Trump 'resorted to crimes,' bullied VP Mike Pence in Jan. 6 election interference plot: newly unsealed filing

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

63% : In another private lunch days later, Pence urged Trump to accept the results of the election and run again in 2024.
58% : Trump was hit with a new streamlined superseding indictment in the case after the Supreme Court ruling last summer.
52% : "I'm going to have to say you did a great disservice," Trump told Pence, according to the filing.
47% : At a private lunch the two had on Nov. 12, 2020, Pence "reiterated a face-saving option" for Trump, telling him, "don't concede but recognize the process is over," according to prosecutors.
45% : After delivering a fiery speech to supporters, Trump returned to the White House where he watched the violence at the Capitol unfold on TV.
35% : "I don't know, 2024 is so far off," Trump told him, according to the filing.
35% : The filing almost surely marks the last chance for the public to assess and discover previously unknown actions carried out by Trump before he faces the verdict of voters in the 2024 election.
30% : Prosecutors said Trump acted in his private capacity as a presidential candidate, not in his official capacity as president, for which the top court said he could not be held criminally accountable.
21% : Trump already faces sentencing after Election Day for his criminal conviction in the Manhattan hush money case in which he was convicted.
16% : On Jan. 6, Trump threatened to call out Pence to his violent extremist supporters if he did not cave.
13% : As the Jan. 6, 2021 certification date drew near, Trump ramped up efforts to bully Pence into bowing to his scheme to accept fake pro-Trump slates of electoral votes from some battleground states, a plot designed to throw Biden's election into doubt.
12% : The filing quotes Trump as telling an aide "So what?" when he was told Pence could be in danger after violent supporters stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
8% : A Trump spokesman derided the filing as part of a liberal witch hunt to tarnish Trump and prevent him from beating Democrat Kamala Harris and winning a return to the White House.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.