Trump not entitled to immunity for efforts to overturn 2020 election, US special counsel says

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Just over a month before the 2024 presidential election, the special counsel overseeing Donald Trump's election interference trial revealed a sweeping 165-page motion alleging the former US president is not entitled to presidential immunity for his role in attempting to overturn the results of the 2020 election, saying his "Scheme was fundamentally a private one".

Donald Trump launched a "Private criminal effort" to subvert the 2020 US election and should not be shielded by presidential immunity, Special Counsel Jack Smith said in a court filing unsealed on Wednesday.

Smith, in a 165-page motion arguing for the historic case against Trump to move forward, also provided new evidence of the former president's efforts to overturn the results of the election won by Democrat Joe Biden.

"When all else had failed," the special counsel said, Trump directed an "Angry crowd" of supporters to the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, to disrupt the certification.

The special counsel said a former White House staffer would testify at trial that he heard Trump tell family members after the vote that "It doesn't matter if you won or lost the election. You still have to fight like hell."

Trump is accused of conspiracy to defraud the United States and conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding - the session of Congress that was violently attacked by Trump supporters.

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