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Trump Campaign 'Encouraged Rioting' After 2020 Election, DOJ Plans To Argue At Election Trial
I wish Fox news folks who pushed these election lies would have to show their faces in court !!!
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Trump Campaign Encouraged Rioting After 2020 Election, DOJ Plans To Argue At Election Trial
https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2023/12/05/trump-campaign-encouraged-rioting-after-2020-election-doj-plans-to-argue-at-election-trial/?sh=25ac9a265864
Alison Durkee Forbes Staff
Dec 5, 2023,03:32pm EST
Justice Department prosecutors will introduce evidence at former President Donald Trumps upcoming trial over the 2020 election alleging his campaign encouraged rioting to stop the vote count in Michigan, prosecutors said in a filing Tuesday, as the DOJ outlined some of the evidence it plans to use to prove Trump illegally tried to overturn his election loss.
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Special Counsel Jack Smith, whos leading the DOJs investigation, submitted a court filing Tuesday noting evidence prosecutors plan to use at the March 2024 trial that will help to establish [Trumps motive, intent, preparation, knowledge, absence of mistake, and common plan.
While the indictment already alleges Trump and his allies unlawfully pressured state officials to change the election results, prosecutors also plan to introduce text messages between a Trump campaign staffer and a campaign attorney who was at a vote counting site in Detroit, in which the campaign employee allegedly encouraged rioting and other methods of obstruction when he learned that the vote count was trending in favor of [President Joe Biden]
Prosecutors will also show evidence that around the time of those text messages, as Biden began to take the lead, a large number of untrained individuals flooded the [vote counting center] and began making illegitimate and aggressive challenges to the vote count.
While Trump then used those challenges to the vote count to make repeated false claims regarding election activities in Detroit, prosecutors allege that in truth his agent was seeking to cause a riot to disrupt the count.
Prosecutors also plan to introduce evidence from the years before and after the 2020 election, such as statements that Trump made claiming election fraud after previous elections in 2012 and 2016, which prosecutors argue demonstrates Trumps common plan of falsely blaming fraud for election results he does not like.
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Trump Campaign 'Encouraged Rioting' After 2020 Election, DOJ Plans To Argue At Election Trial (Original Post)
riversedge
Dec 2023
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2naSalit
(87,736 posts)1. Perhaps they will.
We can always hope!
Walleye
(31,455 posts)2. And I'm sure this will dominate the lead stories in the news for weeks