The Trump case Feds told the court that Donald Trump HAS a history of used suggestive comments to get people to do his dirty work….
They point to the protestors storming the Capitol in a effort to stop Congress from verifying the 2020 election which would keep Trump in office despite the states votes for electors…..
The protestors turned a violent mob didn’t just do their action on their own…
If fact several have advanced the defence that the ex-President TOLD THEM to come and protest the rigged election results….
That defence has NOT keep some of the supporters/protester’s from be convicted of crimes done 0n that day…
“Evidence of the defendant’s post-conspiracy embrace of particularly violent and notorious rioters is admissible to establish the defendant’s motive and intent on January 6 — that he sent supporters, including groups like the Proud Boys, whom he knew were angry, and whom he now calls ‘patriots,’ to the Capitol to achieve the criminal objective of obstructing the congressional certification,” prosecutors alleged in a nine-page filing….
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Trial courts generally don’t let prosecutors introduce evidence of crimes that a defendant has not been charged with. But judges make exceptions for evidence that the government can show is closely tied to the alleged offense or a person’s intent, motive and knowledge. Trump’s attorneys can respond to the prosecutors’ filing by arguing to exclude such evidence as inflammatory or irrelevant.
In their notice to the court, parts of which were redacted under court rules to prevent the public release of sensitive investigation information, prosecutors argued that Trump’s baseless claims of election fraud and vote-rigging have been part of his political playbook since before his 2016 election. Trump deployed false accusations to dismiss past defeats and undermine future ones, they said, laying the “foundation” for his criminal plan to unlawfully retain power in 2020…..