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Unaffiliated 8/13/23 source article link: "45 pages every American should read"
Article excerpts, emphasis is added:
"The indictment clearly states that President Trump “had a right, like every American, to speak publicly about the election, and even claim, falsely, that there had been outcome-determinative fraud during the election and he had won.” So the charges against him concern conduct — his unlawful attempt to disenfranchise legal voters and subvert election results — and not Trump’s First Amendment right to free speech.
The indictment demonstrates that Republican state legislators, election officials, and members of the Trump Administration repeatedly and unequivocally told the president he had lost the election and systematically debunked specific claims of widespread fraud. A partial list includes the Speaker of the House in Arizona; the Speaker of the House and Senate Majority Leader in Michigan; the Philadelphia City Commissioner; the Secretary of State in Georgia; leaders of the Department of Justice, including the Attorney General, Acting Attorney General...."[etc. etc.; long list of officials..]
Virtually all claims of fraud, moreover, were dismissed or rejected in no fewer than sixty court proceedings, including more than a few presided over by judges who had been appointed by Trump himself.
Nonetheless, Trump continued to insist that voting machines in several states had been programmed to switch votes to Biden; 149,772 illegal votes were dumped in “corrupt” Detroit, Michigan; 10,000 out-of-state and dead individuals voted in Georgia; 30,000 non-citizens voted in Arizona; tens of thousands double-voted in Nevada; 205,000 more votes were recorded in Pennsylvania than the number of registered voters in the state.
These false claims provided the justification for a multifaceted campaign, directed by the president and in violation of multiple federal statutes, to overturn the 2020 election. Trump and his co-conspirators pressured state legislators and election officials to delay or reject certification of the results reported by Democratic counties and to find more Trump votes. The president directed Acting Attorney General Jeffrey A. Rosen to send a letter to officials in battleground states indicating that the DOJ had identified “significant concerns” (later changed to “significant irregularities”) that may have affected the outcome. When Rosen demurred, Trump said, “Just say that the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the Republican congressmen.” And the president made plans to replace Rosen with a more pliable Acting Attorney General..."
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...There is much more via the source above, and in the indictment, "UNITED STATES OF AMERICA vs. DONALD J. TRUMP", here....
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