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52% : "However, Chutkan, has maintained that the high court's decision instructs her to conduct a close analysis to separate Trump's conduct into three buckets: core official actions, actions within the outer perimeter of his official duties and unofficial.Smith in his major filing aims to give Chutkan the opportunity to make a single determination on which of Trump's actions are official or unofficial acts, a move meant to give Trump just one decision he could appeal to the Supreme Court.
51% : "Although the defendant was the incumbent president during the charged conspiracies, his scheme was fundamentally a private one."While portions of the motion are redacted -- such certain names and information from sensitive materials like grand jury testimony -- Smith details how, even before the 2020 election, Trump laid the groundwork with private and campaign advisors to simply declare himself the winner before all mail-in ballots could be counted.
49% : At a Nov. 16 lunch, Pence encouraged Trump to accept the election results and just run again in 2024, to which Trump responded "I don't know, 2024 is so far off.
37% : The emphasis that Trump acted on the advice of private and campaign staffers is important, as Smith argued such conduct is clearly outside the scope of Trump's duties as president and therefore liable to prosecution.
35% : "Smith wrote that a key piece of evidence he would use at trial is a pattern in which Trump and his co-conspirators repeatedly changed the numbers of their fraud claims.
31% : The plot culminated on Jan. 6, where Trump argued Pence could certify their ballots after conservative lawmakers in Congress raised objections, a scheme known as the "Green Bay Sweep.""When the defendant took the stage at the Ellipse rally to speak to the supporters who had gathered there at his urging, he knew that Pence had refused, once and for all, to use the defendant's fraudulent electors' certificates," Smith wrote.
30% : The 165-page filing is part of Smith's efforts to convince U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan that Trump can still be tried -- if he does not win back the presidency on Nov. 5 -- on his efforts to overturn his 2020 electoral defeat under the Supreme Court's sweeping immunity decision this summer.
23% : Trump has decried the filing as a "politically motivated manifesto" and clear election interference with just weeks remaining in the presidential campaign and has argued that moving forward with the criminal case threatens the office of the presidency itself.
22% : According to Smith, similar manufactured altercations occurred at tabulation centers across the country, including in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and in Maricopa County, Arizona, which Trump used to claim that his election observers were being wrongfully denied access and was proof of election fraud.
18% : Prosecutor's brief argues Trump can still be criminally tried over efforts to overturn 2020 election following Supreme Court's sweeping immunity decisionA federal judge unsealed special counsel Jack Smith's major immunity brief in Donald Trump's election interference case on Wednesday, making public what is likely to be Smith's most extensive accounting of Trump's conduct prior to the looming election.
14% : Immediately following the Nov. 3, 2020 election, Smith says Trump's "private operatives" began creating chaos at polling places in states still counting votes, such as the TCF Center in Detroit, Michigan, where it appeared Trump was going to lose the state.
11% : Then-Vice President Mike Pence also reportedly repeatedly told Trump that even he did not believe his claims of election fraud and tried to convince him to give up and acknowledge his lack of evidence.
10% : Trump then fired the advisors responsible for his legal election challenges, and placed a private attorney -- referred to as co-conspirator 1, but has been publicly identified as Rudy Giuliani -- willing to further his false claims that Trump was the true victor.
10% : In a Truth Social post, Trump called the filing "falsehood-ridden" and "unconstitutional," and said it was an obvious move by Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris to interfere with the looming election and make up for "Tim Walz's disastrous debate performance.
9% : Smith also detailed Trump's complicated and unsuccessful efforts to pressure swing state election officials to use false slates of electors to hand their states' electoral votes over to Trump.

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