The recent court filing by Jack Smith regarding Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election have laid out in detail what we know about that effort and how it might inform the 2024 election. The key takeaway - aside from Trump being, you know, guilty AF - is that Trump's plan was always to deny the election result and declare victory anyway.
The evidence - supplied by Republicans close to Trump - shows that Trump knew he had lost but was going to find a way to fight it out anyway. This is exactly who he is. Trump does not give the slightest damn about democratic norms. He actively hates them.
The combination of Vance refusing to say who won the 2020 election, Liz Cheney joining Harris for campaign events and now the Smith filing lays out pretty clearly what Trump did in 2020. He knew he lost, he incited the mob, he didn't care if Mike Pence got killed...it's really bad!
The question as to whether that's the entirety of his plan for 2024 is unknown. I'm bullish on Harris, but if Trumpist election officials manage to gum up the works as they tried to do in 2020, they could aim for more civil unrest.
Part of me, however, is hoping/confidant that with Democrats in charge of the governorships in PA, MI, WI, AZ and NC (and Kemp in GA being a "Cheney Republican") that violence and criminality will be kept to a real minimum. Plus, Biden has control of the Federal government. I'm going to assume that every third person in a Proud Boys chat room is an FBI agent.
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