Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith’s DC case against disgraced former President Trump over his failed post-2020 election coup attempt may not specifically charge the bastard with inciting the deadly January 6th, 20201 attack on the Capitol by a horde of his most violent and deranged fanboys, but Politico notes that Smith’s team are putting the assault front and center in recent filings that his refusal to do anything to stop the mayhem was an act of furtherance for his conspiracy.
“The defendant here is charged with four related criminal counts, including conspiring to obstruct and obstructing the official certification proceeding on January 6. Essential to those charges are factual allegations and evidence that the proceeding was in fact impeded – namely, by a large crowd, including individuals whom the defendant had directed at the Capitol, that violently advanced on the Capitol building to create ‘a catastrophic security risk,'” wrote Smith lieutenant Molly Gaston in a filing this week. It’s not clear yet how much of Smith’s case will center on the riot, however Gaston wrote that it will be supported by “video, photographic, and geolocation” evidence as well as testimony from a number of insurrectionists who previously told courts and the January 6th Select Committee they sacked the Temple of Democracy at Trump’s behest.