Trump's election interference trial explained

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : They also spoke with Georgia secretary of state Brad Raffensperger, who was on the other end of a call with Trump when he demanded that the state's top elections official "find 11,780 votes" - enough for him to overturn Biden's victory there.
44% : The House select committee unanimously agreed that Trump should be charged for inciting an insurrection and giving aid or comfort to insurrectionists -- a rare and severe charge that prosecutors will approach only with extreme caution, if they decide to bring it at all.
43% : After delivering remarks to a rally of his supporters while a joint session of Congress convened to certify 2020 election results, a speech that allegedly incited his supporters to storm the Capitol, Trump stood by for 187 minutes before he told them to go home.
42% : After a lengthy appeals process, the Supreme Court agreed to hear his defense, and ultimately agreed in July that Trump has some immunity from prosecution for his actions while in the White House.
42% : Smith's team scrambled to file another indictment, retaining the same four charges against Trump while navigating the Supreme Court's decision affirming that a president is "absolutely" immune from criminal prosecution for actions that stem from official duties in office, and given "presumptive" immunity for actions in the "outer perimeter" of those duties.
37% : Federal prosecutors also talked to former Arizona governor Doug Ducey, who silenced a call from Trump while he was in the middle of certifying his state's election results -- a process that was being live-streamed and carried across news outlets.
32% : Trump faced lawsuits in more than a dozen states challenging his eligibility for office under the scope of the 14th Amendment, which prohibits anyone who has sworn an oath to uphold the Constitution and "engaged in insurrection or rebellion" from holding public office.
29% : In May 2020, when the presidential election was still months away, Trump said it would be "rigged" against him if he were to lose.
28% : Central to the investigation is whether Trump knew that he had lost but pressed ahead with spurious efforts to overturn election results anyway.
27% : The filing then documents the state-by-state efforts by Trump, his unindicted co-conspirators and allies to pressure state officials, election workers and others to validate his scheme to reverse the loss, then organize allies to submit fraudulent election certificates falsely stating that he won.
27% : On 4 March, the day Trump was initially set to stand trial for his attempts to overturn his 2020 loss, the Supreme Court determined that states cannot unilaterally disqualify candidates for federal elections, a job that can only be done by Congress, according to the high court.
11% : Trump and 18 co-defendants were separately charged in Georgia in a sprawling racketeering case that mirrored the federal case, including Trump's alleged pressure campaign against state officials and his then-Vice President Mike Pence to subvert election results against the will of Georgia voters.

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