Trump accuses Harris of election interference over release of court document

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : "Trump's private political advisor told a group of supporters the then-president's strategy was to "declare himself a winner".Three days before the election, the aide said: "And what Trump's going to do is just declare victory.
49% : Among the claims made in the document are that Trump planned to "declare himself a winner" in the 2020 election before ballots were counted, and that he responded "so what" when he was told that Mike Pence, his vice president, was rushed to safety as the Capitol was stormed by rioters.
49% : He said Trump was going to "take advantage" of Joe Biden's supporters favouring mail-in ballots.
41% : The timing of the release prompted a furious response from Trump on Wednesday night.
40% : According to a White House staffer travelling with Trump, some time after he began "spreading false fraud claims", he told family members: "It doesn't mater if you won or lost the election.
40% : In August last year, Trump was charged with four counts relating to his alleged attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
39% : There will not be a trial anytime soon - or perhaps ever, if Trump returns to the White House.
39% : In the Supreme Court this summer, justices ruled that Trump was immune from prosecution for conduct involving his interactions with the Justice Department.
34% : After losing to Joe Biden in the 2020 election, Trump "resorted to crimes to try to stay in office".
33% : In November 12 2020, the former vice president told Trump that he should not concede but "recognise [that the] process is over".
30% : One campaign employee and alleged co-conspirator "tried to sow confusion" at a polling station in Detroit, Michigan, which looked "unfavourable" for Trump.
29% : The 165-page brief, filed last week but only publicly revealed today, is most likely Mr Smith's final opportunity to detail his case against Trump before the election.
27% : The employee, who is referred to as P9 in the partially redacted document, told Trump the claims would get "slaughtered" in court.
27% : Prosecutors also accuse Trump of "directing an angry crowd of supporters to the United States Capitol to obstruct the congressional certification" on 6 January 2021.
26% : Trump went on to say that Jack Smith, the special counsel appointed by the justice department in November 2022 to lead the prosecution and investigation into him, was deranged and "hell-bent on weaponizing the Justice Department.
25% : Trump was told by one aide, who is referred to as P9 in the filing, that he "could not mount successful legal challenges to the election".
25% : "On December 21, the then-vice president "encouraged" Trump "not to look at the election 'just as a loss - just an intermission.'
23% : When Trump said he would only pay his lawyer if he "succeeded", P9 told him "he would never have to pay" him anything, to which Trump laughed and said "we'll see".
23% : Trump, then the US president, was told that his vice president had been forced to flee the Capitol on January 6 2021 as rioters burst in, according to court documents filed by special counsel Jack Smith.
22% : After P9 again told the defendant he would be unable to prove his false fraud allegations in court, Trump is said to have replied: "The details don't matter.
22% : "10:15 PM BSTThe tough special counsel aiming to put Trump in jailWhen Alexi Schacht was asked to defend Manzoor Qadar, who was accused of murdering his niece's husband as part of an honour killing, he thought it would be a doddle.
20% : Jack Smith filed a superseding indictment in August which kept the four initial charges against Trump but narrowed the scope of the allegations.
20% : Trump then publicly began to "plant the seeds" for the false declaration, according to the filing.
19% : A US judge has made the 165-page document public, in which prosecutors lay out their evidence that allegedly shows Trump illegally tried to overturn his 2020 election defeat.
16% : "09:44 PM BSTPence encouraged Trump to accept defeat and see it as 'intermission'Mike Pence encouraged Donald Trump to see his 2020 election defeat not as a "loss" but an "intermission".
12% : 10:17 PM BSTCourt filing: Trump knew election fraud claims were falseTrump and his co-conspirators continued to make false claims about election fraud "even after they had been publicly disproven" and advisers told him they were untrue.
12% : The court filing alleges Trump "knew his fraud claims were false" because a White House staffer and Mike Pence told him they were not true.
11% : Trump 'said 'so what' when Mike Pence was rushed to safety'Donald Trump said "so what" when Mike Pence was rushed to safety during the Capitol riots, a new court filing reveals.
5% : "On New Year's day in 2021, Trump warned Mike Pence that people would "hate your guts" and "think you're stupid" if his vice president did not intervene in Congress' certification of Joe Biden's victory, according to the filing.11:04 PM BSTTrump claims Democrats have 'weaponised the justice department'Donald Trump has fired out a barrage of Truth Social posts after new documents in his "election interference" case were made public.

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