Bombshell special counsel filing includes new allegations of Trump’s ‘increasingly desperate’ efforts to overturn election

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Bombshell special counsel filing includes new allegations of Trump’s ‘increasingly desperate’ efforts to overturn election

Special counsel Jack Smith has outlined new details of former President Donald Trump and his allies’ sweeping and “increasingly desperate” efforts to overturn his

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, in a blockbuster court filing Wednesday aimed at defending Smith’s prosecution of Trump following the Supreme Court’s July immunity ruling.

Trump intentionally lied to the public, state election officials, and his own vice president in an effort to cling to power after losing the election, while privately describing some of the claims of election ****** as “crazy,” prosecutors alleged in the 165-page filing.

“When the defendant lost the 2020 presidential election, he resorted to ******* to try to stay in office,” the filing said. “With private co-conspirators, the defendant launched a series of increasingly desperate plans to overturn the legitimate election results in seven states that he had lost.”

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When Trump’s effort to overturn the election through lawsuits and fraudulent electors ******* to change the outcome of the election, prosecutors allege that the former president fomented *********, with prosecutors describing Trump as directly responsible for “the tinderbox that he purposely ignited on January 6.”

“The defendant also knew that he had only one last hope to prevent Biden’s certification as President: the large and ****** crowd standing in front of him. So for more than an hour, the defendant delivered a speech designed to inflame his supporters and motivate them to march to the Capitol,” Smith wrote.

The lengthy filing — which includes an 80-page summary of the evidence gathered by investigators — outlines multiple instances in which Trump allegedly heard from advisers who disproved his allegations, yet continued to spread his claims of outcome-determinative voter ******, prosecutors said.

“It doesn’t matter if you won or lost the election. You still have to ****** like *****,” Trump allegedly told members of his family following the 2020 election, the filing said.

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PHOTO: In this July 31, 2024, file photo, *********** presidential candidate former President Donald Trump waits on stage to speak at a campaign rally, in Harrisburg, Pa. (Alex Brandon/AP, FILE)

According to prosecutors, Trump “***** the groundwork for his ******* well before” Election Day, including by sowing doubt among his supporters and planning to declare victory immediately, despite multiple advisers telling him that the results were unlikely to be finalized on Election Day.

Prosecutors allege that Trump and his allies “sought to create chaos” at polling places — including one instance when a campaign employee encouraged a colleague to “make them riot” at an ongoing vote count in Detroit — which the former president later used to support his claims of voter ******.

“The throughline of these efforts was deceit: the defendant’s and co-conspirators’ knowingly false claims of election ******,” the filing said.

In addition to outlining the instances when Trump was directly corrected about his allegations of voter ******, the filing said Trump privately called allegations of voter ****** made by his lawyer Sidney Powell as “crazy” — despite employing similar arguments to cast doubt on the legitimacy of the election, prosecutors allege.

Trump last year

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to federal charges of undertaking a “********* scheme” to overturn the results of the 2020 election in order to remain in power. Wednesday’s filing comes at a pivotal moment in the case, as U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan is set to begin considering whether any of the allegations included in the government’s case are protected by presidential immunity after the Supreme Court ruled in a

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that Trump is entitled to immunity from ********* prosecution for official acts undertaken while in office.

In August, Smith filed a pared-down indictment that removed allegations likely to have been considered official acts — including Trump’s interactions with Justice Department officials to interfere with the election — while still charging the former president with the same four ********* counts he originally faced. Last week, Smith filed a

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seeking to justify the superseding indictment, then sought to file a redacted version for public release.

Trump’s lawyers opposed Wednesday’s lengthy filing — which they described as “tantamount to a ********** and improper Special Counsel report” — and argued that public release of the allegations would improperly influence the election and violate Department of Justice policies. Judge Chutkan — who has long stated that the election does not play a factor in her decision making — ordered the filing be publicly released Wednesday.

In justifying his case against Trump, Smith alleged that Trump acted as an office-seeker rather than an officeholder when he committed *******, and that he “must stand trial for his private ******* as would any other citizen.”

“Although the defendant was the incumbent President during the charged conspiracies, his scheme was fundamentally a private one,” Wednesday’s filing said.

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