by Clifford Nichols at The Western Journal
Many conservative patriots are gleeful today based on their belief that Jack Smith’s most recent indictment of President Donald Trump is going to afford the MAGA movement its first real opportunity to litigate all the irregularities of the 2020 election and the events of Jan. 6 in a court of law.
This is the evidence they think will be needed for the president to rebut Smith’s allegations that he is a fraudster because he knew all the time that the 2020 elections were legitimate.
But, before Trump’s supporters pop the proverbial champagne bottle to celebrate, they probably would do well to consider the implications of the following language extracted directly from the first count of Smith’s indictment:
“Donald J. Trump did knowingly … conspire … and agree with co-conspirators … to defraud the United States by using dishonesty, fraud and deceit to impair, obstruct and defeat the lawful federal government function by which the results of the presidential election are collected, counted and certified by the federal government.
“The purpose of the conspiracy was to overturn the legitimate results of the 2020 presidential election by using knowingly false claims of election fraud to obstruct the federal government function by which those results are collected, counted and certified.” (Emphasis added.)
Boiled down to the basics…
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