In a banger of a filing notifying the court of evidence he intends to introduce at disgraced former President Trump’s upcoming trial on charges stemming from his post-2020 election coup attempt, Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith says he has text messages indicating that the fat bastard and his minions tried to start a riot outside the TCF Center in Detroit – where the ballots were still being counted in the majority-Black city – on November 4th, 2020, writing:
“The indictment lists multiple examples of the defendant’s efforts, during the charged conspiracies, to pressure state officials to change election results or appoint invalid electors in spite of the election results. The Government also plans to introduce evidence of an effort undertaken by an agent (and unindicted co-conspirator) of the defendant who worked for his campaign (‘the Campaign Employee’) to, immediately following the election, obstruct the vote count. On November 4, 2020, the Campaign Employee exchanged a series of text messages with an attorney supporting the Campaign’s election day operations at the TCF Center in Detroit, where votes were being counted; in the messages, the Campaign Employee encouraged rioting and other methods of obstruction when he learned that the vote count was trending in favor of the defendant’s opponent.”
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“The Government will also show that around the time of these messages, an election official at the TCF Center observed that as Biden began to take the lead, a large number of untrained individuals flooded the TCF Center and began making illegitimate and aggressive challenges to the vote count. Thereafter, Trump made repeated false claims regarding election activities at the TCF Center, when in truth his agent was seeking to cause a riot to disrupt the count. This evidence is admissible to demonstrate that the defendant, his co-conspirators, and agents had knowledge the defendant had lost the election, as well as their intent and motive to obstruct and overturn the legitimate results”