11 damning details in Jack Smith's new brief in the Trump election case

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

77% : When Trump was told by an aide of Pence's evacuation, prosecutors say Trump responded: "So what?"Trump's first call for calm -- which advisers viewed as insufficient -- came 14 minutes later: "Please support our Capitol Police and Law Enforcement.
55% : They say it will show which news and social media apps he had on his phone and will reveal that Trump was on Twitter for much of the day.
53% : Prosecutors also plan to show at trial what Fox News was broadcasting at specific times during the day, since Trump had it on in the dining room and was watching coverage of the riot.
46% : For example, Trump and allies alleged that 36,000 noncitizens had cast ballots in Arizona, changing the figure to "a few hundred thousand" five days later, eventually revising it back to "bare minimum ... 40 or 50,000," then to 32,000 and back up to the original number of 36,000.
41% : Prosecutors, who had more access to telephone records and emails than the congressional committee that investigated Jan. 6, allege that Trump spoke to ally Steve Bannon by phone on Jan. 5 less than two hours before Bannon issued a prescient and provocative prediction on his War Room podcast that "all hell is going to break loose" on Jan. 6.Prosecutors plan to have an FBI computer forensic examiner testify about Trump's phone use on Jan. 6.
41% : Bannon said he told Trump that without Giuliani in charge, "this thing is over."
37% : "Trump sidelined his campaign lawyers on Nov. 13, 2020, with Bannon informing another Trump campaign adviser -- and alleged co-conspirator -- that Trump had replaced them in the pecking order with Rudy Giuliani.
36% : According to Smith's prosecutors, Trump was alone in the White House dining room when he sent that tweet.
32% : In a 165-page legal brief unsealed by a federal judge (albeit with some redactions), the special counsel fleshed out detailed evidence he would use against Trump at trial, if the case ever makes it that far.
31% : Smith also presented his arguments for why Trump is not immune from the charges, despite the Supreme Court's ruling over the summer that granted presidents broad immunity for official acts.
31% : According to prosecutors, at one point during Trump's bid to overturn the results, a Trump White House aide overheard Trump tell his daughter Ivanka and son-in-law Jared Kushner: "It doesn't matter if you won or lost the election.
30% : But Trump never provided it.
30% : "Trump is in to the end," Bannon added, according to prosecutors.
24% : "Though it's not referenced in Smith's new filing or his indictment, Trump later considered naming Powell as a special counsel to investigate election fraud, and he considered a proposal she crafted to seize voting machines from swing states for a forensic inspection.
21% : Prosecutors said they would prove at trial that Trump and his allies often made up statistics about voter fraud "from whole cloth."
19% : One week after Election Day in 2020, Trump told then-Gov. Doug Ducey (R-Ariz.) that he was "packaging up" fraud evidence to share with him, prosecutors wrote.
19% : Ducey told Trump that Arizona was all but lost, comparing it to being in "the ninth inning, two outs, and [the defendant] was several runs down," Smith's brief recounted.
16% : On the Nov. 20, 2020 call, Trump muted his line and mocked her to two aides, calling her claims about the election "crazy" and making a reference to Star Trek, prosecutors contend.
10% : Special counsel Jack Smith won't get a chance to bring his best criminal case against Donald Trump to trial before the 2024 election -- and if Trump wins, Smith probably will never get that chance.
9% : After a Fox News host called out Trump-aligned lawyer Sidney Powell for making bizarre claims about Dominion Voting machines, Trump called her on speakerphone.
1% : At 2:24 p.m. on Jan. 6, as Trump supporters were attacking the Capitol, Trump took to Twitter to condemn Vice President Mike Pence, saying Pence lacked "courage" because Pence had resisted Trump's pressure to intervene in the Electoral College certification.

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