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Now that special counsel Jack Smith has laid out some of the evidence he intends to use at trial to convince jurors that Donald Trump conspired to subvert the 2020 election, it soon goes next to a federal judge to decide which of Trump’s acts were “official” — and therefore not prosecutable under the Supreme Court’s recent decision regarding when presidents can be granted immunity.
RIPON, Wis. ― Vice President Kamala Harris’ appearance with former Rep. Liz Cheney at Ripon College was focused heavily on the threat former President Donald Trump poses to democracy, one of the Republicans’ biggest weaknesses in the 2024 presidential election.
A Republican lawmaker claimed Thursday that Mike Pence’s life “wasn’t really in peril” on Jan. 6, 2021, when a mob of angry Donald Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol and chanted about hanging Trump’s vice president.
After attorneys for Donald Trump lashed out in a court filing Tuesday claiming that special counsel Jack Smith is attempting to “usurp control” of the defense, and demanding more redactions in Smith’s brief laying out evidence in the former president’s election subversion case linked to the January 2021 insurrection, prosecutors offered a series of hints about what’s to come.
WASHINGTON — Donald Trump’s coup attempt that ended with the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol may be on the cusp of making new headlines, just weeks ahead of the November election.
In a filinglate Thursday night, lawyers for former President Donald Trump breathed new life into the election subversion case linked to the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection, arguing that Trump’s alleged pressure campaign on former Vice President Mike Pence would qualify as official conduct and is protected by “absolute” immunity. They also alleged that special counsel Jack Smith has improperly withheld exculpatory evidence ahead of trial.
New footage of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol and its aftermath follows then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) as she’s evacuated from the building and grappling with how to respond.
A man who prosecutors say was the first to breach the Capitol building during the Jan. 6, 2021, riot was sentenced on Tuesday to more than four years in prison.