"He has zero, nothing": Legal experts say Trump has "no factual defense" against Jack Smith filing

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

46% : "Tragically, when it comes to Trump, a huge swath of the electorate makes the opposite choice.
42% : Sample noted, however, that Trump might still find refuge at the Supreme Court, depending on how the court decides to interpret it own ruling on presidential immunity.
38% : "Cobb said that despite Trump being unable to mount a defense based on the evidence, he was sure the case would end up back at the Supreme Court.
37% : "Applying the Supreme Court ruling, the biggest question is whether Trump was acting as president when he sought to undo the election or was he acting as a candidate for the presidency.
34% : "In terms of new information presented in the filing, Gershman pointed toward details describing the team Trump assembled to overturn the election results.
34% : "That argument makes sense to me, but the Supreme Court may disagree."Looming over the entire case is the fact that the prosecution of Trump for his attempt to overturn election results will almost certainly be nixed if he wins the presidential election this year, though it's not clear whether the revelations from Wednesday's filing will have any impact on the presidential race.
32% : And legally, if Trump wins the election, he will ensure that no jury ever confronts Smith's mountain of evidence."
31% : Smith's much-anticipated filing on Wednesday provided the most complete picture of the case against Trump.
31% : For instance, Smith lays out former Trump advisor Steve Bannon's involvement, including that Trump allegedly spoke to Bannon on Jan. 5, just hours before Bannon predicted that "all hell is going to break loose" the next day.
31% : "I suppose the most relevant new facts in the filing are the multitude of non-governmental private individuals whom Trump by fraud and coercion tried to steam-roll to undo the results of the election," Gershman said.
30% : These are actual emails, actual texts, actual statements, from multiple witnesses, none of whom had incentive to turn on Trump.
29% : McQuade said that she sees the alleged activity of Trump as "clearly outside the scope of a president's official duty," adding that the legal "gray area" likely arises in Trump's communications with former Vice President Mike Pence.
28% : "The upshot of Smith's extensive report is that Trump clearly knew that he lost the because everybody around him told him he lost, but he nonetheless used every means he could think of to remain in power," Gershman said.
26% : "Ty Cobb, a former White House attorney under Trump, agreed that he wasn't surprised by the strength of the evidence presented and added that the filing confirmed "how powerful the evidentiary record will be of Trump's crimes and the fact that he has zero, nothing, there is no factual defense.
24% : "Note proof that Trump excluded White House counsel from critical meetings.
15% : Prosecutors further disclosed that Trump planned to "fight like hell" in the election regardless of the results, with a staffer telling prosecutors that he overheard Trump telling his daughter, Ivanka, and his son-in-law Jared Kuhner that "It doesn't matter if you won or lost the election.

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