Special Counsel Jack Smith’s 165-page brief reveals that the GOP presidential nominee pushed forward his “Big Lie” against the advice of top Republicans.
’s 165-page brief that was partially unsealed Wednesday, exposing a trove of damning allegations against the former president just over a month before Election Day.
The brief detailed Trump’s alleged behind-the-scene’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election results. Key to Trump’s so-called “Big Lie” was to prove that Dominion voting machines were manipulated in states such as Michigan.Smith’s brief claimed that Trump’s team took the report to McDaniel, the former chair of the Michigan Republican Party, and asked her to publicize it.
The relationship between Ronna McDaniel and Donald Trump, photographed above in 2018, was never the same after she didn’t buy in to his election-denying claims.Smith’s brief said McDaniel “refused” Trump’s request in December and advised the then-president that she’d already discussed it with the speaker of the Michigan House, a Republican, who gave the “exact assessment” that the “report was f---ing nuts.
Even without the RNC’s blessing, Trump and his team allegedly pushed forward with lies about Dominion machines—only to be met with more resistance. Among those who offered a similar assessment was Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, who Trump infamously called on Jan. 2, 2021, and asked him to “find 11,780 votes.”, was included in Smith’s brief: “I don’t believe that you’re really questioning the Dominion machines.
As a result, Trump reportedly had a harsh falling out with both McDaniel and Raffensperger for not buying into his voter fraud crusade., despite his public rift with Trump, but McDaniel resigned from the RNC in February as Trump began his takeover of the national party by
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