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Special Counsel Jack Smith found that Donald Trump’s team took his own MAGA faithful for easily manipulated fools when he and several co-conspirators carried out an “unprecedented criminal effort” to overturn the 2020 election.
Smith detailed his conclusion in a report released Tuesday, which explains his decision to indict Trump on four counts for plotting to obstruct the certification of the presidential race he lost to Joe Biden.
Smith wrote that Trump’s team “deceived” a group of MAGA hardliners whom they recruited to serve as fraudulent electors in states that Biden won.
Most of those eager Trump backers were told, Smith wrote, that they were signing up to act as fail-safe electors in the case that litigation by Trump’s team was successful.
Instead, Trump and his allies pressured then-Vice President Mike Pence to certify a list of fraudulent electors—which he refused to do.
“The co-conspirators deceived Mr. Trump’s elector nominees in the targeted states by falsely claiming that their electoral votes would be used only if ongoing litigation were resolved in Mr. Trump’s favor,” Smith’s report reads.
Andrew Hitt, one of the fake electors recruited in Wisconsin, told CBS News last year that Trump’s team had lied to him.
“If I knew what I knew now, I wouldn’t have done it,” he said. “It was kept from us that there was this alternate scheme, alternate motive.”
Smith also wrote that one member of Trump’s team, on a call with Trump and then-Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel, “told a lie that the co-conspirators would use to induce the cooperation of many of the fraudulent electors: that Mr. Trump’s electors’ votes would be used only if ongoing litigation in their state proved successful for Mr. Trump.”
The special prosecutor made clear his view that the ultimate responsibility for the fake electors plot rests with Trump, who set the plan “in motion” and “ensured that it was carried out by co-conspirators and Campaign agents in the targeted states, and monitored its progress.”
He also determined that Trump never believed—despite his public and private lies to the contrary—that he had won the 2020 election, and cynically chose to “leverage” the violence that broke out during the Jan. 6 insurrection because it was “beneficial to his plan to interfere with the certification.”
“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,” Smith wrote, citing multiple sources.
Smith concluded that the evidence his office collected would have been sufficient to obtain a conviction of Trump at trial, but his election to a second term in the White House rendered it a moot issue.
Whether through his lying to his supporters or to the American public, Smith emphasized that dishonesty was the one consistent hallmark of Trump’s actions during the fake electors plot and the Capitol riot.
“The throughline of all of Mr. Trump’s criminal efforts was deceit— knowingly false claims of election fraud—and the evidence shows that Mr. Trump used these lies as a weapon to defeat a federal government function foundational to the United States’ democratic process,” he wrote.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/lying-trump-took-own-supporters-105459164.html
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Smith detailed his conclusion in a report released Tuesday, which explains his decision to indict Trump on four counts for plotting to obstruct the certification of the presidential race he lost to Joe Biden.
Smith wrote that Trump’s team “deceived” a group of MAGA hardliners whom they recruited to serve as fraudulent electors in states that Biden won.
Most of those eager Trump backers were told, Smith wrote, that they were signing up to act as fail-safe electors in the case that litigation by Trump’s team was successful.
Instead, Trump and his allies pressured then-Vice President Mike Pence to certify a list of fraudulent electors—which he refused to do.
“The co-conspirators deceived Mr. Trump’s elector nominees in the targeted states by falsely claiming that their electoral votes would be used only if ongoing litigation were resolved in Mr. Trump’s favor,” Smith’s report reads.
Andrew Hitt, one of the fake electors recruited in Wisconsin, told CBS News last year that Trump’s team had lied to him.
“If I knew what I knew now, I wouldn’t have done it,” he said. “It was kept from us that there was this alternate scheme, alternate motive.”
Smith also wrote that one member of Trump’s team, on a call with Trump and then-Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel, “told a lie that the co-conspirators would use to induce the cooperation of many of the fraudulent electors: that Mr. Trump’s electors’ votes would be used only if ongoing litigation in their state proved successful for Mr. Trump.”
The special prosecutor made clear his view that the ultimate responsibility for the fake electors plot rests with Trump, who set the plan “in motion” and “ensured that it was carried out by co-conspirators and Campaign agents in the targeted states, and monitored its progress.”
He also determined that Trump never believed—despite his public and private lies to the contrary—that he had won the 2020 election, and cynically chose to “leverage” the violence that broke out during the Jan. 6 insurrection because it was “beneficial to his plan to interfere with the certification.”
“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,” Smith wrote, citing multiple sources.
Smith concluded that the evidence his office collected would have been sufficient to obtain a conviction of Trump at trial, but his election to a second term in the White House rendered it a moot issue.
Whether through his lying to his supporters or to the American public, Smith emphasized that dishonesty was the one consistent hallmark of Trump’s actions during the fake electors plot and the Capitol riot.
“The throughline of all of Mr. Trump’s criminal efforts was deceit— knowingly false claims of election fraud—and the evidence shows that Mr. Trump used these lies as a weapon to defeat a federal government function foundational to the United States’ democratic process,” he wrote.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/lying-trump-took-own-supporters-105459164.html
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