The Biden administration’s Department of Justice reportedly plans to make former President Donald Trump look even more guilty in his January 6 case.
According to Special Counsel Jack Smith, the team has outlined the evidence it has collected against Trump that could prove his motive and knowledge of a plan to block the transfer of power during the Capitol riot on January 6, 2021.
The nine-page document reveals that the prosecution intends to present a wide range of comments made by the former president as early as 2012, when he attempted to question the validity of elections whose results he disagreed with.
This covers the numerous times that Trump said he would not accept the outcomes of the elections in 2016 or 2020. The evidence acquired regarding other Trump allies, such as inciting riots at a Detroit vote-counting facility and pursuing a Republican National Committee lawyer who refuted Trump’s allegations of fraud, will also be presented by prosecutors.
“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,” the filing said of a campaign employee who sought to mobilize riots at the TCF Center after President Joe Biden took the lead in vote counts.
“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,” it continued.
The filing also delves into the 45th president’s more recent actions, arguing he has consistently made remarks that encourage violence, everything ranging from telling the Proud Boys to “stand back and stand by” to making disparaging comments about individuals he knows will be threatened and harassed by his supporters.
Such evidence is needed to “establish the defendant and his co-conspirators’ plan of silencing and intent to silence those who spoke out against the defendant’s false election fraud”claims”—comments that “could foreseeably lead to threats, harassment, and violence; and the defendant’s repeated choice to attack individuals with full knowledge of this effect.”
Lastly, the filing points to Trump’s “steadfast support and endorsement of rioters” who stormed the Capitol after his speech on Jan. 6.
