Judge Tanya Chutkan released a redacted version of DOJ Special Counsel Jack Smith's extended 165-page filing on Wednesday, revealing the shocking details of how Donald Trump "resorted to crimes to stay in office after the 2020 election."
Trump was “fundamentally” acting as a private candidate for office and not as president of the United States when he sought to overturn his 2020 election loss, Smith's team concluded in the filing exposing the scheme at the heart of Trump’s federal election interference case.
The fallout was immediate, with legal experts breaking down the document and highlighting Trump's criminality and desperate attempts to remain in power during the final months of his lone term.
Trump's lack of interest in the consequences on January 6th is also made plain in the document. Aside from replying "So what?" to reports that Vice President Mike Pence was in danger, Trump watched TV and kept scrolling on Twitter as officers were being brutally assaulted at the Capitol by the MAGA mob.
Smith's team says a future trial would feature testimony from the FBI forensic expert. In the meantime, Twitter sleuths were quick to figure out almost all of the redacted names from the document.
We also learned that Jack Smith has Trump's phone and all of its data. "The phone’s activity logs show that the defendant was using his phone, and in particular, using the Twitter application, consistently throughout the day after he returned from the Ellipse speech," Smith's team wrote
Smith's team argues that Trump "must stand trial for his private crimes as would any other citizen."