I have one quibble with Smith's briefing right out of the gate. In the first paragraph of Section I on page 3:

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”)

Smith's causality here on the printed page is not technically correct from what I recall about the entire chain of events.

As I understand it, Trump's efforts to subvert the RESULT of the 2020 election began BEFORE the election, not as a consequence of actually having lost it. He was EXPECTING to lose, thought the losing margin was going to be small enough to stir controversy and adopted a strategy of exponentially magnifying that controversy in the hopes that enough Republicans in enough swing states would go along and overturn their own electoral slates. He began having conversations with his insane clown posse of lawyers sometime in early October 2020, not the day after the election.

More to come but that jumps out at me.


WTH