Special counsel Jack Smith refuted former President Donald Trump’s claim on Saturday.
Smith provided new details about his team’s extensive probe into the possibility of foreign governments changing votes in the 2020 election. Additionally, he highlighted their access to a wide range of senior intelligence officials in Trump’s administration.
Smith’s team recounted their interviews with over a dozen top intelligence officers in Trump’s administration in a 45-page document. They spoke with figures ranging from his Director of National Intelligence to the NSA administrator and Trump’s personal intelligence briefer.
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The goal was to acquire information on any evidence showing that foreign governments had infiltrated voting systems in 2020. The filing opposes Trump’s attempt to access classified intelligence. It’s in response to charges that he conspired to subvert the 2020 election.
Trump contends that foreign governments heightened his supporters’ worries about election integrity. He claims classified evidence supports concerns about potential meddling, justifying his fraud fears.
Prosecutors view Trump’s new legal effort as an extension of his election lies. Intelligence officials unanimously reject the notion that foreign governments tampered with vote-counting systems or altered the election tally.
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Instead, intelligence officials documented breaches of state voter registration databases. These breaches allowed influence campaigns but could not execute the vote-stealing scheme Trump propagated.
However, Special Counsel Thomas Windom wrote that Trump attempts to create a “false impression” and “manufacture confusion.” He does this by citing “irrelevant network breaches” and conflating them with potential changes to the vote total.
Moreover, Windom argued Trump’s claims of partisan bias in election intelligence contradicted his appointees’ assessments, backed by various intelligence agencies. Windom also pointed out that a notable instance of bias was allegedly committed by his acting Director of National Intelligence in Trump’s favor.
Trump initially declared the election “virtually impenetrable” to foreign interference just days after the vote, Windom notes. The prosecutor says this view was shared by “every other knowledgeable official” in his administration.
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The filing includes a more detailed breakdown of Smith’s broader investigation than previously known. This is an effort to counter Trump’s contention that he needs access to much wider evidence than the millions of pages prosecutors have provided.
In addition to the officials described in the new filing, Smith has interviewed nearly every senior official in Trump’s West Wing. He has also obtained records from the National Archives, state governments, and dozens of GOP leaders and activists. They were involved in Trump’s effort to send slates of fraudulent presidential electors to Congress.
Moreover, prosecutors countered Trump’s claim that charges against him contradict the Justice Department’s case against January 6 rioters. They argue there’s no contradiction in holding January 6 rioters responsible for their actions while noting they took cues from Trump.
They rejected Trump’s request for details about undercover agents or informants present at the Capitol on January 6.
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