IHIP News - Special Prosecutor Drops Hammer on Trump's 2020 Election Interference

Episode Date: October 3, 2024

Yesterday, Special Prosecutor Jack Smith released the details in his Trump Election Interference case. Trump says he didn't do anything wrong and Fox News is mad at the timing of the release.  Head to linktr.ee/ivehaditpodcast for updates, follow us on socials, and subscribe to the podcast. Follow Us: I've Had It Podcast: @Ivehaditpodcast Jennifer Welch: @mizzwelch Angie "Pumps" Sullivan: @pumpspumpspumps Special thanks to @cnraun for the IHIP Theme SongSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Welcome, welcome to IHIP News, where we share our opinion about the news that is important to us. Today, we know that the October surprise has come in the form of a redacted, unsealed statement of facts regarding Donald Trump's crimes after he lost the election and was too little of a man to admit that he lost a free and fair election. And Pumps, who I don't know if any of you all know, is an attorney and one of America's greatest legal minds, is going to weigh in on the legalese of this situation. Pumps, what you got? Okay, I thought the best place to start when we talk about this 2020 election, the big lie, it was stolen from him, would be the vice presidential debate between J.D.

Vance and Governor Tim Walz. He is still saying he didn't lose the election. I would just ask that. Did he lose the 2020 election? Tim, I'm focused on the future. Did Kamala Harris censor Americans from speaking their mind in the wake of the 2020 COVID situation? That is a damning non-answer. So in that, you see that J.D. Vance is covering for the lies. And I think it's important to remember that the lie was that Donald Trump won the election. And the reason that J.D. Vance is on that stage and not Vice President Mike Pence is because Mike Pence was unwilling to sacrifice principle, democracy, and the Constitution to go all in for Donald Trump

and lie. And so this unsealed, redacted statement from Jack Smith was required by the Supreme Court in the immunity case. And who are the people testifying in this? What is the evidence? There are 76 Republicans on the inner circle of Donald Trump, either campaign, White House officials or his private attorney. So these are not Democrats. These are Trump voters in 2016 and 2020. And then there are six co-conspirators. And what the special prosecutor lays out is there was a criminal conspiracy to stop the Electoral College

from being taken in and ratified to make Joe Biden the president. So basically what Donald Trump did at the top of the conspiracy was try to get rid of America's votes that were not for him. And what's interesting about this is how it's laid out. In the summer of 2020, Donald Trump and his minions decided that because Democrats vote mail-in ballot, that their votes would come in later than in-person voting. And so they started spewing lies about mail-in votes and that he would win and just say he won before the mail-in votes were counted. That was the plan from the summer of 2020.

That's exactly what he did on election night. The insiders, after the votes came in, his campaign, these co-conspirators, they all told him, you lost. You will not win legal challenges. His response was, I don't give a fuck. We're going. And so what he did then is began calling these states, Republicans in these states that he lost and telling them, pressuring them, change the votes. We have evidence, never provided the

evidence. When these Republican officials told him, we do not have the power to do it. And he, the governors in these states testified, the secretary of states, legislators, all Republicans testified that they said, give us the evidence. He never gave them the evidence. They repeatedly told him, we don't have the power to do what you're asking. He would hang up the phone with them and he would immediately criticize them publicly. He tweeted about what a piece of shit Governor Kemp from Georgia was 40 times because he attempted to influence him so many times and he withstood on the grounds that he did not

have the power. In Michigan, one of his minions from the campaign told him, if we instigate the plan that you have set out in this case to undermine the voting in Michigan, there could be riots. And do you know what he said? Let them riot. Do it. He was all in for violence from the jump. And then you see what happens is Pence goes into him on several occasions and says, we fought the good fight. We lost. We need, look at what you've done for the Republican Party. And he pressured him and he told them, I'm going to come out against you publicly unless you do what I want you to do. Mike Pence continued to tell him, I don't have the authority

to do that. And so that's exactly what he did. And what I found to be the most damning part of this entire statement of the case is that they have conclusive proof that during the insurrection, Donald Trump is watching Fox News. He's on Twitter. He's texting. He's on the phone. And one of his aides comes in and says they have had to move the vice president to a secure location because his life is in danger. And Donald Trump says, so what? He did not give a shit about what was going on at the Capitol. He only cared about power. He didn't care if law enforcement officers were attacked. He didn't care if people took a shit in the Capitol.

What he wanted was to remain in power. And his tactics became ever more desperate as the days went on. Clearly, he did not care about what the law was. And so I would like for Kylie to play next what Fox News said about this criminal statement of facts. On a busy news day and we're trying to get to the bottom of it. Prosecutors right now are offering a redacted version of Special Counsel Jack Smith's filing. That had to be made public today. It was in this newly unsealed court paper. We're learning that former President Trump resorted to crimes that have been to cling to power after the 2020 election. We don't know much more than that. A lot

of this stuff was going to be coming out anyway. We're going to be getting the latest on that and a legal eagle to look at what is being revealed here and whether it's giving us any information on anything we don't know. The timing of this, of course, a little more than about five weeks before the general election. The right is up in arms about the timing and the release of this information, saying it's election interference. Election interference was in 2020 when Donald Trump tried to undermine democracy and put violence to maintain political power. That's election interference. He went to the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court sat on it for nine months.

They said he had limited immunity and that the special prosecutor was required to explain whether his actions were public or private. And that's exactly what they've done. And he has fought tooth and nail to keep these facts from the public because he knows these facts show that he doesn't give a shit about democracy and he only cares about himself. I just am reminded that the January 6th hearings, because a lot of this stuff was the case of the Congress. Let me start that over. I'm just reminded of the January 6th hearings. And a lot of this stuff was played out on national television in those congressional hearings led by Liz Cheney and others. And I think we've all known anybody who watched January 6th, what he was trying to do. We all knew that they were going to claim they were going to take advantage of what the optics

were a red mirage based on counting of absentee ballots by mail. And, you know, those of us that follow politics closely knew that he was going to do all of this. I think what I'm still curious about in there is, is he involved in getting people to the Capitol on January 6th? And is there language that you've read that he wants them to go in and do a hostile takeover of Congress. It stops short of saying that he himself wanted violence, but it says that he was extremely aware that they were violent and riled up and he intended to rile them up even more. And that it was planned as of December 20th in a meeting that his legal options were through. And he wanted to bring people there specifically to pressure Congress and Mike Pence not to certify the election.

And he wanted to do it in large crowds. Extrapolate that from there are going to be riots if we do this in Michigan, to now we put him on the Capitol. I don't think there's any way he can defend that he did not expect and desire violence to stay in power. I think what's so terrifying about this is he will make sure if he wins this upcoming race on November 5th, that he's never put in a position where he has guardrails that protect the rule of law. Because what's so troubling about all of this for me is the lack of accountability to date. He should have been impeached for this. And again, Mitch McConnell always delivers at being an abject failure for the American public. And you have some senator from a

not very populated state, Kentucky, that holds all of this power. And if he would lead the charge, we are going to impeach him. We have to wash our hands of him. We have to be done. We could have a more sane race right now. We could turn the page and actually talk about policy. But instead, we have a megalomaniac who is completely unhinged nonstop on true social, Twitter, his rallies. I mean, it's just it's insane. And you have tens of millions of people that say they're going to vote for him. And I am mystified. I can watch 30 seconds of his rally and think Grandpa shouldn't be in charge of anything. Vance is there for a reason, because he will do what Mike Pence wouldn't do. But even more nefarious than that, J.D. Vance is 40. Donald Trump is a rapidly aging 78-year-old, and he's not in that great a shape. You can tell that he's having many strokes or mental decline as he gives his speeches. And so I think and this is just conjecture on my part, but there are far more nefarious actors with some particular oligarchs and the Heritage Foundation with Project 2025 that are trotting out Mr. Eyeliner, J.D. Vance himself to come in and take this over.

And he's slick. He is a slick operator. And I think he's just far more nefarious. And they know that he doesn't have the pull to win a general election. So they have him under Trump. But here's a guy, everything that we all do, we're held accountable for. If you play, I play tennis all the time. If I lose a match or if I lose a pickleball match, I have to go up to my opponents and say, good game. It's just a part of competing. Donald Trump is incapable of doing that.

Here are some of his responses. Of course, he's in a death spiral on True Social with all of this coming out. And so he goes on True Social. I didn't rig the 2020 election. They did. Why? Well, and it's just how sophomoric. Yes.

How petulant. Yes. And then he says in cap lock for 60 days prior to an election, the Department of Injustice is supposed to do absolutely nothing that would taint or interfere with the case. They disobeyed their own rule in favor of complete and total election interference. I did nothing wrong. They did. The case is a scam, just like all of the others, including the documents case, which was dismissed. The fact that you have a embarrassing percentage of the Supreme Court that are supposed to be for the rule of law, the fact that you have a major political party that says we are for the rule of law. We are for law and order. And you have this criminal and not even a good one. No, not good one. He's not even a good criminal. He's not even good at being a criminal. That's what an abject failure he is. But you have all of these enablers surrounding him within the government, within his own political party, and within the American public, and within the right-wing media propaganda machine.

This is completely election worthy. This is at the heart of what the problem has been in this country ever since he came down that escalator, is a man that believes the rules don't apply to him. And everything that he says, every accusation is a confession. This is third world stuff. The, you know, calling all of these secretaries of states like a nut, asking them to break the law so that he can win.

This is what you watch and you hear about, you know, countries that don't respect the rule of law do. America is far from perfect, far from, but we have to have the peaceful transfer of power. And one of the biggest gaslighters on the planet right now is eyeliner wearing J.D. Vance, who trots out on the debate stage and says, Donald Trump engaged in a peaceful transfer of power. He packed up his toys and tucked and rolled out of the White House like the biggest titty baby I've ever seen. Hillary Clinton was devastated that she lost. Devastated.

And she was there when Donald Trump got inaugurated. And I'm sure it was horrible. But she said there, Donald Trump's not a big boy enough to do that. He will never be a big boy. And I just guess the mystery is all of these people that now, I guess they want to live in a dictatorship, which is just wild. No, I think they do. I think they have been primed that he alone can fix it because that's what cult leaders do. They say they're the only ones that can fix their problems. But if you read

this indictment and you look at the people surrounding him and what they say, it is obvious, clear as the nose on my face. The only thing Donald Trump cares about is power and Donald Trump. All right. We're going to keep covering this with America's Greatest Legal Mind. Subscribe, like, and we will see you guys tomorrow.