Jack Smith shows his cards just in time: January 6 case looks like the winning hand against Trump

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

47% : Sometimes that is what being a citizen in a democracy demands -- especially so in the age of Trump.
43% : Smith makes clear that the charges, which could very well land Trump in jail, are not going away.
41% : Smith's filing follows on the monumental report of the January 6 Committee, Smith's August 2023 indictment of Trump for his role in January 6 and the superseding indictment handed down one year later.
39% : "Smith's filing suggests that Trump surely knew "how to do wrong" in his quest to "maintain his power" despite a democratic decision to oust him from the Oval Office.
33% : "But Trump turned the Machiavellian tables on Pence.
28% : As Smith puts it in simple straightforward prose, Trump "resorted to crimes to cling to power.
28% : Smith arrays these facts in a narrative driven by the need to convince Federal District Court Judge Tanya Chutkin that what Trump did was not done in his capacity as president, but rather as a candidate for office.
24% : And this time, Trump was not taken in.
24% : "The defendant disregarded," Smith says, "Pence in the same way that he disregarded dozens of court decisions that unanimously rejected his and his allies' legal claims, and that he disregarded officials in the targeted states -- including those in his own party -- who stated publicly that he had lost and that his specific fraud allegations were false."On January 6, when Trump learned from an aide that Pence had to be hustled to a secure location in the Capitol as the mob he dispatched chanted "Hang Mike Pence," the former president showed his callous ruthlessness when he responded, "so what?"Shocking but not surprising.
18% : Smith has exposed the truth of what Trump did and, in so doing, punches holes in Trump's deceptions and delusions.
5% : Pence seems to have mounted a campaign to flatter and cajole Trump into giving up on his lies about the 2020 election and accepting defeat.

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