Trump January 6 case: five key points in the latest filing against former president

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

65% : Trump gave his speech, and at 1pm, the certification process began at the Capitol.
53% : The filing states that Pence "tried to encourage" Trump "as a friend" when news networks forecast a Biden win on 7 November.
50% : Seven hours later, at 8.17am, Trump tweeted about it again.
50% : Trump, meanwhile, "settled in the dining room off of the Oval Office.
48% : "It was from the dining room that Trump watched a crowd of his supporters march towards the Capitol.
45% : This again goes to the assertion that Trump acted in a private capacity.
43% : Trump, when told Pence had been evacuated, said: 'So what?'The filing states that Trump said: "So what?" after being told that Pence had subsequently been taken to a secure location.
42% : "Here are some key points made in the filing:'Fundamentally a private' schemeThe new court filing, in which Trump is referred to as "the defendant", alleges that Trump's plan that day was "fundamentally a private one", and therefore not related to his duties as president but instead as a candidate for office.
41% : On Truth Social, Trump, writing in all-caps, called it "complete and total election interference.
37% : At this point, according to the filing, Trump "decided to re-insert into his campaign speech at the Ellipse remarks targeting Pence for his refusal to misuse his role in the certification".
34% : "Among these advisers was a person referred to as P9, a White House staffer who had been one of several attorneys who represented Trump in his first impeachment trial in the Senate in 2019 and 2020, according to the filing.
33% : The indictment seeks to make this case - that Trump acted in his private capacity, rather than his official one - because of a US supreme court ruling in July that former presidents have broad immunity from criminal prosecution for official actions taken as president.
32% : "On 4 January, the filing says, a White House counsel was excluded from a meeting during which Trump sought to pressure Pence to help overturn the election result.
28% : "At 2.24pm, Trump tweeted, writing, '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.
28% : "Trump knew his claims were falseThe filing states: "The evidence demonstrates that the defendant knew his fraud claims were false because he continued to make those claims even after his close advisors - acting not in an official capacity but in a private or campaign-related capacity - told them they were not true.
26% : "P9 at one point after the election told Trump "that the campaign was looking into his fraud claims, and had even hired external experts to do so, but could find no support for them.
23% : Pence allegedly told Trump: "You took a dying political party and gave it a new lease on life".'Fight like hell' regardlessThe filing states Trump was overheard telling family members, amid his efforts to overturn the election results: "It doesn't matter if you lose ... you have to fight like hell.""At one point long after the defendant had begun spreading false fraud claims, [name redacted] a White House staffer traveling with the defendant, overheard him tell family members that, "it doesn't matter if you won or lost the election.
19% : Shortly before his speech at the Ellipse, Trump called Pence and again pressured him to "induce him to act unlawfully in the upcoming session", where Pence would be certifying the election results.

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