Trump 'resorted to crimes' after losing 2020 election in bid to keep power, prosecutors say

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% : "The filing includes details of conversations between Trump and Pence, including a private lunch the two had on Nov. 12, 2020, in which Pence "reiterated a face-saving option" for Trump, telling him, "don't concede but recognize the process is over," according to prosecutors.
54% : The filing from special counsel Jack Smith's team offers the most comprehensive view to date of what prosecutors intend to prove if the case charging Trump with conspiring to overturn the election reaches trial.
35% : "I don't know, 2024 is so far off," Trump told him, according to the filing.
27% : But Trump "disregarded" Pence "in the same way he disregarded dozens of court decisions that unanimously rejected his and his allies' legal claims, and that he disregarded officials in the targeted states -- including those in his own party -- who stated publicly that he had lost and that his specific fraud allegations were false," prosecutors wrote.
26% : The filing was submitted, initially under seal, following a Supreme Court opinion that conferred broad immunity on former presidents for official acts they take in office, narrowing the scope of the prosecution charging Trump with conspiring to overturn the results of the election he lost to Democrat Joe Biden.
23% : "The details don't matter," Trump said, when told by an adviser that a lawyer who was mounting his legal challenges wouldn't be able to prove the false allegations in court, the filing states.
20% : Trump's "steady stream of disinformation" in the weeks after the election culminated in his speech at the Ellipse on the morning of Jan. 6, 2021, in which Trump "used these lies to inflame and motivate the large and angry crowd of his supporters to march to the Capitol and disrupt the certification proceeding," prosecutors wrote.
11% : the filing quotes Trump as telling an aide after being alerted that his vice president, Mike Pence, was in potential danger after a crowd of violent supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

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