Seditious Trump is a criminal.

 

Donald Trump “resorted to crimes” in a failed bid to cling to power after losing the 2020 election, federal prosecutors said in a newly unsealed court filing that argues that the former president is not entitled to immunity from prosecution.

Prosecutors laid out details including an allegation that a White House staffer heard Trump tell family members that it did not matter if he won or lost the election, “you still have to fight like hell”.

The new filing cites previously unknown accounts offered by Trump’s closest aides to paint a portrait of an “increasingly desperate” president who, while losing his grip on the White House, “used deceit to target every stage of the electoral process”.

“So what?” the filing quotes Trump as telling an aide after being alerted that his vice-president, Mike Pence, was in potential danger after a crowd of violent supporters stormed the US Capitol on January 6.

• Here’s what the filing argues: “When the defendant lost the 2020 presidential election, he resorted to crimes to try to stay in office.”
• Here’s why the timing of Wednesday’s unsealing is important: The 165-page filing is probably the last opportunity for prosecutors to detail their case against Trump before the 5 November election given there will not be a trial beforehand.

-The Guardian

Harvard constitutional law professor Laurence Tribe described having not one but multiple “wow” moments when reading a newly unsealed court filing from special counsel Jack Smith’s office that offers evidence of Donald Trump’s alleged efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss.

“I said, ‘Wow,’ about 25 times in a quick reading of this document,” Tribe told CNN’s Erin Burnett on Wednesday.