for re-election, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported Wednesday.
In the local newspaper's morning newsletter, the story of Willis' funding topped updates about Hollywood star Julia Roberts (who will campaign for Vice President Kamala Harris)
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported Willis, who still has $800,000 on hand, has raised more than candidates in several statewide races in 2022, just to continue prosecuting Trump
Trump is just one of several big-name defendants Willis has slapped with criminal charges, but his election racketeering case may be the most closely watched.
Trump pleaded not guilty to charges that he spread voter fraud lies as he tried to bully state officials into appointing pro-Trump electors.
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Jack Smiths Evidence CONFIRMS Trump is Responsible For Jan 6 Capitol Riots
Jack Smiths Appendix of Evidence to Be Released Today After Devastating Opinion
NEW Jack Smith Filing Asserts Trump is Responsible For Jan. 6 Capitol Riots
MSNRAW 18 OCT 2024
The federal judge overseeing Donald Trumps election interference case in Washington, D.C. released a "devastating" five-page opinion on Thursday night that will allow for the release Friday of an appendix full of evidence the former president, according to a former federal prosecutor.
Judge Tanya Chutkan last week ruled that she would make special counsel Jack Smith's appendix public, but allowed Trump time to weigh his options. On Thursday, he requested to delay her pause in the case until Nov. 14 ? after the election. Late Thursday, the judge swatted away the attempt in what former Alabama federal prosecutor Joyce Vance called a "devastating" opinion.
In her newsletter, "Civil Discourse," Vance highlighted "old school" Chutkan's key points worth noting, including that the public ought to have access to "all facets" of criminal proceedings.
"Documents should only be kept under seal where the circumstances of the case or interests of the parties outweigh the public?s?and the press?s?First Amendment rights," Vance wrote.
Trump sought to keep the appendix of evidence sealed but failed to persuade the judge, who laid out six factors that courts can use to test whether such evidence ought to be kept sealed.
Instead, he cited other arguments ? which she "swats aside" ? including that future jurors could become tainted by Smith's evidence and that the public shouldn't be misled by the Supreme Courts presidential immunity ruling by "one-sided submissions."
"Judge Chutkan has a reputation for being efficient and no-nonsense.
What TRUMP Will Do On His Legal Problems-Jack Smith Winds Down Criminal Cases
Here is What The Election Results Mean For TRUMPs Legal Problems
US Special Counsel Jack Smith, To Wind Down Criminal Cases Against Trump
Jack Smiths case would not be finished before inauguration, after which Trump could prohibit prosecutors from pursuing it
The Guardian 7 NOV 2024
Now that President elect Donald Trump has emerged victorious in the 2024 election, Politico has done a rundown of what it means for the multiple criminal charges that have been leveled against him.
In short, Politico finds that Trump is now his own judge and jury, insulated from the criminal consequences he might have faced without the legal force field of the Oval Office.
Once he returns to the Oval Office next year, Trump will almost certainly fire special counsel Jack Smith, who indicted Trump for trying to subvert the 2020 presidential election and for stashing top-secret government documents at his Mar-a-Lago resort.
Trump will also appoint an attorney general who will drop ALL charges against him, according to prior statements.
US Special Counsel to Wind Down Criminal Cases Against Trump
Special counsel prosecutors will shut down their criminal cases against Donald Trump before he takes office, according to two people with direct knowledge of the matter, after his stunning victory against Kamala Harris meant they would not proceed to trial.
The move reflects the reality that the cases will not be completed before inauguration day. Once the former president returns to the White House, the special counsels office would be prohibited from pursuing further criminal actions under justice department policy.
The justice department has long known that if Trump won, the criminal cases over Trumps retention of classified documents and his efforts to overturn the 2020 election would be finished because Trumps attorney general would likely drop the charges. But it is also understood to be a preemptive measure to ensure that Trump will not be able to order the dismissal of the special counsel, Jack Smith, as he had vowed to do if he takes office and Smith remained in his role.
That possibility had been relished by Trumps close aides and advisers, who privately imagined Trump ordering Smiths removal and his team having to vacate their office space in Washington.
The justice department is still examining how to wind down the cases, which are in different stages and are complicated. In particular, the department does not want the classified documents case, which was dismissed and currently under appeal, to go unchallenged.
Failure to pursue an appeal over the dismissal of the classified documents case on grounds that the special counsel himself was illegally appointed could set a problematic precedent and hamper the departments ability to use special counsels in the future.
What Donald Trumps Win Means For Ukraine, Middle East, And Russia
Donald Trumps return to the White House is set to reshape US foreign policy, promising potentially radical shifts on multiple fronts as war and uncertainty grip parts of the world.
During his campaign, Trump made broad policy pledges, often lacking specific details, based on principles of non-interventionism and trade protectionism - or as he puts it America First.
His victory signals one of the most significant potential disruptions in many years in Washingtons approach to foreign affairs in the midst of parallel crises
A very VERY sad day for American democracy and just how much, if any, the US will be respected in the world
2 Key Categories That Could Be Released / Declassified in Jack Smiths' Final Repo
Prosecutor Flags 2 Key Categories That Could Be Released in Jack Smiths' Final Reports
Two categories are worth keeping an eye on that could be released in the final reports: Classified Information and Grand Jury Records.
MSNRAW 14 NOV 2024
With Trump just weeks away from returning to office and all but sure to immediately fire Smith there is little time for the special counsel to complete his final reports, Wehle wrote, where she urged Attorney General Merrick Garland to release the final reports.
Biden could declassify parts of the Mar-a-Lago records for no other reason than to preserve for posterity the facts regarding Trumps alleged national security crimes Wehle wrote. If the records of the investigation arent declassified and published before the change in administrations, Trump will undoubtedly order them all destroyed
An action that the Supreme Courts ruling in Trump v. U.S. would insulate from scrutiny.
She said the grand jury material could be released the same way Kenneth Starr made public grand jury material in the Bill Clinton matter with the judges overseeing the cases signing off on it under Rule 6 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure.
In the meantime, Wehle concluded, anyone who worked on the investigations prosecutors, FBI agents, paralegals, analysts will have to worry about getting a new job.
They may even have to consult a criminal defense attorney too, given Trumps promise to retaliate against those who prosecuted him, she added.
__________________ 6000 PLUS Cases-He's LOST ALL Heard So Far: TRUMPs Onslaught of Lawyers are 'Hitting a Wall' -Judges & Cases Lining Up Against TRUMP
France To Ask For Statue of Liberty Back -No Longer Fits 'Freedom' Under TRUMP.. AND Starmers REVOLTING Betrayal of Britain Will NEVER Be Forgiven
TRUMPs' REVENGE -Clear & Present Danger -People Who Worship at The Altar of Trump Will KNEEL, NOT STAND Up to Him
Jack Smith DROPS Two FED Criminal Cases Without Prejudice Before Inauguration
Prosecutors DROP Election Interference and Documents Cases Against TRUMP - "Without Prejudice."
Special counsel Jack Smith dismisses the two federal criminal cases before president-elects? inauguration
While Trumps Criminal Cases Are On Hold, His Civil Cases Will Continue Full Speed Ahead
The Guardian 25 NOV 2024
Special counsel prosecutors dismissed the two federal criminal cases against Donald Trump in separate court filings on Monday, as they bowed to the reality that they would not be completed or proceed to trial before Trump returns to the presidency next year.
The withdrawals marked the end of the years-long legal battle between Trump and the special counsel Jack Smith, and reflected the extraordinary ability of Trump to sidestep an indictment that would have sunk the presidential bid of anyone else.
Trumps election victory was always going to spell the end of the criminal cases against him over Trumps retention of classified documents and his efforts to overturn the 2020 election due to justice department policy that prohibits taking criminal action against a sitting president.
But the withdrawals also showed just how successfully Trump, with help from sympathetic judges, managed to beat the justice system with an audacious play of using a presidential campaign and the political calendar to sidestep deeply perilous charges.
In a six-page motion to dismiss the 2020 election interference case, prosecutors said even though Trump was not yet president, they had been told by the departments office of legal counsel, which provides internal legal advice, to withdraw the case before his inauguration in January.
It has long been the position of the Department of Justice that the United States Constitution forbids the federal indictment and subsequent criminal prosecution of a sitting President, wrote Smiths top deputy, Molly Gaston.
That prohibition is categorical and does not turn on the gravity of the crimes charged, the strength of the Governments proof, or the merits of the prosecution, which the Government stands fully behind, she added.
Moments later, prosecutors told the US court of appeals for the 11th circuit that they were withdrawing their challenge against the earlier dismissal of the classified documents case with respect to Trump.
But they said they would continue trying to bring cases against Trumps co-defendants Walt Nauta and Carlos De Oliveira - although it was unclear whether those charges would also be dropped once Trumps loyalist attorney general pick, Pam Bondi, takes over the justice department.
From the Mar-a-Lago club in Florida, the site of the presidential transition where Trump allegedly stashed 101 classified documents after he left office and was indicted after ignoring a subpoena for their return, Trumps communications director, Steven Cheung, issued a gleeful statement on the news.
Todays decision by the DOJ ends the unconstitutional federal cases against President Trump, and is a major victory for the rule of law. The American People and President Trump want an immediate end to the political weaponization of our justice system,? Cheung wrote.
Within days of Trumps victory, prosecutors started examining how to shut down the 2020 election case in federal district court in Washington, and the more complicated matter of the classified documents case that was before the US court of appeals for the 11th circuit.
For months, Trumps overarching legal strategy was to delay the criminal cases until after Tuesdays election banking on the fact that if he won he could appoint a loyalist attorney general who would simply drop the prosecutions.
__________________ 6000 PLUS Cases-He's LOST ALL Heard So Far: TRUMPs Onslaught of Lawyers are 'Hitting a Wall' -Judges & Cases Lining Up Against TRUMP
France To Ask For Statue of Liberty Back -No Longer Fits 'Freedom' Under TRUMP.. AND Starmers REVOLTING Betrayal of Britain Will NEVER Be Forgiven
TRUMPs' REVENGE -Clear & Present Danger -People Who Worship at The Altar of Trump Will KNEEL, NOT STAND Up to Him
Jack Smith Under Concocted Investigation Over Probes Into Trump
Jack Smith Under Concocted Investigation Over Probes Into Trump
Trumps Office of Special Counsel has launched an investigation into former special counsel Jack Smith, the prosecutor who tried to hold Donald Trump accountable for his alleged crimes
MSRAW 3 AUG 2025
The probe comes as Trumps administration accuses Smith of alleged violations of the Hatch Act, which limits political activities by government workers. Both of Smiths criminal cases were dropped after Trump came to power
The investigation is being driven by Trumps attack dog Sen. Tom Cotton, who baselessly claimed earlier this week that Smith used his DOJ role to influence the election by investigating Trump for alleged attempts to subvert the 2020 election storing classified documents in his Mar a Lago club
Cotton took issue with Smith filing court documents within 60 days of Election Day.
The Office of the Special Counsel, though officially independent of the government, is now run by a Trump appointee after the president fired the previous Biden appointed head.
Ironically, 13 officials from Trumps own first administration were found to have violated the Hatch Act in 2021
Trumps 'Puppet' Files Ethics Complaint Against Jack Smith-Smith Responds
Imaginary and Unfounded Jack Smith Responds to Ethics Complaint Filed by Trumps 'Puppet'
Jack Smiths legal team have filed their first response to ethics complaints filed against him by Trump & His Allies
MSRAW 27 AUG 2025
Sen. Tom Cotton persuaded the Office of Special Counsel, which has no affiliation with Smiths role during Joe Bidens presidency, to investigate whether he violated the law by seeking to quickly bring Trump to trial But Smith and his lawyers Lanny Breuer and Peter Koski challenged the allegations in a three page letter to the acting special counsel Jamieson Greer, reported the New York Times
The predicate for this investigation is imaginary and unfounded, they wrote. Mr. Smith followed well established legal principles in conducting the investigations into Trump, and the courts presiding over the resulting prosecutions have already rejected the spurious allegations that the manner in which Mr. Smith prosecuted these cases was somehow improper
Cotton accused the former special counsel, who was appointed by former Attorney General Merrick Garland and resigned after Trumps election, of having no rationale except for an attempt to affect the 2024 election results with his investigations of the once and future president during Bidens presidency.
This investigation is premised on a partisan complaint that suggests the ordinary operation of the criminal justice system should be disrupted by the whims of a political contest, Smith's lawyers wrote. But the notion that justice should yield to politics is antithetical to the rule of law
The letter noted that Greers office has publicly confirmed the ethics investigation, but they wrote that neither Smith nor his lawyers have received any inquiries from his office, and they urged him not to reach a conclusion without engaging.
We welcome the opportunity to engage with your office and are confident that as you become familiar with the facts and the record, you will conclude that there is no basis to find a violation of the Hatch Act and that these allegations are wholly without merit, the letter stated.
I just dont see how this comes anywhere close to a Hatch Act violation, Painter said. If Smith had made public statements shortly before the election about the filings, we would have an issue that would need to be addressed. Or if he'd written Congress, it would need to be addressed
I see NO evidence that Jack Smith did anything of the kind. He simply filed pleadings with the court, and the pleadings were accepted by the courts
Jack Smith Talks About Trump Investigation For First Time
Jack Smith Speaks Out About Trump Investigation For First Time
Jack Smith Talks Against The Trump Administration in Rare Interview
The former special counsel warned of threats to public servants and the independence of the judiciary in an interview at University College London Faculty of Laws.
AP 15 OCT 2025
Jack Smith, the special counsel who brought two criminal cases against Donald Trump, spoke out against the Trump administration in a rare interview posted Tuesday.
Smith, who resigned from the Justice Department in January shortly before Trump returned to office as president, warned that attacks on public servants would have an incalculable cost on the country.
I think the attacks on public servants, particularly nonpartisan public servants I think it has a cost for our country that is incalculable, and I think that its hard to communicate to folks how much that is going to cost us, Smith said in an interview last week with former federal prosecutor Andrew Weissman at University College London Faculty of Laws, where Weissman is a visiting professor.
Smiths investigation led to two indictments against Trump, one for his handling of classified documents and another for his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election. Trump denied all wrongdoing and blasted both cases as politically motivated witch hunts
CROOKED U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, a Trump nominee, dismissed the classified documents case on the grounds that Smith's appointment was illegal. Smith dropped the 2020 election case after Trumps November win, citing DOJ policy on prosecuting sitting presidents.
In a report released before he resigned in January, Smith said Trump inspired his supporters to commit acts of physical violence on Jan. 6, adding he believed Trump would have been convicted for his acts had he not been re elected president last year.
Since he assumed office in January, Trump has repeatedly blasted Smith, calling him deranged. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, asked Smith on Tuesday to testify about his prosecutions of Trump.
In his interview with Weissman, Smith warned of threats to the independence of the judiciary, saying judges and prosecutors should not be thinking of their jobs as popularity contests.
They need the room and space to make decisions that some people might not like, Smith said.
The Justice Department under Trump has taken swift action against people who worked on the criminal and civil cases against him
2020 Election FRAUD: NEW 11th-Hour Filing Made on TRUMPs CRIMINAL Indictments
2020-BRILLIANT- Smith Made Judge Chutkans Job Easier in New TRUMP Criminal Filing
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2 Key Categories That Could Be Released / Declassified in Jack Smiths' Final Repo
Jack Smith Under Concocted Investigation Over Probes Into Trump
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