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WASHINGTON — The judge overseeing the federal election interference case against former President Donald Trump has rejected his request to hold special counsel Jack Smith and his office in contempt.
Special Counsel Jack Smith "bent ordinary procedure" to kneecap former President Trump after he failed to try the candidate before the November election, a legal analyst argued in a piece for New York magazine.
WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump and his campaign have accused special counsel Jack Smith of violating long-standing Justice Department norms by including new revelations about his efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss in a filing released Wednesday.
Stephen Colbert delighted in a “surprise” 165-page filing from special counsel Jack Smith that argues how former President Donald Trump, in his attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 election, “resorted to crimes.”
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.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Special counsel Jack Smith has provided a road map for how prosecutors hope to prove their case charging former President Donald Trump with an illegal scheme to overturn his 2020 election loss — if it ever gets to trial.
A federal judge on Wednesday unsealed a redacted motion by special counsel Jack Smith detailing evidence against former President Donald Trump in his criminal election interference case in Washington, D.C. Smith's 165-page filing argued that the Republican presidential nominee can still be prosecuted for his efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss, despite a Supreme Court ruling in July that Trump has presumptive immunity for his official presidential acts. "When the defendant lost the 2020 presidential election, he resorted to crimes to try to stay in office," Smith wrote. "With private co-conspirators, the defendant launched a series of increasingly desperate plans to overturn the legitimate election results in seven states that
On the day of the Capitol riot, a staffer working for Donald Trump told the then-president that his vice president, Mike Pence, needed to be evacuated in order to keep him safe. Trump’s response was brief.
Former President Trump blasted the Justice Department Wednesday for having "disobeyed their own rule in favor of complete and total election interference" after a key filing from Special Counsel Jack Smith’s election case against him was unsealed with just weeks before Americans cast their ballots.