Jack Smith’s filing of Trump’s election interference claim has ties to Pa.

Federal prosecutors have presented the most extensive body of evidence yet that they say proves former President Donald Trump worked with others to overturn the 2020 election.

IN long-awaited brief Unsealed Wednesday, special prosecutor Jack Smith presented his findings in an effort to convince U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan that his election interference case against the former president can proceed despite the Supreme Court’s July ruling on presidential immunity.

Although the names of key players have been redacted in their entirety, the 165-page filing revealed novel details about the efforts Trump and his allies are accused of in Pennsylvania and six other battleground states.

Here are some of the local attractions:

‘Make ’em riot’: Philadelphia agent Mike Roman allegedly incited violence outside Detroit vote counting center

Smith alleged that as votes were being counted in Pennsylvania and across the country, Trump and his allies sought to sow confusion and chaos in places where the tallying took place.

One particularly notable incident cited in the report involved a prominent GOP operative from Philadelphia.

Kensington native Mike Roman, Trump’s 2020 Election Day operations director, cut his teeth in Philadelphia Republican circles before gaining notoriety as a GOP “cheater hunter” and online provocateur. Various investigations have found him to be one of the key figures in organizing seven slates of false Trump electors from battleground states, and he faces charges for his role in Georgia, Arizona and Wisconsin.

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Although Roman’s name was redacted in Smith’s testimony, his description of one of Trump’s co-conspirators detailed the special counsel’s actions, which was previously known about Roman’s involvement in the 2020 campaign.

However, Wednesday’s report revealed one incident from November 4, 2020 that had not been previously reported. The day after the election, Roman kept an eye on the vote count in Detroit, where Trump campaign operatives were dispatched to investigate the validity of a batch of votes for Joe Biden that had just been added to his total.

A friend informed Roman that Biden’s votes appeared to be correct, Smith said.

Roman replied, “Find a reason why it isn’t… Give me the opportunity to file a lawsuit.”

That response, Smith argued, shows that Trump and his allies knew their claims of fraud were baseless and that they instead sought to exploit disinformation and innuendo to win over supporters.

When the agent later told Roman that such claims had drawn raucous crowds of Trump supporters to the vote tabulation center in Detroit and that he feared violence might break out, Roman allegedly didn’t care.

As Smith’s records show, “make them riot,” he said. “Do it!!!”

‘It’s not true’: Gettysburg hearing circus sparks discord within GOP ranks

Many of Pennsylvania’s strangest post-election moments have involved Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani, from his stumbling courtroom appearance in which, without providing any evidence, he tried to convince a judge that a cabal of Democratic officials had conspired to steal the election to his fever dream press conference in front of Four Seasons Total Landscaping in Philadelphia.

However, one notable incident involving Giuliani — the state Senate committee hearing in Gettysburg on November 25, 2020 — received special attention in Smith’s briefing because of the discord it caused behind the scenes.

That day, Giuliani and Trump attorney Jenna Ellis presented her baseless case of a stolen election before a sympathetic panel of Republican state lawmakers led by state Sen. Doug Mastriano. They repeated several already discredited claims, including that the state received more absentee ballots than it sent out.

Justin Riemer, general counsel of the Republican National Committee, watched from afar and publicly tweeted, “This is not true.”

A few days later, he emailed an RNC spokesman, Smith said, saying that Giuliani and Ellis were “laughing out of court” and “misleading millions of people who have wishful thinking that the president will somehow win this case.”

Giuliani later learned of Riemer’s comments, Smith said, and left the RNC’s general counsel a threatening voicemail.

“Call me or I will call your boss and force you to resign,” Giuliani allegedly said. – It will be better for you if you do this.

Riemer was later relieved of his duties as general counsel after Giuliani pressured then-RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel to fire him.

But Riemer wasn’t the only one to object to Giuliani’s claims during the hearing.

In his briefing, Smith quotes an exchange between two other Trump campaign staffers. One of them wrote in an email that Giuliani’s claims about mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania are “simply wrong” and “indefensible.”

“We’ve been saying this for a while,” Trump’s deputy campaign manager Justin Clark allegedly replied. “It’s very frustrating.”

“We couldn’t have found 20 better people?” Fake electors in Pennsylvania

Efforts by Trump and his allies to organize competing slates of imitation electors to purportedly cast electoral votes for seven battleground states are a huge part of Smith’s case against the former president.

And in Pennsylvania, 20 prominent Republicans signed the measure, including former U.S. Republican and gubernatorial candidate Lou Barletta; Allegheny County Councilmember Sam DeMarco; state GOP vice chairwoman Bernadette Comfort; Bucks County Republican Party Chairman Pat Poprik; Republican National Committee member Andy Reilly; Kevin Harley, former spokesman for Gov. Tom Corbett; and Ted Christian, Trump’s top strategist in the state.

But while some “fraudulent voters” from other states have since faced criminal charges, Smith described skepticism among Trump electors in Pennsylvania that could have saved them from the same fate.

According to Smith, they can thank one person above all: Lawrence Tabas, an elections lawyer and chairman of the Pennsylvania Republican Party. Smith claims Tabas informed Trump the day after the 2020 vote that he did not lose Pennsylvania due to fraud.

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When Trump allies tried to organize a slate of “sham electors” in Pennsylvania in December, Roman, Trump’s director of Election Day operations, complained to another Trump ally that Tabas was telling potential recruits if they signed the petition they could face criminal prosecution ” – according to Smith’s documents. .

Giuliani and other Trump campaign operatives held a conference call the next day with potential voters, who requested that a clause be included in the documents they would eventually send to Congress, explaining that they were only presenting themselves as legitimate presidential electors when a court invalidated Pennsylvania’s election results.

Pennsylvania’s fraudulent electors were one of the few lists to include such language – as a precaution, Gov. Josh Shapiro, when he was attorney general, listed it as a factor making their prosecution more hard.

But the Trump campaign was not joyful. While Giuliani was on the December 12 conference call, Roman was texting with Ellis, the Trump campaign lawyer, and objecting to resistance from electors from Pennsylvania.

“Whoever picked that slate should be shot,” Roman allegedly said.

According to Smith, Ellis replied, “Couldn’t we find 20 better people?”