Prosecutors asked permission to file public version of brief with references to testimony from Trump’s closest aides

Donald Trump’s lawyers made a last-ditch effort on Tuesday to limit the amount of evidence that could become public that special counsel prosecutors collected during their criminal investigation into the former US president’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

The prosecutors last week filed under seal a brief, which may be as long as 180 pages, to presiding US district judge Tanya Chutkan that defends the viability of the charges against Trump even after the US supreme court’s presidential immunity ruling.

Simultaneously, the prosecutors asked the judge to allow them to file a public version of the secret brief with quotations and references to grand jury testimony from some of Trump’s closest aides, such as his former chief of staff, and his former vice-president, Mike Pence.

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    He doesn’t care. Even with a felony conviction, he still thinks he didn’t do anything wrong.

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      Oh, no, he definitely knows he did something wrong. He just knows that if he pushes hard enough, there’s a chance he can get away with it. Trump is a psychopath who knows that rules are only as powerful as their enforcement, and he’s been weaseling his way by them his whole life.

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      with a felony conviction,

      The validity of the court is directly related to how they fulfill his goals. In a society based on loyalty first, that’s his most important criteria.

      Ergo, to him, the court and all its rulings are wrong, because they didn’t pass the ethics test of Doing What Trump Wants.