Turns out Jack Smith’s strategy is a lot broader than we knew
When Jack Smith criminally indicted Donald Trump for his role in the 2020 fake elector scheme to overthrow the government, what was notable was what was missing. What about Trump’s incitement of the violent attack on the Capitol on January 6th? What about Trump’s antics in elections prior to 2020? Now we’re starting to get that answer.
New court filings show that Jack Smith plans to use Donald Trump’s conspiracy theories about the 2012 and 2016 election at trial, in order to help prove that Trump has long made such claims for strategic reasons rather than any honest belief that the election results were faulty.
In other words, it turns out Jack Smith’s trial strategy against Donald Trump is a lot broader than we knew. Smith is establishing that Trump’s behavior in 2020 was the culmination of his long running criminal antics. It’s going to help wipe out Trump’s ability to pursue a reasonable doubt defense that he honestly thought he’d won the 2020 election. It’s how you get convictions at trial. And it’s why Trump is going to prison.
