Trump Campaign 'Encouraged Rioting' After 2020 Election, DOJ Plans To Argue At Election Trial

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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 Trump’s 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, who’s leading the DOJ’s investigation, submitted a court filing Tuesday noting evidence prosecutors plan to use at the March 2024 trial that will help to “establish [Trump’s 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 Trump’s “common plan of falsely blaming fraud for election results he does not like.”
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[2naSalit]

1. Perhaps they will.

We can always hope!

[Walleye]

2. And I'm sure this will dominate the lead stories in the news for weeks