Judge Releases Damning Excerpts From Jack Smith's January 6 Case Against Trump -- 35 Days Before the Election

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

45% : Trump, Mr. Smith writes, "sought to encroach on powers specifically assigned by the Constitution to other branches, to advance his own self-interest and perpetuate himself in power, contrary to the will of the people" because the "executive branch has no authority or function to choose the next president.
45% : "The special counsel notes that on January 6 Trump, "alone in his dining room," tweeted that "Mike Pence didn't have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our Country and our Constitution giving States a chance to certify a corrected set of facts, not the fraudulent or inaccurate ones which they were asked to previously certify.
40% : The prosecutor notes that Trump began tweeting before he became president, and shared private content like "a picture of himself golfing with Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods.
40% : Trump, who argued that the release of this document so close to the election amounts to election interference and violates the Department of Justice's own guidelines, now has two weeks to write a rebuttal.
38% : Mr. Smith contends that while Trump "was the incumbent President during the charged conspiracies, his scheme was fundamentally a private one," and that he "acted as a candidate when he pursued multiple criminal means to disrupt, through fraud and deceit" the collection and counting of votes.
30% : The document, called a "Motion for Immunity Determinations," makes the case that Trump can be tried and convicted despite the Supreme Court's grant of presidential immunity.
24% : Another staffer is reported to have heard Trump say "the details don't matter" with respect to the litigation strategy to reverse the results of the election.
21% : The special counsel alleges that when Trump was told Mr. Pence was in danger, he responded, "So what?"Mr. Smith describes an adviser to Trump -- the name is redacted -- boasting three days before the election that his boss was "going to declare victory.

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