Donald Trump “used deception to target every step of the electoral process.” Special prosecutor Jack Smith puts it in black and white in the context of the legal battle in which the former president is accused of trying to overturn the result of the 2020 election. The former US president 'resorted to crimes' to try to stay. in power after losing the 2020 election, the documents read, specifying that the tycoon and others with him “launched a series of desperate plans to overturn the legitimate election results.”
“Trump acted as a candidate, not as a president”
According to Axios, Smith's relationship was declassified on Wednesday. Through this work, the special prosecutor is also attempting to address the Supreme Court's ruling earlier this year that U.S. presidents enjoy immunity for official acts. “Essentially, the defendant's plan was private in nature; widely used private actors and its campaign infrastructure to attempt to overturn election results and acted in a private capacity as a candidate for public office. Smith wrote. Not only that, Smith also accused Trump of knowing that “his allegations of fraud were false because he continued to support them even after his closest advisers, who were acting not in an official capacity but in a private or related capacity in the countryside, they told him. They said it wasn't true. And finally, for lawyer Smith, “when all the former president's attempts to cling to power had failed”, he “led a mob of angry supporters to the US Capitol to thwart the certification of Congress “.
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