Turns out Jack Smith has cell tower data that could finish off Donald Trump
In the real world, convictions in criminal trials don’t come down to the courtroom doors flinging open with a surprise witness at the last minute. Instead criminal trials come down to whether the evidence in the case is enough to prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. And that in turn can come down to some very precise specifics.
For instance, if you’re trying to convict someone on bank robbery, it goes a long way if you have physical proof that they were in the bank during the robbery. Otherwise they can make a reasonable doubt argument that perhaps they were elsewhere, and someone else robbed the bank.
This brings us to Jack Smith’s classified documents case against Donald Trump. Trump will try to argue that he didn’t know he had the documents, or that he didn’t know he wasn’t allowed to have them. The jury doesn’t have to believe that such scenarios are true, only that they’re reasonably possible. That’s why it’s so important that Smith has nailed Trump and some of his Mar-a-Lago employees for conspiring to move and hide the documents after the government informed Trump that he was legally required to return them.
To that end, it turns out Jack Smith has cell tower evidence that tracks the precise movements of two of Trump’s co-conspirators as they were attempting to destroy surveillance footage. This puts them in the room while the footage was being sabotaged. It makes it impossible for them to make a reasonable doubt argument that they were at the beach that day, and that someone else must have been in there sabotaging the surveillance footage.
This cell tower data helps nail Trump’s co-conspirators, and in turn helps nail Trump himself. It’s the kind of evidence that may force Trump’s co-conspirators to consider flipping on him after all.
