Jack Smith expands Trump election interference case by adding 'a range of evidence'

While simultaneously prosecuting two separate cases against former President Donald Trump — one involving classified White House documents being stored at Mar-a-Lago, the other dealing with his efforts to overturn the 2020 election results — special counsel Jack Smith has continued to add evidence in each one. Politico's Kyle Cheney, on Tuesday, December 5, tweeted court documents showing that Smith is "planning to introduce a range of evidence" in the election interference case — including material showing "Trump's repeated efforts to cast doubt on the 2012 and 2016 election results."

Cheney, in a thread on X (formerly Twitter), reports, "Smith also plans to show that Trump in 2016 and 2020 repeatedly refused to commit to a peaceful transfer of power…. Prosecutors say they intend to introduce evidence that a Trump campaign employee (and unindicted coconspirator) 'encouraged rioting' at the TCF Center in Detroit when the vote count began to favor Biden."

On the campaign trail, Trump continues to claim that the 2020 election was stolen from him — a claim that has been repeatedly debunked. Smith alleges that Trump knows he lost the 2020 election to now-President Joe Biden but tried to stay in the White House anyway, which is also what Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis alleges in a separate case that she is prosecuting for the State of Georgia.

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According to Cheney, "Smith also plans to show that Trump in 2016 and 2020 repeatedly refused to commit to a peaceful transfer of power…. Prosecutors say they intend to introduce evidence that a Trump campaign employee (and unindicted coconspirator) 'encouraged rioting' at the TCF Center in Detroit when the vote count began to favor Biden."

Cheney adds, "MORE: Prosecutors want to show that before and *after* Jan. 6,Trump and his allies tried to exact revenge on those who didn't support their fraud claims — including a former chief counsel of the RNC…. Lastly, Smith wants to show evidence of Trump's open embrace of some of the most violent Jan. 6 rioters — and his promise to consider pardoning many of those who breached the Capitol."

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