A federal judge in Washington made public portions of a sprawling legal brief in which prosecutors provided the fullest picture yet of what they found in their investigation of Donald Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 election.
In the brief, the special counsel, Jack Smith, depicted scenes in which Trump minimized concerns for the safety of then-Vice President Mike Pence during the Jan. 6 riots — “So what?” Trump said, according to the filing — and dismissed attempts to convince him that he lost the election.
Smith argued that Trump is not immune from prosecution because his actions at the center of the criminal charges were the unofficial acts of a desperate losing candidate, rather than the official acts of a president. Read the newly unsealed evidence here.
We took a look at the decisions now facing the judge presiding over the case.
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