Special counsel Jack Smith on Tuesday said he plans to show Donald Trump's historical record of peddling election lies and his 'consistent refusal' to commit to the peaceful transfer of power as he seeks to establish the former president's motive to overturn the 2020 vote count, during the trial in his federal election interference case.
During the trial scheduled for March 4, the government intends to present evidence of efforts by an unnamed, unindicted co-conspirator who worked for Trump's campaign to obstruct the election result. Smith alleges the staffer 'encouraged rioting and other methods of obstruction' in text messages he sent to a lawyer working for the campaign at the TCF Center in Detroit, Michigan, upon learning that then-candidate Joe Biden was ahead in the vote count.
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