Jack Smith’s immunity filing turns Trump’s Jan. 6 defense into a liability
The newly unsealed special counsel filing kept landing as the day’s central Trump-world problem, because it framed the post-election effort not as routine legal advocacy but as a sustained private campaign to cling to power. That matters because the filing put new documentary flesh on a case Trump has spent years trying to recast as political persecution. The more the record shows him pressing aides, officials, and allies after losing, the harder it becomes for him to sell the fantasy that this was all normal presidential conduct.
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Jack Smith’s immunity filing turns Trump’s Jan. 6 defense into a liability
The newly unsealed special counsel filing kept landing as the day’s central Trump-world problem, because it framed the post-election effort not as routine legal advocacy but as a sustained private campaign to cling to power. That matters because the filing put new documentary flesh on a case Trump has spent years trying to recast as political persecution. The more the record shows him pressing aides, officials, and allies after losing, the harder it becomes for him to sell the fantasy that this…
The newly unsealed special counsel filing kept landing as the day’s central Trump-world problem, because it framed the post-election effort not as routine legal advocacy but as a sustained private campaign to cling to power. That matters because the filing put new documentary flesh on a case Trump has spent years trying to recast as political persecution. The more the record shows him pressing aides, officials, and …
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