The complete report of the special prosecutor in charge of the investigation into donald trump (2017-2021) on the case of assault on the Capitol It was released this Wednesday by Justice and provides extensive evidence of “criminal” conduct which, it is concluded, the former US president incurred to try to reverse the results of the 2020 elections.
“Working with a team of private conspirators, the defendant acted as a candidate when he used multiple criminal means to disrupt, through fraud and deception, government function by which votes are collected and counted, a function in which the defendant, as president, had no official role.”
In the letter they also indicate that the former president and current Republican candidate not entitled to immunity procedural for his failed attempt to remain in power. The purpose of the Prosecutor’s brief is to convince US District Judge Tanya Chutkan that the crimes charged in the accusation They are private actsrather than officers, and therefore may remain part of the prosecution as the case progresses.
“Although the defendant was the sitting president during the charged conspiracies, his plan was fundamentally private,” the Prosecutor’s Office said. “When the accused lost the 2020 presidential election “he resorted to crimes to try to stay in office.”he insisted.
He “ignored” Pence
These crimes include attempting to persuade the former vice president Mike Pence so that he would refuse to certify the count of electoral votes on the afternoon of January 6, 2021. The report includes details of conversations between Trump and Pence, including a private lunch the two had on November 12, 2020, in which Pence “reiterated an option to save the appearances” of Trump. “Don’t give in, but recognize that the process is over“he told him. In another private lunch days later, Pence urged Trump to accept the election results and run again in 2024. “I don’t know, 2024 is too far away,” the former president responded.
So Trump “ignored” Pence “just as he ignored dozens of court decisions that unanimously rejected his legal claims and those of his allies. He also ignored the officials of the affected states, including those in his own party, who publicly declared that he had lost and that his specific accusations of fraud were false,” prosecutors have ruled.
He “constant flow of misinformation” of Trump in the weeks following the election culminated in his speech at the Ellipse on the morning of January 6, 2021, in which Trump “used these lies to inflame and motivate the large and angry crowd of his supporters to march to the Capitol and interrupt the certification procedure,” they added.
