Jack Smith makes damning new allegations about January 6

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : "The details don't matter," Trump responded.
56% : It says that Trump told three advisers before Election Day that, if he had an early lead in the vote count on election night due to slower counting of mail-in ballots -- which were expected to favor Biden -- he would "simply declare victory before all the ballots were counted and any winner was projected.
55% : In it, Trump strategist Steve Bannon said that on election night, "Trump is gonna declare victory.
53% : Trump signed it anyway.
45% : "It doesn't matter if you won or lost the election," Trump told members of his family at another point, according to the brief.
39% : At a private lunch on November 12, Pence suggested that Trump, even if he refused to concede, should "recognize the process is over."
39% : Trump knew that he had "only one last hope to prevent Biden's certification as president, the large and angry crowd standing in front of him," the filing says.
36% : Smith also points out that even as Trump pressured state election officials in states where he was narrowly defeated to refuse to certify his loss, he didn't bother checking with them on the validity of his claims.
26% : "These officials would have been the best sources of information to determine whether there was any merit to specific allegations of election fraud in their states," but Trump "never contacted any of them to ask," the motion says.
24% : The document directly faults Trump for inciting the mob of supporters who attacked Congress on January 6 as part of his effort to disrupt the certification proceedings that day.
24% : At another private lunch on December 21, Pence suggested Trump, once his legal efforts were exhausted, should "take a bow," meaning admit defeat.
21% : The motion notes that attorneys, whose names are redacted, told Trump that the document contained inaccurate claims.
20% : Trump "did exactly that" on election night, the brief notes, claiming that he should have won but was a victim of voter fraud.
20% : "Smith alleges in the filing that Trump signed a "verification of fraud" that he knew was false as part of a lawsuit he filed aimed at overturning his defeat in Georgia.
19% : Pence, the filing reveals, repeatedly urged Trump to accept defeat.
15% : Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung claimed without evidence Wednesday that Smith's motion was part of an effort by the Biden administration to "weaponize" the Justice Department against Trump.
14% : Pence's refusal to break the law led Trump to include lines calling on the vice president to do "the right thing," in his remarks, helping drive anger at Pence when he did not comply with Trump's demands.
7% : "The filing adds new evidence that Trump knew his election fraud claims were false but proceeded anyway with a scheme to use so-called fake electors and outside pressure to stop Joe Biden's electoral victory from being made official.
3% : Special Counsel Jack Smith, in a court filing made public on Wednesday, revealed a litany of damning new allegations about former President Donald Trump's attempts to steal the 2020 election -- details that could impact the neck-in-neck presidential race between Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris.

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