5 key takeaways from special counsel's bombshell filing on Trump's alleged bid to overturn 2020 election

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : Mike Pence remains at the center of the caseSmith indicates in the filing that he's prepared to use former Vice President Mike Pence's handwritten notes of his meetings with Trump, as well as Pence's sworn testimony and his account of events later memorialized in his book, to highlight how Trump pressured his second-in-command to subvert the election over the advice of Trump's closest advisers.
44% : "The filing offers a striking description of the violence that descended on the U.S. Capitol, which prosecutors described as the "the tinderbox that [Trump] purposely ignited on January 6" -- saying that rioters took direct cues from Trump such as reading his social media posts over a bullhorn in order to disrupt the certification proceedings.
42% : One of Trump's aides -- identified by ABC News as Nick Luna -- at one point rushed into the room where Trump was seated to inform him that Pence was safely rushed to a secure location during the riot.
41% : On another occasion, Pence told Trump, "Don't concede but recognize [the] process is over," per the filing.
39% : "You took a dying political party and gave it a new lease on life," Pence told Trump on the day Joe Biden was projected to win the election, the filing says.
38% : "I don't know, 2024 is so far off," Trump said in mid-November after Pence encouraged him to accept the results and begin thinking about the 2024 election, the filing says.
36% : MORE: Supreme Court gives Trump some immunity in Jan. 6 case, but not for 'unofficial acts'
34% : As the violent mob stormed the building and Pence was evacuated to a secure location, prosecutors allege that Trump idly watched the scene play out on television and scrolled Twitter.
24% : Trump's remark followed a November 2020 press conference when Powell and Rudy Giuliani -- lawyers leading Trump's election lawsuits -- spread baseless conspiracy theories to prove Trump won the election "by a landslide," including by alleging that election software was created at the direction of deceased Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez.
24% : "When there's fraud, the rules get changed," Trump allegedly said during a Jan. 4 meeting where he encouraged Pence to reject the results, according to Pence's five pages of handwritten notes from the meeting.
22% : According to prosecutors, Trump and his allies sought to take advantage of the confusion, which the former president could later use as a basis to claim that voter fraud occurred.
22% : According to the filing, Trump remained skeptical of the idea of conceding and instead embraced lawsuits to challenge the election results.
19% : Trump allegedly planned to declare victory from the startDespite learning that the results of the 2020 election were unlikely to be finalized on election night, Trump planned to declare victory regardless and "create confusion," prosecutors allege.
18% : According to prosecutors, a witness is prepared to testify that Trump mocked Powell for the remarks and described them as "crazy," even though "he adopted and amplified" the same allegations.
18% : Trump responded, prosecutors allege.
17% : A year after Trump pleaded not guilty to federal charges of undertaking a "criminal scheme" to overturn the election results in order to remain in power, Smith in August filed a pared-down indictment that removed allegations likely to have been considered official acts, after the Supreme Court ruled that Trump is entitled to immunity from criminal prosecution for official acts undertaken while in office.
17% : As Trump pursued legal challenges of the election results in states he had lost, Pence reportedly said he attempted to encourage the former president to accept the defeat and move on to the next election.
5% : Trump allegedly described claims of voter fraud as 'crazy'According to prosecutors, Trump privately remarked that claims of voter fraud made by a co-conspirator -- identified by ABC News as Sidney Powell -- were "crazy," despite adopting and amplifying the same allegations as he pushed to overturn the election results.

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