There was enough evidence to convict Donald Trump if he had not become president, according to a report from special counsel Jack Smith, who prosecuted Trump’s 2020 election interference case.
Trump allegedly waged a pressure campaign in “swing states.” He contacted state leaders and urged them to “take action to ignore the vote count,” The Washington Post writes.
In early January 2021, days before Congress certified the election results, Trump called Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger on the phone and implored him to “find the 11,780 votes” — the gap that gave Biden victory.
When it became clear that Trump had lost in Arizona, they and their lawyer tried to convince then-Speaker of the Arizona House of Representatives Rusty Bowers to help them. That report says they “used false claims of fraud to try to persuade the Speaker to call the state legislature into session and replace legitimate Arizona voters with Mr. Trump’s illegitimate ones.”
At the same time, the second report on the case, where Trump apparently kept secret documents, has not yet been made public – the newly elected president’s lawyers filed such a request with the court, and it was granted.
Source: Racurs
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