Ex-U.S. Attorney Spots New ‘Nail In The Coffin Of Trump’s Intent’
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“It is very, very powerful evidence if you look at it with the prism of what Jack Smith has to prove at trial," said Harry Litman.
Former U.S. attorney Harry Litman explained why newly-emerged testimony, including from former Donald Trump White House deputy chief of staff for communications Dan Scavino, is the “final nail in the coffin” that proves the then-president had no intention of calling off his supporters during their attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
Trump “was just not interested” in halting the violence, Scavino told special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into Trump’s efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss to President Joe Biden and Trump’s role in the insurrection, per a new report from ABC News on Sunday.
“If you think of it through the vantage point of the prosecution, the one thing that Trump could maybe try through surrogates to claim at trial is, ‘It took him by surprise. He never knew this would happen,’” Litman, who is now an analyst for MSNBC, said on Monday.
“You’ve heard claims of that. It seems dubious but you take Scavino and put him on the stand. Anyone who’d had that attitude would of course have been mortified and done everything they could to stop it, not rejoiced it, say ‘Who cares about Mike Pence?’ etc,” he continued in video posted by Mediaite. “
Litman described the testimony as “very, very powerful evidence if you look at it with the prism of what Jack Smith has to prove at trial.”
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