Trump Fumes Over Release of New Evidence in Election Interference Case

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During his vice presidential debate against Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) claimed that former President Donald Trump supported the peaceful transfer of power after the 2020 election. Days later, Trump is once again accusing Democrats of “rigging” that election and crying foul over the Justice Department submitting evidence in its election interference case against him — evidence that demonstrates he didn’t have much of a problem with the violence at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

On Wednesday, a sprawling evidentiary brief was unsealed in the DOJ’s prosecution against the former president for attempting to overturn the results of the 2020 election. The filing revealed new details about Trump’s actions in the aftermath of his election loss, and his role in fomenting the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol. 

According to the Justice Department, Trump was alone in the White House dining room on Jan. 6 when he authored his now infamous tweet accusing Vice President Mike Pence of lacking the “courage” to overturn the election on his behalf. The tweet was sent around the same time that Pence was being evacuated from the Capitol as rioters stormed the building.

The DOJ claims that when Trump was informed of his vice president’s situation, and that Trump replied, ​​“So what?”

The brief’s release incensed Trump, who has been attempting to delay all of the legal proceedings against him until after the election. 

“I didn’t rig the 2020 Election, they did!,” Trump wrote on Truth Social shortly after the filing was unsealed. 

In a separate post, Trump claimed that the DOJ had engaged in election interference by submitting the filing just weeks before Election Day...