The special counsel team prosecuting former President Donald Trump for interference in the 2020 presidential election is signaling it wants to use Trump’s false claims about election fraud dating back a decade to demonstrate “his motive, intent, and plan” to cling to power.
In a new court filing, prosecutors said Trump had a record of refusing to honor the peaceful transition of power — and a pattern of sidelining people who pushed back on his bogus assertions of fraud, including the former chief counsel to the Republican National Committee and a Georgia election worker, sometimes encouraging violence against them.
Senior Assistant Special Counsel Molly Gaston wrote the Justice Department planned to introduce evidence at next year’s trial about an unnamed and unindicted co-conspirator who worked on Trump’s 2020 campaign.
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