Maddow Blog | Judge unseals Jack Smith's filing in case on Trump, 2020 election

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

49% : Just as importantly, as NBC News' report added, prosecutors believe they have evidence that the then-president told his team that he "would simply declare victory before all the ballots were counted and a winner was projected," indifferent to the election's actual outcome, and Trump publicly began laying the groundwork by telling his supporters he'd only lose if there were fraud.
45% : Trump replied, according to prosecutors.
32% : For example, a White House aide, after learning that then-Vice President Mike Pence had been taken to a secure location during the pro-Trump riot, rushed to tell Trump in the hopes that he'd care.
30% : Trump and his team were not eager for this filing to reach the public ahead of Election Day.
21% : Similarly, a member of the then-president's legal team tried to give Trump an "honest assessment," not only of his election defeat, but also of the fact that his lies about the results would not withstand court scrutiny.
20% : Making matters worse is that this court filing (a) reminds voters during an election season that Trump is an accused felon; and (b) adds new details to the charges that Americans haven't before seen or heard.

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