The Daily Populous Thursday October 3rd, 2024 day edition
Authored by nj.com and submitted by njdotcom

Fox News host Neil Cavuto said Wednesday that a newly unsealed filing in the federal Jan. 6 case revealed former President Trump “resorted to crimes” to stay in office.

“It was in this newly unsealed court paper we’re learning that former President Trump resorted to crimes to cling to power after the 2020 election. We don’t know much more than that,” Cavuto said Wednesday on Fox News.

“A lot of this stuff was going to be coming out anyway. We’re going to be getting the latest on that, and a legal look at what is being revealed here and whether it’s giving us any new information, anything we don’t know. The timing of this, of course, is little more than about five weeks before the general election,” he added.

Prosecutors in the former president’s Jan. 6 case outlined their case against Trump in a newly unsealed court document on Wednesday, where special counsel Jack Smith argues that Trump’s offenses alleged in the case were private actions, not officials ones.

The filing came after a Supreme Court ruling over the summer gave broad immunity to presidents while in office. Smith is trying to argue that the actions he outlined in his case can still remain in his indictment of Trump because they were private acts.

“When the defendant lost the 2020 presidential election, he resorted to crimes to try to stay in office. With private co-conspirators, the defendant launched a series of increasingly desperate plans to overturn the legitimate election results in seven states that he had lost—Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin (the “targeted states”),” the filing reads.

The former president was indicted on four charges related to efforts to interfere with the election last year. Trump railed against the filing in a lengthy rant on Truth Social.

“The release of this falsehood-ridden, Unconstitutional, J6 brief immediately following Tim Walz’s disastrous Debate performance, and 33 days before the Most Important Election in the History of our Country, is another obvious attempt by the Harris-Biden regime to undermine and Weaponize American Democracy, and INTERFERE IN THE 2024 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION,” Trump wrote on Wednesday.

Though a months-long congressional investigation and the indictment itself have chronicled in stark detail Trump’s efforts to undo the election, the new filing cites previously unknown accounts offered by Trump’s closest aides to paint a portrait of an “increasingly desperate” president who while losing his grip on the White House “used deceit to target every stage of the electoral process.”

“So what?” 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.

“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.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

david76 on October 2nd, 2024 at 23:21 UTC »

“It was in this newly unsealed court paper we’re learning that former President Trump resorted to crimes to cling to power after the 2020 election. We don’t know much more than that,” Cavuto said Wednesday

Uhm. Tell me more about how you weren't paying attention for the last four years.

ElPlywood on October 2nd, 2024 at 23:14 UTC »

Cavuto keeps showing he's fucking DONE with Trump.

And he's been calling out Trump's fart catchers to their faces more and more

Sunshinehappyfeet on October 2nd, 2024 at 23:09 UTC »

Reminds me of a former President’s infamous quote:

“I’m not a crook”- Richard M. Nixon.

Vote Blue.