Trump supporters behaving like the bags of ass that they are
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If this is true, "a few knuckleheads went off and did something they shouldn't do", then why is trump calling them true patriots and heroes that he'll pardon if re-elected. He doesn't know the definition of a few. That few as a collective battled a professional police force for hours and then nearly overturned the constitution by denying a bedrock process to go forward. Oh, and people died as a result of those "knuckleheads" doing "something they shouldn't do".
Donald Trump bears responsibility for Jan. 6 attack, Jack Smith argues in new filing
The special counsel says Trump "willfully caused his supporters to obstruct and attempt to obstruct" the certification of Joe Biden's victory in 2020.
By Ryan J. Reilly
October 16, 2024
www.nbcnews.com
Special counsel Jack Smith delivers remarks on an unsealed indictment against Trump on June 9, 2023.
Judge in Trump's Jan. 6 case rejects 'strained' argument about his false 2020 election claims
Judge Tanya Chutkan rejected most of Trump's lawyer's attempts to compel prosecutors to hand over more evidence in their case.
By Ryan J. Reilly
October 16, 2024
www.nbcnews.com
The special counsel says Trump "willfully caused his supporters to obstruct and attempt to obstruct" the certification of Joe Biden's victory in 2020.
By Ryan J. Reilly
October 16, 2024
Donald Trump bears responsibility for Jan. 6 attack, Jack Smith argues in new filing
The special counsel says Trump "willfully caused his supporters to obstruct and attempt to obstruct" the certification of Joe Biden's victory in 2020.
Special counsel Jack Smith delivers remarks on an unsealed indictment against Trump on June 9, 2023.
Judge in Trump's Jan. 6 case rejects 'strained' argument about his false 2020 election claims
Judge Tanya Chutkan rejected most of Trump's lawyer's attempts to compel prosecutors to hand over more evidence in their case.
By Ryan J. Reilly
October 16, 2024
Judge in Trump's Jan. 6 case rejects 'strained' argument about his false 2020 election claims
Judge Tanya Chutkan rejected most of Trump's lawyer's attempts to compel prosecutors to hand over more evidence in their case.
Special counsel releases trove of redacted documents in 2020 election subversion case against Trump
By Jeremy Herb, Devan Cole, Holmes Lybrand, Hannah Rabinowitz and John Fritze, CNN
October 18, 2024
amp.cnn.com
Special counsel Jack Smith on Friday released nearly 2,000 heavily redacted pages of documents in his 2020 election subversion criminal case against former President Donald Trump, revealing snippets of the evidence Smith relied on to charge the former president.
Most of the pages are completely redacted and believed to include grand jury transcripts and notes from FBI interviews conducted during the yearslong investigation.
The documents that are visible largely contain information that’s already been released publicly, including a transcript of Trump’s call with the Georgia secretary of state after the 2020 election where Trump asked him to “find” votes, photos of the 2020 fake elector certificates, and Vice President Mike Pence’s letter to Congress explaining why he could not reject congressional certification of the election on January 6, 2021.
But the evidence publicly released Friday gives a glimpse into what Smith is using to prosecute Trump. In one instance, there was some new detail from the transcript of the House January 6 committee’s 2022 interview with an unnamed White House employee.
Earlier this year, House Republicans had released a transcript of the committee’s interview with the White House employee, but Republicans redacted some of the employee’s responses that Smith highlighted.
According to the transcript, the White House employee told Trump that TV networks had pulled away from his speech because “they’re rioting down at the Capitol.”
“And he was, like, What do you mean? I said, It’s, like, they’re rioting there at the Capitol. And he was, like, Oh, really? And then he was like, All right, let’s go see,” the employee said.
The employee told the committee he took off Trump’s outer coat, got a TV and handed Trump the remote, after which he went to retrieve a Diet Coke for the president, who was sitting in the Oval Dining Room.
“I’m taking off his outer coat that he’s wearing right now, and I get the TV, like, ready for him, and hand him over the remote, and he starts watching it,” the employee said. “And I stepped out to get him a Diet Coke, come back in, and that’s pretty much it for me as he’s watching it and, like, seeing it for himself.”
The redacted appendices filed on the public docket in the case are related to Smith’s expansive filing from earlier this month that laid out his fullest picture yet of the case against Trump and Smith’s belief that his actions around the 2020 election should not be shielded by presidential immunity.
The documents were released a day after Judge Tanya Chutkan rejected a bid by Trump to pause the release. Trump argued that posting the documents now could be seen as election inference and had asked them to remain under seal until after Election Day.
“If the court withheld information that the public otherwise had a right to access solely because of the potential political consequences of releasing it, that withholding could itself constitute – or appear to be – election interference,” Chutkan wrote in a decision late Thursday.
What’s in the files
The documents was released in four volumes Friday. Here’s what’s included amid the redacted, blank pages:
The first volume of evidence contains excerpts of various House January 6 committee’s interviews as part of the panel’s investigation into the Capitol riot.
The second volume is filled with sealed pages as well as tweets and other social media posts from Trump, his campaign and allies, including some posted during the January 6 Capitol riot.
One of the tweets include Trump’s post that day that Pence “didn’t have the courage to do what should have been done” that day in supporting his effort to change the election results.
Others include a myriad of claims of voter fraud during the 2020 election.
Prosecutors have argued that these tweets from Trump should be allowed to be used in the trial because they were personal in nature or part of his campaigning efforts and not his official duties as president.
The third volume contains photos of the signed fake elector certificates that Trump allies hoped would help reverse the 2020 election results, photos of pages of Pence’s 2022 autobiography, and the transcript from Trump’s January 2020 call with Georgia’s secretary of state.
The final volume includes memos from lawyer John Eastman with a plan for Pence to reject the congressional certification of the 2020 election. The volume also includes a public statement Trump released the night before January 6 claiming he and Pence were on the same page about the congressional certification, Trump’s prepared remarks for his speech on January 6 and fundraising emails sent out by his 2020 campaign in the days before January 6.
The documents also include a copy of a handwritten note containing a request for Pence to “reject” electors, a January 6-related budget and a transcript of Trump’s 2023 CNN town hall.
Prosecutors have charged Trump with four crimes stemming from his actions following his 2020 election loss, including conspiracy to defraud the United States and obstruction. Trump has pleaded not guilty.
In a blockbuster ruling this summer, the Supreme Court said that Trump enjoys partial presidential immunity for alleged crimes he committed while in office. Chutkan must now decide how to apply that ruling to the conduct at issue in this case.
This story has been updated with additional details.
By Jeremy Herb, Devan Cole, Holmes Lybrand, Hannah Rabinowitz and John Fritze, CNN
October 18, 2024
Special counsel releases trove of redacted documents in 2020 election subversion case against Trump | CNN Politics
Special counsel Jack Smith on Friday released nearly 2,000 heavily redacted pages of documents in his 2020 election subversion criminal case against former President Donald Trump, revealing snippets of the evidence Smith relied on to charge the former president.
Special counsel Jack Smith on Friday released nearly 2,000 heavily redacted pages of documents in his 2020 election subversion criminal case against former President Donald Trump, revealing snippets of the evidence Smith relied on to charge the former president.
Most of the pages are completely redacted and believed to include grand jury transcripts and notes from FBI interviews conducted during the yearslong investigation.
The documents that are visible largely contain information that’s already been released publicly, including a transcript of Trump’s call with the Georgia secretary of state after the 2020 election where Trump asked him to “find” votes, photos of the 2020 fake elector certificates, and Vice President Mike Pence’s letter to Congress explaining why he could not reject congressional certification of the election on January 6, 2021.
But the evidence publicly released Friday gives a glimpse into what Smith is using to prosecute Trump. In one instance, there was some new detail from the transcript of the House January 6 committee’s 2022 interview with an unnamed White House employee.
Earlier this year, House Republicans had released a transcript of the committee’s interview with the White House employee, but Republicans redacted some of the employee’s responses that Smith highlighted.
According to the transcript, the White House employee told Trump that TV networks had pulled away from his speech because “they’re rioting down at the Capitol.”
“And he was, like, What do you mean? I said, It’s, like, they’re rioting there at the Capitol. And he was, like, Oh, really? And then he was like, All right, let’s go see,” the employee said.
The employee told the committee he took off Trump’s outer coat, got a TV and handed Trump the remote, after which he went to retrieve a Diet Coke for the president, who was sitting in the Oval Dining Room.
“I’m taking off his outer coat that he’s wearing right now, and I get the TV, like, ready for him, and hand him over the remote, and he starts watching it,” the employee said. “And I stepped out to get him a Diet Coke, come back in, and that’s pretty much it for me as he’s watching it and, like, seeing it for himself.”
The redacted appendices filed on the public docket in the case are related to Smith’s expansive filing from earlier this month that laid out his fullest picture yet of the case against Trump and Smith’s belief that his actions around the 2020 election should not be shielded by presidential immunity.
The documents were released a day after Judge Tanya Chutkan rejected a bid by Trump to pause the release. Trump argued that posting the documents now could be seen as election inference and had asked them to remain under seal until after Election Day.
“If the court withheld information that the public otherwise had a right to access solely because of the potential political consequences of releasing it, that withholding could itself constitute – or appear to be – election interference,” Chutkan wrote in a decision late Thursday.
What’s in the files
The documents was released in four volumes Friday. Here’s what’s included amid the redacted, blank pages:
The first volume of evidence contains excerpts of various House January 6 committee’s interviews as part of the panel’s investigation into the Capitol riot.
The second volume is filled with sealed pages as well as tweets and other social media posts from Trump, his campaign and allies, including some posted during the January 6 Capitol riot.
One of the tweets include Trump’s post that day that Pence “didn’t have the courage to do what should have been done” that day in supporting his effort to change the election results.
Others include a myriad of claims of voter fraud during the 2020 election.
Prosecutors have argued that these tweets from Trump should be allowed to be used in the trial because they were personal in nature or part of his campaigning efforts and not his official duties as president.
The third volume contains photos of the signed fake elector certificates that Trump allies hoped would help reverse the 2020 election results, photos of pages of Pence’s 2022 autobiography, and the transcript from Trump’s January 2020 call with Georgia’s secretary of state.
The final volume includes memos from lawyer John Eastman with a plan for Pence to reject the congressional certification of the 2020 election. The volume also includes a public statement Trump released the night before January 6 claiming he and Pence were on the same page about the congressional certification, Trump’s prepared remarks for his speech on January 6 and fundraising emails sent out by his 2020 campaign in the days before January 6.
The documents also include a copy of a handwritten note containing a request for Pence to “reject” electors, a January 6-related budget and a transcript of Trump’s 2023 CNN town hall.
Prosecutors have charged Trump with four crimes stemming from his actions following his 2020 election loss, including conspiracy to defraud the United States and obstruction. Trump has pleaded not guilty.
In a blockbuster ruling this summer, the Supreme Court said that Trump enjoys partial presidential immunity for alleged crimes he committed while in office. Chutkan must now decide how to apply that ruling to the conduct at issue in this case.
This story has been updated with additional details.
California Man Arrested for Assaulting Law Enforcement and Other Charges During Jan. 6 Capitol Breach
Michael Fagundes, 49, of Costa Mesa, California, is charged in an indictment filed in the District of Columbia with three felony offenses, including two counts of assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers and one count of obstruction of law enforcement during a civil disorder. In addition to the felonies, Fagundes is charged with misdemeanor offenses of entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds, disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds, engaging in physical violence in a restricted building or grounds, disorderly conduct in a Capitol building, act of physical violence in the Capitol grounds or buildings, and parading demonstrating or picketing in a Capitol building.
U.S. Department of Justice
October 9, 2024
www.justice.gov
Michael Fagundes (circled) outside the U.S. Capitol on Jan 6, 2021
Virginia Man Pleads Guilty to Assaulting Law Enforcement During Jan. 6 Capitol Breach
Lewis Wayne Snoots, 59, of Louisa, Virginia, pleaded guilty to a single felony offense of assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers before U.S. District Judge Dabney L. Friedrich. Judge Friedrich will sentence Snoots on Jan. 17, 2025.
U.S. Department of Justice
October 10, 2024
www.justice.gov
The Justice Department said Lewis Wayne Snoots assaulted Metropolitan Police Officer Michael Fanone.
A still from the RF Angle Video showing SNOOTS and Officer Fanone (highlighted in red).
Michael Fagundes, 49, of Costa Mesa, California, is charged in an indictment filed in the District of Columbia with three felony offenses, including two counts of assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers and one count of obstruction of law enforcement during a civil disorder. In addition to the felonies, Fagundes is charged with misdemeanor offenses of entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds, disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds, engaging in physical violence in a restricted building or grounds, disorderly conduct in a Capitol building, act of physical violence in the Capitol grounds or buildings, and parading demonstrating or picketing in a Capitol building.
U.S. Department of Justice
October 9, 2024
California Man Arrested for Assaulting Law Enforcement and Other Charges During Jan. 6 Capitol Breach
A California man has been arrested for allegedly assaulting law enforcement and other charges related to his alleged conduct during the Jan. 6, 2021, breach of the U.S. Capitol. His alleged actions and the actions of others disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress convened to ascertain and...
Michael Fagundes (circled) outside the U.S. Capitol on Jan 6, 2021
Virginia Man Pleads Guilty to Assaulting Law Enforcement During Jan. 6 Capitol Breach
Lewis Wayne Snoots, 59, of Louisa, Virginia, pleaded guilty to a single felony offense of assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers before U.S. District Judge Dabney L. Friedrich. Judge Friedrich will sentence Snoots on Jan. 17, 2025.
U.S. Department of Justice
October 10, 2024
Virginia Man Pleads Guilty to Assaulting Law Enforcement During Jan. 6 Capitol Breach
A Virginia man pleaded guilty on Oct. 8, 2024, to assaulting law enforcement during the Jan. 6, 2021, breach of the U.S. Capitol. His actions and the actions of others disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress convened to ascertain and count the electoral votes related to the 2020...
The Justice Department said Lewis Wayne Snoots assaulted Metropolitan Police Officer Michael Fanone.
A still from the RF Angle Video showing SNOOTS and Officer Fanone (highlighted in red).
Midland, MI. man charged with assaulting Capitol police in Jan. 6 riots
By Cole Waterman
Oct. 12, 2024
www.mlive.com
Brien A. Burton, 44, is charged with the following seven federal offenses:
• Civil disorder
• Assaulting or impeding police officers
• Entering or remaining in a restricted building or grounds
• Disorderly or disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds
• Act of physical violence in a restricted building or grounds
• Disorderly conduct in a Capitol building or grounds
• Act of physical violence in a Capitol building or grounds
U.S. Capitol Police body cam footage shows Brien Burton charging a police officer.
Brien A. Burton
SENTENCING MEMO FOR MAN CONVICTED IN JAN. 6 RIOT WARNS OF 'RISK OF ANOTHER ATTACK'
There is "risk of another attack," which is a direct quote and an unwavering warning from the sentencing recommendation for Thomas B. Adams Jr., whose sentencing this week was moved until right after the November presidential election.
By Chuck Goudie
October 11, 2024
abc7.com
Thomas Adams seen in U.S. Capitol on right
Thomas Adams sentenced to 14 months on June 16th. 2023
By Cole Waterman
Oct. 12, 2024
Midland man charged with assaulting Capitol police in Jan. 6 riots
Officers' body-worn cameras captured Brien A. Burton storming the U.S. Capitol and attacking police.
Brien A. Burton, 44, is charged with the following seven federal offenses:
• Civil disorder
• Assaulting or impeding police officers
• Entering or remaining in a restricted building or grounds
• Disorderly or disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds
• Act of physical violence in a restricted building or grounds
• Disorderly conduct in a Capitol building or grounds
• Act of physical violence in a Capitol building or grounds
U.S. Capitol Police body cam footage shows Brien Burton charging a police officer.
Brien A. Burton
SENTENCING MEMO FOR MAN CONVICTED IN JAN. 6 RIOT WARNS OF 'RISK OF ANOTHER ATTACK'
There is "risk of another attack," which is a direct quote and an unwavering warning from the sentencing recommendation for Thomas B. Adams Jr., whose sentencing this week was moved until right after the November presidential election.
By Chuck Goudie
October 11, 2024
Sentencing memo for Thomas B. Adams Jr., Illinois man convicted in January 6 riot, warns of 'risk of another attack' | abc7.com
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Thomas Adams seen in U.S. Capitol on right
Thomas Adams sentenced to 14 months on June 16th. 2023
Jan. 6 rioter who allegedly built a giant 'Trump' billboard that was used to assault cops arrested
“I spent $700 on this," Jeffrey Newcomb allegedly wrote on X about the pro-Trump billboard used to assault officers. "Keeping my identity a secret because bullets are expensive.”
By Ryan J. Reilly
October 22, 2024
www.nbcnews.com
…Jeffrey Newcomb, a 41-year-old from Polk, Ohio, faces several charges, including felony counts of obstruction of law enforcement during civil disorder and assaulting, resisting or impeding federal officers while using or carrying a deadly or dangerous weapon. The FBI says he later bragged about his work on X...
Jeffrey Newcomb, circled in red, and others ram a giant Trump banner in the police line at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
Jeffrey Newcomb at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, with a banner in the background brought by him.
Jan. 6 rioter who assaulted police says she was 'duped' by Trump's election lies
Dana Jean Bell, who yelled at an officer who later died by suicide, "regrets ever having responded to Trump’s call,” her lawyer wrote. She was sentenced to 17 months in prison.
By Ryan J. Reilly
October 18, 2024
www.google.com
Jan. 6 rioter who attacked multiple officers sentenced to 17 months in prison
The widow of an MPD officer delivered an emotional victim impact statement.
ByEmily Chang
October 17, 2024,
abcnews.go.com
A Texas woman who pleaded guilty to assaulting police during the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol was sentenced to 17 months in prison on Thursday.
Dana Jean Bell's sentencing is just one among scores of other defendants set to face accountability for their roles in the attack on the U.S. Capitol in the coming weeks, even as former President Donald Trump attempts to rewrite the history of that day in his bid for reelection – including describing it as a "day of love" during a town hall Wednesday.…
Bell, assaulting news reporters and others on north lawn, on Jan. 6, 2021.
Bell physically assaults MPD Officer S.H. by throwing her elbow into his chest, on Jan. 6, 2021.
“I spent $700 on this," Jeffrey Newcomb allegedly wrote on X about the pro-Trump billboard used to assault officers. "Keeping my identity a secret because bullets are expensive.”
By Ryan J. Reilly
October 22, 2024
Jan. 6 rioter who allegedly built a giant 'Trump' billboard that was used to assault cops is arrested
“I spent $700 on this," Jeffrey Newcomb allegedly wrote on X about the pro-Trump billboard used to assault officers. "Keeping my identity a secret because bullets are expensive.”
…Jeffrey Newcomb, a 41-year-old from Polk, Ohio, faces several charges, including felony counts of obstruction of law enforcement during civil disorder and assaulting, resisting or impeding federal officers while using or carrying a deadly or dangerous weapon. The FBI says he later bragged about his work on X...
Jeffrey Newcomb, circled in red, and others ram a giant Trump banner in the police line at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
Jeffrey Newcomb at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, with a banner in the background brought by him.
Jan. 6 rioter who assaulted police says she was 'duped' by Trump's election lies
Dana Jean Bell, who yelled at an officer who later died by suicide, "regrets ever having responded to Trump’s call,” her lawyer wrote. She was sentenced to 17 months in prison.
By Ryan J. Reilly
October 18, 2024
Jan. 6 rioter who assaulted police says she was 'duped' by Trump's election lies
Dana Jean Bell, who yelled at an officer who later died by suicide, "regrets ever having responded to Trump’s call,” her lawyer wrote. She was sentenced to 17 months in prison.
www.google.com
Jan. 6 rioter who attacked multiple officers sentenced to 17 months in prison
The widow of an MPD officer delivered an emotional victim impact statement.
ByEmily Chang
October 17, 2024,
Jan. 6 rioter who attacked multiple officers sentenced to 17 months in prison
A Jan. 6 rioter who attacked multiple officers, including one who ultimately died, was sentenced to 17 months in prison on Thursday.
A Texas woman who pleaded guilty to assaulting police during the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol was sentenced to 17 months in prison on Thursday.
Dana Jean Bell's sentencing is just one among scores of other defendants set to face accountability for their roles in the attack on the U.S. Capitol in the coming weeks, even as former President Donald Trump attempts to rewrite the history of that day in his bid for reelection – including describing it as a "day of love" during a town hall Wednesday.…
Bell, assaulting news reporters and others on north lawn, on Jan. 6, 2021.
Bell physically assaults MPD Officer S.H. by throwing her elbow into his chest, on Jan. 6, 2021.
When told they are in a cult they will rage hard claiming they are not but then you see shit like this
Here’s What Was in the Big Jack Smith Evidence Document Unsealed Last Week
BY SHIRIN ALI
OCT 22, 2024
slate.com
Special counsel Jack Smith has had a busy few weeks, from making a trove of evidence in his Jan. 6 case public to defending the charges he’s pursuing against Donald Trump in a court filing submitted last week. Meanwhile, down in Georgia, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is also fighting to reinstate charges that a judge struck down in her massive election interference case.
Jack Smith Is Unsealing Even More Evidence
Last week, U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan released part two of special counsel Jack Smith’s opening brief, a massive document that laid out all of the evidence federal prosecutors intend to use to prosecute Trump. Now the appendix for that brief is available, and all told it’s nearly 1,900 pages long, broken into four sections. Though it is heavily redacted, it includes some communications between Trump’s campaign and attorneys in the lead-up to Jan. 6, alongside information that’s already publicly available, like Trump’s old tweets and excerpts from former Vice President Mike Pence’s book.
Trump’s defense attorneys tried to stop this appendix from becoming public, arguing that releasing it would amount to election interference. In the end, Chutkan sided with Smith, declaring that the public had a right to see this information. Here are the highlights of the special counsel’s latest court filing.
Volume I
The first part of Smith’s appendix, which clocks in at 723 pages, mostly covers testimony given to the House Jan. 6 committee, the investigative body established in the aftermath of the Jan. 6 insurrection. Almost all of the names of the individuals who spoke to lawmakers were redacted and plenty of pages were left completely blank, minus a big, capitalized heading that read “SEALED,” likely to respect Chutkan’s protective order that bans prosecutors and the defense from revealing names of potential witnesses.
Prosecutors did reveal that one interview the House Jan. 6 committee conducted was with a “White House employee” who was responding to photographs of himself and Trump taken shortly after the former president delivered his infamous speech at the Ellipse. The employee said he prepared a TV for Trump so that he could watch coverage of his speech, but had to tell the former president that “they cut it off because they’re rioting down at the Capitol.” The employee added that he handed Trump a TV remote and brought him a Diet Coke as he settled in to watch the footage of the riot.
Volume II
This section of Smith’s appendix consisted almost entirely of Trump’s old tweets, most of which were publicly available. The tweets demonstrate a consistent pattern of Trump falsely claiming the 2020 election was rigged and that he was the rightful winner, like when he posted ”I WON THE ELECTION!” on Nov. 16, 2020.
Smith also referenced Trump’s tweet about firing Christopher Krebs, former director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, after Krebs publicly called out Trump’s claims of voter fraud as “unsubstantiated or … technically incoherent.” About seven hours later, Trump tweeted that Krebs’ statement was “highly inaccurate” and that he was firing the director, effective immediately.
Volume III
The majority of this section is dedicated to the former vice president’s memoir, which was released in 2022. Prosecutors highlighted passages where Pence revealed how he tried and failed to get Trump to accept that he had lost the election to Joe Biden. “I tried to encourage him as a friend. I told him he had reinvented the Republican Party to be more courageous and more diverse, with more Latino, African American, and working-class voters than ever before,” Pence wrote.
Pence also concluded that “the words were true but seemed to be little consolation” to Trump. Prosecutors also emphasized passages where Pence described a meeting held about a week after Election Day with former Trump attorneys Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell that “quickly turned into a contentious back-and-forth,” Pence wrote. Referring to Justin Clark, a former Trump lawyer, Pence noted: “I will never forget the look on Justin’s face when Giuliani told the president over the speakerphone, ‘Your lawyers are not telling you the truth, Mr. President.’ ”
Another striking passage that prosecutors highlighted was when Pence referenced Trump’s tweet telling his followers about “Operation Pence Card,” which included an article that falsely claimed Pence had the power as president of the Senate to overrule states’ electoral vote certificates. “I showed it to Karen [Pence] and rolled my eyes, thinking, ‘Here we go.’ ”
Volume IV
The final section of Smith’s appendix includes a slew of internal communications between former Trump campaign officials and attorneys, including memos that detailed potential scenarios that could play out during the Senate’s electoral vote certification on Jan. 6. These are also heavily redacted, with the authors’ names and recipients of the memos hidden.
However, the memos still offer insight into how the Trump campaign was operating in the days and weeks following the 2020 election. One memo explained that Pence could announce that Arizona “has multiple slates of electors, and so is going to defer decision on that until finishing the other States. This would be the first break with the procedure set out in the [Electoral Count Act].”
Prosecutors included some images of notes taken by former Trump campaign officials and text message exchanges. There’s also an official letter written by Pence with the seal of the office of the vice president that was addressed to a “colleague” where he explained that he did not have the power to challenge the Jan. 6 electoral vote certification. “It is my considered judgment that my oath to support and defend the Constitution constrains me from claiming unilateral authority to determine which electoral votes should be counted and which should not,” Pence wrote.
A transcript of a Nov. 20, 2020, White House press briefing is also included, where Kayleigh McEnany, then White House press secretary, answered reporters’ questions and defended the Trump campaign’s various lawsuits against states that certified Biden’s victory. “There are very real claims out there that the campaign is pursuing—234 pages of affidavits publicly available in one county alone; that’s Wayne County,” McEnany said. She goes on to say that “This was a system that had never been tried in American history: mass mail-out voting. It’s one that we have identified as being particularly prone to fraud. So those claims deserve to be pursued.”
Smith Also Fights to Keep Trump’s Charges
When the special counsel filed a superseding indictment about two months ago, he did something controversial: Smith chose to keep the charge of obstruction of an official proceeding, despite the Supreme Court issuing a decision this year that narrowed the scope of Sarbanes-Oxley, the very law Smith is relying on for that charge. And last week, Smith defended his decision in a new court filing.
In Fischer v. United States, the Supreme Court ruled that a section of Sarbanes–Oxley, which makes it a crime to tamper with a record or otherwise impede an official proceeding, could not be used to charge scores of rioters who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6 because, the justices concluded, Sarbanes–Oxley only applies to interference with official documents. Trump’s defense attorneys argued this decision prevents Smith from charging Trump with obstruction, and that Fischer’s “logic fatally undermines” Smith’s remaining charges, and therefore his entire indictment should be dismissed.
Smith offered a different read on the situation by arguing that in its Fischer decision, the Supreme Court did not “strike down the statute or rewrite it,” but it did clarify that Sarbanes–Oxley “includes ‘creating false evidence.’ ” Smith insists that squarely applies to Trump and his efforts to create fraudulent electoral certificates across the swing states he lost to Biden, which were then intended to be introduced to Congress on Jan. 6, 2021.
The special counsel also hit back on Trump’s claims that he bears no responsibility for the insurrection, arguing that the former president “willfully caused his supporters to obstruct and attempt to obstruct the proceeding by summoning them to Washington, D.C., and then directing them to march to the Capitol to pressure the Vice President and legislators to reject the legitimate certificates and instead rely on the fraudulent electoral certificates.”
Fani Willis Wants Trump’s Charges Reinstated
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has asked a Georgia appeals court to reinstate six charges that were previously dismissed in her election interference case that indicted Trump and 18 others.
Back in March, Judge Scott McAfee ruled that Willis did not include “sufficient detail” in six charges that were related to Trump’s infamous phone call to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger where he demanded 11,780 more votes be found to overturn the state’s election results. Then, in September, McAfee threw out three more charges in Willis’ indictment related to filing false documents in federal court, concluding that the state did not have the authority to bring such charges. In total, Willis’ original indictment came down from 41 charges to 35—and Trump went from facing 13 felony counts to eight.
Last week, in a new court filing, Willis insisted that her original indictment did include “an abundance of context and factual allegations about the solicitations at issue, including when the requests were made, to whom the requests were made, and the manner in which the requests were made.” Willis is asking that six of the charges related to Trump and Raffensperger’s phone call be reinstated.
The district attorney has had quite a year. In January, misconduct allegations surfaced and led to a contentious hearing where Willis admitted to dating special prosecutor Nathan Wade after she hired him. Willis was able to stay on the case, but Wade ended up resigning. The entire saga sparked an onslaught of litigation by Trump’s defense attorney and other defendants charged in Willis’ indictment who want the district attorney dismissed from prosecuting the case.
While all of this plays out in court, a Georgia appeals court has paused Willis’ investigation.
BY SHIRIN ALI
OCT 22, 2024
Here’s What Was in the Evidence Document Trump Really Didn’t Want Unsealed
It includes some communications between Trump’s campaign and attorneys in the lead-up to Jan. 6.
Special counsel Jack Smith has had a busy few weeks, from making a trove of evidence in his Jan. 6 case public to defending the charges he’s pursuing against Donald Trump in a court filing submitted last week. Meanwhile, down in Georgia, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is also fighting to reinstate charges that a judge struck down in her massive election interference case.
Jack Smith Is Unsealing Even More Evidence
Last week, U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan released part two of special counsel Jack Smith’s opening brief, a massive document that laid out all of the evidence federal prosecutors intend to use to prosecute Trump. Now the appendix for that brief is available, and all told it’s nearly 1,900 pages long, broken into four sections. Though it is heavily redacted, it includes some communications between Trump’s campaign and attorneys in the lead-up to Jan. 6, alongside information that’s already publicly available, like Trump’s old tweets and excerpts from former Vice President Mike Pence’s book.
Trump’s defense attorneys tried to stop this appendix from becoming public, arguing that releasing it would amount to election interference. In the end, Chutkan sided with Smith, declaring that the public had a right to see this information. Here are the highlights of the special counsel’s latest court filing.
Volume I
The first part of Smith’s appendix, which clocks in at 723 pages, mostly covers testimony given to the House Jan. 6 committee, the investigative body established in the aftermath of the Jan. 6 insurrection. Almost all of the names of the individuals who spoke to lawmakers were redacted and plenty of pages were left completely blank, minus a big, capitalized heading that read “SEALED,” likely to respect Chutkan’s protective order that bans prosecutors and the defense from revealing names of potential witnesses.
Prosecutors did reveal that one interview the House Jan. 6 committee conducted was with a “White House employee” who was responding to photographs of himself and Trump taken shortly after the former president delivered his infamous speech at the Ellipse. The employee said he prepared a TV for Trump so that he could watch coverage of his speech, but had to tell the former president that “they cut it off because they’re rioting down at the Capitol.” The employee added that he handed Trump a TV remote and brought him a Diet Coke as he settled in to watch the footage of the riot.
Volume II
This section of Smith’s appendix consisted almost entirely of Trump’s old tweets, most of which were publicly available. The tweets demonstrate a consistent pattern of Trump falsely claiming the 2020 election was rigged and that he was the rightful winner, like when he posted ”I WON THE ELECTION!” on Nov. 16, 2020.
Smith also referenced Trump’s tweet about firing Christopher Krebs, former director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, after Krebs publicly called out Trump’s claims of voter fraud as “unsubstantiated or … technically incoherent.” About seven hours later, Trump tweeted that Krebs’ statement was “highly inaccurate” and that he was firing the director, effective immediately.
Volume III
The majority of this section is dedicated to the former vice president’s memoir, which was released in 2022. Prosecutors highlighted passages where Pence revealed how he tried and failed to get Trump to accept that he had lost the election to Joe Biden. “I tried to encourage him as a friend. I told him he had reinvented the Republican Party to be more courageous and more diverse, with more Latino, African American, and working-class voters than ever before,” Pence wrote.
Pence also concluded that “the words were true but seemed to be little consolation” to Trump. Prosecutors also emphasized passages where Pence described a meeting held about a week after Election Day with former Trump attorneys Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell that “quickly turned into a contentious back-and-forth,” Pence wrote. Referring to Justin Clark, a former Trump lawyer, Pence noted: “I will never forget the look on Justin’s face when Giuliani told the president over the speakerphone, ‘Your lawyers are not telling you the truth, Mr. President.’ ”
Another striking passage that prosecutors highlighted was when Pence referenced Trump’s tweet telling his followers about “Operation Pence Card,” which included an article that falsely claimed Pence had the power as president of the Senate to overrule states’ electoral vote certificates. “I showed it to Karen [Pence] and rolled my eyes, thinking, ‘Here we go.’ ”
Volume IV
The final section of Smith’s appendix includes a slew of internal communications between former Trump campaign officials and attorneys, including memos that detailed potential scenarios that could play out during the Senate’s electoral vote certification on Jan. 6. These are also heavily redacted, with the authors’ names and recipients of the memos hidden.
However, the memos still offer insight into how the Trump campaign was operating in the days and weeks following the 2020 election. One memo explained that Pence could announce that Arizona “has multiple slates of electors, and so is going to defer decision on that until finishing the other States. This would be the first break with the procedure set out in the [Electoral Count Act].”
Prosecutors included some images of notes taken by former Trump campaign officials and text message exchanges. There’s also an official letter written by Pence with the seal of the office of the vice president that was addressed to a “colleague” where he explained that he did not have the power to challenge the Jan. 6 electoral vote certification. “It is my considered judgment that my oath to support and defend the Constitution constrains me from claiming unilateral authority to determine which electoral votes should be counted and which should not,” Pence wrote.
A transcript of a Nov. 20, 2020, White House press briefing is also included, where Kayleigh McEnany, then White House press secretary, answered reporters’ questions and defended the Trump campaign’s various lawsuits against states that certified Biden’s victory. “There are very real claims out there that the campaign is pursuing—234 pages of affidavits publicly available in one county alone; that’s Wayne County,” McEnany said. She goes on to say that “This was a system that had never been tried in American history: mass mail-out voting. It’s one that we have identified as being particularly prone to fraud. So those claims deserve to be pursued.”
Smith Also Fights to Keep Trump’s Charges
When the special counsel filed a superseding indictment about two months ago, he did something controversial: Smith chose to keep the charge of obstruction of an official proceeding, despite the Supreme Court issuing a decision this year that narrowed the scope of Sarbanes-Oxley, the very law Smith is relying on for that charge. And last week, Smith defended his decision in a new court filing.
In Fischer v. United States, the Supreme Court ruled that a section of Sarbanes–Oxley, which makes it a crime to tamper with a record or otherwise impede an official proceeding, could not be used to charge scores of rioters who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6 because, the justices concluded, Sarbanes–Oxley only applies to interference with official documents. Trump’s defense attorneys argued this decision prevents Smith from charging Trump with obstruction, and that Fischer’s “logic fatally undermines” Smith’s remaining charges, and therefore his entire indictment should be dismissed.
Smith offered a different read on the situation by arguing that in its Fischer decision, the Supreme Court did not “strike down the statute or rewrite it,” but it did clarify that Sarbanes–Oxley “includes ‘creating false evidence.’ ” Smith insists that squarely applies to Trump and his efforts to create fraudulent electoral certificates across the swing states he lost to Biden, which were then intended to be introduced to Congress on Jan. 6, 2021.
The special counsel also hit back on Trump’s claims that he bears no responsibility for the insurrection, arguing that the former president “willfully caused his supporters to obstruct and attempt to obstruct the proceeding by summoning them to Washington, D.C., and then directing them to march to the Capitol to pressure the Vice President and legislators to reject the legitimate certificates and instead rely on the fraudulent electoral certificates.”
Fani Willis Wants Trump’s Charges Reinstated
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has asked a Georgia appeals court to reinstate six charges that were previously dismissed in her election interference case that indicted Trump and 18 others.
Back in March, Judge Scott McAfee ruled that Willis did not include “sufficient detail” in six charges that were related to Trump’s infamous phone call to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger where he demanded 11,780 more votes be found to overturn the state’s election results. Then, in September, McAfee threw out three more charges in Willis’ indictment related to filing false documents in federal court, concluding that the state did not have the authority to bring such charges. In total, Willis’ original indictment came down from 41 charges to 35—and Trump went from facing 13 felony counts to eight.
Last week, in a new court filing, Willis insisted that her original indictment did include “an abundance of context and factual allegations about the solicitations at issue, including when the requests were made, to whom the requests were made, and the manner in which the requests were made.” Willis is asking that six of the charges related to Trump and Raffensperger’s phone call be reinstated.
The district attorney has had quite a year. In January, misconduct allegations surfaced and led to a contentious hearing where Willis admitted to dating special prosecutor Nathan Wade after she hired him. Willis was able to stay on the case, but Wade ended up resigning. The entire saga sparked an onslaught of litigation by Trump’s defense attorney and other defendants charged in Willis’ indictment who want the district attorney dismissed from prosecuting the case.
While all of this plays out in court, a Georgia appeals court has paused Willis’ investigation.
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