Special counsel Jack Smith made remarks on Tuesday following the indictment of former President Donald Trump. Trump was charged in connection with his efforts to reverse the 2020 election results.
Former US Vice President and 2024 Presidential hopeful Mike Pence greets patrons during lunch during a campaign event at a Pizza Ranch Restaurant in Waukee, Iowa, on June 8, 2023.Then-Vice President Mike Pence took "contemporaneous notes" of meetings with Trump as the then-president plotted to remain in power in early 2021, and special counsel Jack Smith has those records, the indictment against Trump reveals.
"The Vice President then told the Defendant, 'Did you hear that? Even your own counsel is not saying I have that authority,' " the indictment says. "The Defendant responded, 'That's okay, I prefer the other suggestion' of the Vice President rejecting the electors unilaterally."Special counsel Jack smith says Jan.
He also praised the law enforcement officers who defended the Capitol from the violent pro-Trump mob that stormed the building on Jan. 6.The special counsel spoke for less than three minutes. He took no questions.RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel was in touch with Trump as he tried to overturn elections They "told the Chairwoman that it was important for the RNC to help the Defendant's campaign gather electors in targeted states, and falsely represented to her that such electors' votes would be used only if ongoing litigation in one of the states changed the results in the Defendant's favor," according to the special counsel
DeSantis, Trump's rival for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, said he would "end the weaponization of government" and replace the director of the FBI if he becomes commander in chief. Co-Conspirator 1 is described in that charging document as "an attorney who was willing to spread knowingly false claims and pursue strategies that the Defendant's 2020 re-election campaign attorneys would not."
Co-Conspirator 5: "An attorney who assisted in devising and attempting to implement a plan to submit fraudulent slates of presidential electors to obstruct the certification proceeding."
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