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U.S. prosecutors detail evidence in Trump election subversion case

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Trump’s lawyers opposed allowing Smith to issue a sweeping court filing laying out their evidence, arguing it would be inappropriate to do so weeks before the election.

I have no doubt the Harris campaign will win in November, but it is hard to believe that voters would vote for a candidate who tried to steal the last election.

The public has a right to know what Trump and his people were doing to subvert democracy last time.

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the october surprise.

when aids rushed to trump to tell them mike pence was in danger at the capitol, trump's response was, “so what?”

vile human being.

whatever you think of pence, you have to give him lot of credit for his respect for the law and the constitution. imagine if he was not man enough to stand up to trump?

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Cephus

liberal desperation after botching hurricane response and getting destroyed in the debate."

When they have no other way out, they shamelessly turns to kangaroo courts to be their savior. Never worked and it won't 

Check the evidence. This is no trivial case. Subverting democracy affects every American.

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What the hell is this traitor doing even walking around and talking trash like he always does? After all he has done he should be behind bars in solitary confinement for the rest of his life.

a White House staffer heard Trump tell family members that "it doesn't matter if you won or lost the election. You still have to fight like hell." It also alleges that on Jan 1, 2021, Trump told his vice president, Mike Pence, that people "are gonna hate your guts" and "think you're stupid" if he didn't use his role presiding over the Jan 6, 2021, congressional certification of the election result to benefit Trump.

Those J6 traitors were going to hang everyone in the Capitol Building of ALL parties, and they had a noose ready for Mike Pence too. Anybody who supports and or endorses trump, let alone believes his hateful lies is stupid and does not respect American democracy or its principals.

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Jan 6 is not an election issue even in the top 20.

Great. You can stop calling the case ‘election interference’ then.

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Then Smith wouldn’t have need to make this public 34 days before an election

That's Trump's fault. He's the one who asked the courts to find him above the law. whine moar.

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you know, this whole thing looks more like treason.

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It’s not going to go away.

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Criminals must be told that their civil liberties end when an attack on our safety begins. The prime suspect in a far-reaching criminal investigation would make it virtually impossible to govern. A criminal is a criminal, they generally stay a criminal, and we do not have time to figure it out.

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Jan 6 is not an election issue even in the top 20.

Well that's your opinion. But many of us are concerned that Donald J Trump tried to disenfranchise the American people and install himself as ruler following an election he knows he didn't win. If one is a Fascist, I can see why one wouldn't care about that though.

it only made the VP debate at the very end from biased moderators to try to help Walz win at least one exchange with Vance.

Yes. And it was very telling. JD Vance who called Trump America's Hitler did a complete 180, because he cynically hopes he can inherit Trump's political real estate.

 short people were taking pictures standing next to it with their feet touching the ground.

hahahaha Yeah, those gallows weren't real and were actually small. They just looked big next to short people. lmao

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Then Smith wouldn’t have need to make this public 34 days before an election

Read the first sentence of the article. Then paragraph 3.

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Did the left learn any brand new “bombshell” information from this curiously timed release from failed “jack Smith”?

Uh yes, actually. Having read the article and about a quarter of the unsealed document, we did learn quite a bit.

Trump by his own words knew there was no outcome determinative election fraud. In his own words, he said Sidney Powell's fraud claims were nonsense.

He knew he was likely to lead as in person votes were counted, and that the numbers would likely shift towards democrats as mail in ballots were counted.

He knew the election was unlikely to be determined on election night, but that didn't stop him from claiming he won.

He began laying the groundworks for denying the election results by claiming the only way he could possible lose in 2020 was if there was election fraud. This, by the way, is the same thing Trump fans are now claiming.

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Blacklabel

Did the left learn any brand new “bombshell” information from this curiously timed release from failed “jack Smith”?

The Supreme Court drove the timing of this.

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Blacklabel

Great. You can stop calling the case ‘election interference’ then.

Still interfering because the left is desperately still trying to make this an election issue. as a distraction to replace something actual important that is “inconvenient” for them. (Economy, inflation, immigration, foreign policy, wars)

Trump being a threat to democracy is a top priority for many voters.

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Blacklabel

I think Judge Chutkan will determine what are official acts.

and the Supreme Court will correct her biased judgement. Darn, huh? 

Unlikely.

sure wish it was like the other cases where your biased judge is the only and final word, huh? 

So far an unbiased jury has had the final word.

Spoiler alert: those cases will be thrown out soon too.

I doubt that Harris will would touch these cases. Unlike Trump, she doesn’t believe that the White House should interfere with the justice department.

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bass4funk

That's Trump's fault. He's the one who asked the courts to find him above the law. whine moar.

Trump released the documents?? What?

That’s part of the judicial process of Chutkan determining what acts are presidential or not.

The documents being public isn’t controversial.

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Wrong. We know who didn't bother reading the unsealed document or the article.

Sounds like more political desperate digging

Which is another way of saying, “Yup, I read neither, and I’m proud of it.”

But, to be fair, it is too time-consuming to jump from article to article and switch between two handles and read the relevant materials.

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Trump is furious that this previously unknown evidence will come to light just before the election.

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Trump spokesperson Steven Cheung blasted the disclosures, saying, "This entire case is a partisan, Unconstitutional Witch Hunt that should be dismissed entirely, together with ALL of the remaining Democrat hoaxes."

You can here Trump’s voice in that.

Trump certainly doesn’t want to face the consequences for his crimes.

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I'd love to see something happen here, but I bet nothing will. For all his faults, Trump appears to be made of teflon. He's been found guilty on charges of sexual assault and falsifying business records and he's still out there campaigning.

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Your Jack Smith claims they were gonna hang people.

Your candidate for president tried to defraud the US, and disenfrachise the American people.

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So nothing new as we heard all of those accusations, with no evidence, years ago.

Wrong. We know who didn't bother reading the unsealed document or the article.

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Blacklabel

but I also learned from the Supreme Court that official acts of Trump as president and Mike as VP preclude poor Jack from using any of their conversations/orders as elected boss and selected employee.

I think Judge Chutkan will determine what are official acts.

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The “noose” is 4 feet above the bottom, at the most.

Oh, well, when you put it that way. Trump's lying and attempt at disenfrachising the people totally don't matter. reeeee

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I still don't understand how a convicted felon, out on bail in 4 jurisdictions, can be out there campaigning to become president of the USA. Disgusting, an embarrassment!

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Good thing we have an election coming up (that most of you can’t vote in) to decide the direction of our country.

And if Harris wins it and Trump fails to get his buddies on the Supreme Court to overturn it (and if he can't convince the Gravy Seals, Meal Team Six, and Y'all Qaeda to go out there and riot for him), the yelling of "rigged", "stolen", etc. will start all over again. The eternal cycle.

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More damning evidence....but the key is one we already knew...

Greg Jacobs, Mile Pence's legal counsel, testifying that John Eastman, the author of the coup plot to use fake, fraudulent state elector lists, admitted he had personally told Trump that the plan VIOLATED FEDERAL LAW...and Trump went ahead with it anyway...

https://time.com/6188491/john-eastman-jan-6-testimony-trump/

Game over....get ready to add more felony convictions to the 34 he already has...

Goodbye MAL, Hello Rikers Island...

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That there is new evidence directly tying Trump to crimes that were not core duties and for which (in spite of the efforts of his toadies on SCOTUS) he has serious criminal liability is well-documented and other posters have covered admirably.

I will focus on the continued legal incompetence of his Z-list lawyers.

In response to requests to keep the brief under seal, Chutkan delivers what can only be called “the chef’s kiss” From the AP:

"Defendant's opposition brief repeatedly accuses the Government of bad-faith partisan bias," the judge wrote. "These accusations, for which Defendant provides no support, continue a pattern of defense filings focusing on political rhetoric rather than addressing the legal issues at hand."

"Not only is that focus unresponsive and unhelpful to the court, but it is also unbefitting of experienced defense counsel and undermining of the judicial proceedings in this case," Chutkan wrote. "Future filings should be directed to the issues before the court."

This is as close as a federal judge comes to saying “Geat your weak-a— political ramblings out of my court.”

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bass4funk

That’s part of the judicial process of Chutkan determining what acts are presidential or not.

Knowing full well none of this will go to trial this year and 34 days before an election? So why not wait until after the election?

Why would the judge do that? Let it go ahead and let's see the evidence. To pretend that this is election interference is pathetic.

The documents being public isn’t controversial.

Oh, of course not. They just want to inject the information right before the election.

Why not? It's the truth. But the timing isn't suspect here.

Walz loses the debate as well as Biden and Myorkas don’t visit the site before Trump and then they say there’s no FEMA aid available, gee, what can we do the change the narrative, I got an idea….yo, Jack…

The timing was decided before any of these events, so nice try but no cigar.

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Blacklabel

Your Jack Smith claims they were gonna hang people.

ummm with what? That tiny thing not hanging nobody.

I distinctly remember chants of "Hang Mike Pence".

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Would you buy a watch from this man? He's flogging "Swiss" watches now.

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bass4funkToday  07:47 am JST

What the hell is this **traitor** doing even walking around and talking trash like he always does?

Because he can, because people are voting for him and wanting him back in the White House,

Unless they're registered to vote in swing states what they want doesn't matter. I presume you're not voting in Pennsylvania, Ohio, North Carolina, Georgia, Arizona or Michigan either. Are you? If not your opinion matters just about as much as a European person's.

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Priorities.

On one side trying to uphold a semblance of law and order and accountability.

On the other a felon selling cheap coins, bibles and other assorted tat to pay his legal fees.

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Still interfering because the left is desperately still trying to make this an election issue. as a distraction to replace something actual important that is “inconvenient” for them

lmao This isn't election interference. If Twump was so worried about this hamstringing his campaign, he didn't have to go to SC to hold himself above the law. He could also just drop out, but then he wouldn't be able to line his pockets with taxpayer money.

sure wish it was like the other cases where your biased judge is the only and final word, huh?

Totally. Every judge that doesn't side with me is biased. Just like every election I lose is because of fraud. With Fascists it's always "heads I win, tails you lose." These fascist creeps need to be soundly beaten at the polls in 11/5.

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You never tell a judge , something inappropriate,unless you have the evidence,or you will feel their rapture

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That’s part of the judicial process of Chutkan determining what acts are presidential or not.

34 days before an election, there’s time, why not wait until after the election or next year?

Why would the judge do that?

Why not?

Let it go ahead and let's see the evidence.

But why now, nothing most people don’t already know

To pretend that this is election interference is pathetic.

Ok, to you, not to half of the country

The documents being public isn’t controversial.

Oh, of course not. They just want to inject the information right before the election. 

Why not? It's the truth. But the timing isn't suspect here.

Walz loses the debate as well as Biden and Myorkas don’t visit the site before Trump and then they say there’s no FEMA aid available, gee, what can we do the change the narrative, I got an idea….yo, Jack…

It absolutely is, Smith could have brought these charges months ago. He already had every single thing he needed.

The timing was decided before any of these events, so nice try but no cigar.

Wrong, but let them try and waste their time again. It’s just odd, but knowing this judge hates Trump with a passion, none of us are surprised.

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That’s part of the judicial process of Chutkan determining what acts are presidential or not.

Knowing full well none of this will go to trial this year and 34 days before an election? So why not wait until after the election?

The documents being public isn’t controversial.

Oh, of course not. They just want to inject the information right before the election. Walz loses the debate as well as Biden and Myorkas don’t visit the site before Trump and then they say there’s no FEMA aid available, gee, what can we do the change the narrative, I got an idea….yo, Jack…

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Great. You can stop calling the case ‘election interference’ then.

Then Smith wouldn’t have need to make this public 34 days before an election

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So nothing new as we heard all of those accusations, with no evidence, years ago.

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I think Judge Chutkan will determine what are official acts.

and the Supreme Court will correct her biased judgement. Darn, huh?

sure wish it was like the other cases where your biased judge is the only and final word, huh?

Spoiler alert: those cases will be thrown out soon too.

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Did the left learn any brand new “bombshell” information from this curiously timed release from failed “jack Smith”?

Are the walls (Walz) closing in again?!

Did you finally “get him”?

Rykers and Leavenworth at same time?

if this even mattered, Trump wouldn’t even be a candidate much less winning as he is right now in the electoral college.

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Myself? I learned Trump and Mike Pence have lunch together more than I thought.

but I also learned from the Supreme Court that official acts of Trump as president and Mike as VP preclude poor Jack from using any of their conversations/orders as elected boss and selected employee.

being President anyone can tell the VP what to do. And take or ignore their advice. Kinda how that “vice” part and not being elected works.

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Great. You can stop calling the case ‘election interference’ then.

Still interfering because the left is desperately still trying to make this an election issue. as a distraction to replace something actual important that is “inconvenient” for them. (Economy, inflation, immigration, foreign policy, wars)

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That's Trump's fault. He's the one who asked the courts to find him above the law. whine moar.

Trump released the documents?? What?

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Wrong. We know who didn't bother reading the unsealed document or the article.

Sounds like more political desperate digging.

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Good thing we have an election coming up (that most of you can’t vote in) to decide the direction of our country.

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*What the hell is this traitor doing even walking around and talking trash like he always does? *

Because he can, because people are voting for him and wanting him back in the White House, blew that traitor argument to pieces.

After all he has done he should be behind bars in solitary confinement for the rest of his life. 

You mean after all they have done for him these people be behind bars in solitary confinement for life and that includes Steele.

Those J6 traitors were going to hang everyone in the Capitol Building of ALL parties,

Huh?

and they had a noose ready for Mike Pence too.

How do you know this? Because someone yelled it? So do you think Kathy Griffin should be locked up for displaying a mocked bloody severed head of Trump? Yes/No?

Anybody who supports and or endorses trump, let alone believes his hateful lies is stupid and does not respect American democracy or its principals.

Well, we all have our opinions, then we just won’t get respect, we’ll live.

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Jan 6 is not an election issue even in the top 20.

it only made the VP debate at the very end from biased moderators to try to help Walz win at least one exchange with Vance.

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The “gallows” that “they” were going to use to “hang everyone” was placed there by unknown parties sometime before people even arrived.

it was like 4 feet tall, short people were taking pictures standing next to it with their feet touching the ground.

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Your Jack Smith claims they were gonna hang people.

ummm with what? That tiny thing not hanging nobody.

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