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Special counsel report says Trump would've been convicted for Jan. 6 'unprecedented criminal effort' Jack Smith says in a new report that his team “stood up for the rule of law” as it investigated President-elect Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

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What an absolute condemnation of justice in this country. It is dead, together with the three branches of government, the constitution, and the forth estate. Shame on this country. #SpecialCounselReport

Mr. Trump did not reach out to any of these officials to ask relevant questions about the election because he was not seeking honest answers. This was a pattern revealed throughout the investigation: Mr. Trump unquestioningly accepted at face value and amplified election fraud claims that benefited his quest to retain power. Conversely, he avoided consulting informed sources, such as state election officials, who possessed evidence that could debunk his claims. The Office concluded that this consistent pattern would constitute powerful proof at trial that Mr. Trump knew the claims he was making were false. Page 37

For all his efforts, Trump did not take an overly strong interest in ascertaining any facts.

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At around the same time as he issued his 6:01 p.m. Tweet, Mr. Trump tried to reach two United States Senators, and he also directed Co-Conspirator 1 to call Members of Congress and attempt to enlist them to further delay the certification.132 When Mr. Trump’s White House Counsel called him at around 7:00 p.m. and asked him to withdraw any objections to the certification, Mr. Trump refused.133 Page 31

The violence appears to have failed, but Trump hasn't given up on his dirty scheme yet.

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Just before 2:24 p.m., the news channel playing on the television in the dining room where Mr. Trump was sitting aired an interview with an individual marching from the Ellipse to the Capitol, who expressed his anger at Mr. Pence and stated, “But I still believe President Trump has something else left.”124 Then, at 2:24 p.m., sitting alone, Mr. Trump issued a Tweet attacking Mr. Pence and fueling the riot: “Mike Pence didn’t have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our Country and our Constitution, giving States a chance to certify a corrected set offacts, not the fraudulent or inaccurate ones which they were asked to previously certify. USA demands the truth!”125 One minute later, the United States Secret Service was forced to evacuate Mr. Pence to a secure location at the Capitol.126 When an advisor at the White House learned this, he rushed to the dining room and informed Mr. Trump, who replied “So what?”127 Pages 29-30

“So what?", says Trump as his VP's life hangs in the balance thanks to him.

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After his speech, Mr. Trump returned to the White House and, at around 1:30 p.m., settled in the dining room off of the Oval Office.118 There, he watched television news coverage of events at the Capitol and reviewed Twitter on his phone.119 When the angry crowd advanced on the Capitol building and breached it at around 2:13 p.m., forcing the Senate to recess,120 several of Mr. Trump’s advisors rushed to the dining room and told him that a riot had started at the Capitol and that rioters were in the building.121 Over the course of the afternoon, they forcefully urged Mr. Trump to issue calming messages to his supporters.122 Mr. Trump resisted, repeatedly remarking that the people at the Capitol were angry because the election had been stolen.123 Page 29

Trump settles in for a nice afternoon of watching the goons he brainwashed and riled up attack the Capitol.

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During his speech at the Ellipse,99 Mr. Trump made one more attempt to retain power. In his remarks, Mr. Trump repeated many of the same lies he had been telling for months regarding dead voters, non-citizen voters, and vote dumps-and he told newer ones: lies that targeted states wanted to change their electors and that Mr. Pence had the authority, and might be persuaded, to change the election results.100 The lie regarding Mr. Pence was particularly deceptive because Mr. Trump knew what his supporters in the crowd did not: that Mr.Pence had just told him in no uncertain terms that he would not do what Mr. Trump was demanding. Page 24

Trump gives it one last go at the Ellipse with an additional lie about Pence's willingness and ability to steal the election for Trump.

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At around 1:00 a.m. on the morning ofJanuary 6, Mr. Trump tweeted: “If Vice President @Mike_Pence comes through for us, we will win the Presidency. Many States want to decertify the mistake they made in certifying incorrect & even fraudulent numbers in a process NOT approved by their State Legislatures (which it must be). Mike can send it back!”95 Just before he left the White House to give his speech at the Ellipse, Mr. Trump phoned Mr. Pence one last time;96 when Mr. Pence told Mr. Trump that he planned to issue a public statement making clear that he lacked the authority to do what Mr. Trump wanted, Mr. Trump expressed anger at him.97 He then directed staffers to re-insert into his planned Ellipse speech some language that he had drafted earlier targeting Mr. Pence.98 Page 23

Trump reinserts some threats against Pence back into his Ellipse speech for good measure.

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That night, Mr. Trump used a speech in Dalton, Georgia, to focus the crowd on the idea that Mr. Pence could change the results of the election, saying, “I hope Mike Pence comes through for us, I have to tell you. I hope that our great Vice President, our great Vice President comes through for us . . . . Of course, if he doesn’t come through, I won’t like him quite as much."91 The next day, on January 5, when Mr. Trump again failed to make headway with Mr. Pence in a private conversation, Mr. Trump warned that he would have to publicly criticize Mr. Pence.92 Mr. Trump then (in response to a New York Times report on the conversation between Mr. Trump and Mr. Pence) issued a false statement claiming, “The Vice President and I are in total agreement that the Vice President has the power to act.”93 Page 22

Trump won’t like Pence too much if he doesn’t help Trump do a coup. He sure hopes that doesn’t happen.

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On January 4, two days before the certification proceeding, Mr. Trump arranged for Mr. Pence to meet with Co-Conspirator 2 in the Oval Office[].86 During the meeting, Co-Conspirator 2 outlined two ways that he claimed Mr. Pence could affect the election outcome using his role in the certification: he could reject the legitimate electors outright -denying Mr. Biden an electoral majority and likely sending the selection of the President to the House of Representatives, where fellow Republicans controlled the majority of state delegations – or he could send the elector slates to targeted states’ legislatures for them to choose which electoral votes should be counted - affording Republican-controlled legislatures the opportunity to reject Mr. Biden’s electors and replace them with Mr. Trump’s.87 In response to Mr. Pence’s questioning, Co-Conspirator 2 admitted that both proposals violated the ECA and were untested.88 When Mr. Pence turned to Mr. Trump and pointed out that even "[Mr. Trump’s] lawyer," Co-Conspirator 2, did not think Mr. Pence had the authority to return electoral votes to the states, Mr. Trump responded that he “like[d] the other thing better," which Mr. Pence understood to mean Mr. Pence simply rejecting the electoral votes outright.89 In the end, Mr. Pence again stated that he did not believe he could do what he was being asked.90 Pages 21-22

Trump gets Co-Conspirator 2 to explain to Pence how the cheating would work.

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In repeated conversations, day after day, Mr. Trump pressed Mr. Pence to use his ministerial position as President of the Senate to change the election outcome, often by citing false claims of election fraud as justification; he even falsely told Mr. Pence that the “Justice Department [was] finding major infractions.” When Mr. Pence repeatedly refused to act as Mr. Trump wanted,83 Mr. Trump told him that "hundreds of thousands” of people would “hate his guts” and think he was “stupid,” and that Mr. Pence was “too honest.”84 Surrounding these communications, Mr. Trump frequently took to Twitter to exhort supporters to travel to Washington for January 6, such as when he tweeted on January 1 , “The BIG Protest Rally in Washington, D.C., will take place at 11.00 A.M. on January 6th. Locational details to follow. StopTheSteal!”85 Pages 20-21

Trump relentlessly impresses on Pence that people will hate his guts if he doesn’t steal the election for Trump.

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This deception was crucial to the conspiracy, as many who participated as fraudulent electors would not have done so had they known the true extent ofthe co-conspirators’ plans.49 Not all of Mr. Trump’s elector nominees were persuaded, forcing the co-conspirators to recruit substitutes in some of the targeted states.50 For example, one Trump elector nominee in Pennsylvania recognized the plan as “illegal” and an attempt “to overthrow the Government,” and he declined to participate.51 Page 14

Not all of the recruited fake electors were entirely convinced that the shady scheme was above-board.

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The fraudulent elector plan’s arc is reflected in a series of memoranda drafted in late November and early December by Co-Conspirator 5, who initially portrayed it as a contingency to preserve the possibility that Mr. Trump’s electors’ votes would be counted on January 6 if he prevailed in ongoing election litigation.40 But as described below, the plan quickly transformed into a corrupt strategy to obstruct the certification proceeding and overturn the valid election results.41 Mr. Trump set the fraudulent elector plan into motion in early December, ensured that it was carried out by co-conspirators and Campaign agents in the targeted states, and monitored its progress. On December 6, for instance, Mr. Trump and Co-Conspirator 2 called the Chairwoman of the Republican National Committee and told her that it was important for the RNC to help organize Mr. Trump’s elector nominees in the targeted states.42 Page 12

A corrupt strategy to obstruct the certification proceeding and overturn the valid election results.

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B. Mr. Trump’s Fraudulent Elector Plan As December 14 – the date the ECA required each state’s electors to vote and send their certificates of vote to Congress – approached, Mr. Trump and co-conspirators launched another plan. Under this plan, they would organize the people who would have served as Mr. Trump’s electors, had he won the popular vote, in seven states that Mr. Trump had lost-Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin-and cause them to sign and send to Washington false certifications claiming to be the legitimate electors.39 [] Mr. Trump and co-conspirators used the fraudulent certificates to try to obstruct the congressional certification proceeding. Pages 11-12

Nice fraudulent-elector plan you got there.

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Significantly, he made election claims only to state legislators and executives who shared his political affiliation and were his political supporters, and only in states that he had lost.23 Page 8

Trump underscored his guilty mind by only plying his lies to confederates in states he lost.

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Special Counsel Report on Trump Election Case The former special counsel Jack Smith stood behind his prosecution of President-elect Donald J. Trump in a report released early Tuesday.

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The Office investigated whether Mr. Trump believed the claims he made. Evidence from a variety of sources established that Mr. Trump knew that there was no outcome-determinative fraud in the 2020 election, that many of the specific claims he made were untrue, and that he had lost the election. He knew this because some of the highest-ranking officials in his own Administration, including the Vice President, told him directly that there was no evidence to support his claims.9 Mr. Trump’s private advisors, both within and outside of his Campaign, told him the same.10 On November 13, his own Campaign conceded its litigation in Arizona, a state pivotal to his reelection prospects.11 State officials and legislators whom Mr. Trump pressured to change vote tallies or stop certifications of results rebuffed him and informed him that his fraud claims were wrong, both privately and through public statements.12 Pages 4-5

Trump knew he was lying. Duh.

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[W]hen it became clear that Mr. Trump had lost the election and that lawful means of challenging the election results had failed, he resorted to a series of criminal efforts to retain power. This included attempts to induce state officials to ignore true vote counts; to manufacture fraudulent slates of presidential electors in seven states that he had lost; to force Justice Department officials and his own Vice President, Michael R. Pence, to act in contravention of their oaths and to instead advance Mr. Trump’s personal interests; and, on January 6 , 2021 , to direct an angry mob to the United States Capitol to obstruct the congressional certification of the presidential election and then leverage rioters’ violence to further delay it.4 Page 2

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Special Counsel Report on Trump Election Case The former special counsel Jack Smith stood behind his prosecution of President-elect Donald J. Trump in a report released early Tuesday.

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Link to the Jack Smith Special Counsel Report on the government site, which is full page and easier to download than embedded versions (also be wary of doctored versions that might be floating around).
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Special Counsel Report Says Trump Would Have Been Convicted in Election Case The report, which said the special counsel’s office stood “fully behind” the merits of the prosecution, amounted to an extraordinary rebuke of the president-elect.

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Many newsmedia have embedded the Jack Smith Special Counsel report on their sites but they're not easy to read in that format.
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Special Counsel Report Says Trump Would Have Been Convicted in Election Case (Gift Article) The report, which said the special counsel’s office stood “fully behind” the merits of the prosecution, amounted to an extraordinary rebuke of the president-elect.

If it weren't for lies and bought judges, he'd be behind bars.
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