Special Counsel Jack Smith has obtained details from Trump’s own aides about the former president’s refusal to halt the 1/6 attacks.
Trump’s own White House aides provide Jack Smith with damning evidence against him
Other White House advisers who previously refused to answer questions about President Trump’s own statements and behavior on January 6, 2021, despite being removed from office in a congressional investigation, according to public records. New details also emerged from interviews with Smith’s team and top lawyers. The content of their interviews in that study.
Officials said Scavino told Smith’s investigators that the violence had begun to escalate that day. playing cards They „just weren’t interested“ in doing more to stop it.
Sources also said that former Trump aide Nick Luna told federal investigators that when Trump informed him that then-Vice President Mike Pence needed to be rushed to a safe location, Trump The president reportedly said his reaction was, „So what?“ Luna saw this as President Trump’s unexpected willingness to tolerate potential harm to his longtime supporters, the people said.
The evidence Jack Smith is collecting is devastating for Trump
The media and Republicans can keep pretending that the 1/6 incident and the attack on democracy won’t matter to Trump in 2024, but how will Trump lead the attack on America and stop it? The problem will not go away as details continue to emerge about what was done and what was done.
Trump needs to win the 2024 election, but that doesn’t mean the special counsel is pursuing a tough investigation into Trump, who tried to stay in power illegally even after losing the 2020 election. That’s why.
A return to the White House could literally be a get-out-of-jail-free card for Donald Trump, and depending on how quickly Trump’s immunity application is decided, the former president could be convicted of a felony by Election Day. There is a possibility that it will become.
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