Hi everyone it's 4 o'clock in New York and unprecedented campaign of deceit. That is how Special Council Jack Smith

sums up the plot to overturn the 2020 presidential election, driven by one man

and one man only, ex president himself in a flurry of filings on

Monday the special counsel pushing back against team Trump's efforts to derail

the trial in his federal election interference case and for the very first time

revealing a key plank of their case against Donald Trump. For months now

questions have swirled about how much Donald Trump's state of mind matters in this case.

Did he actually believe that the election was stolen from him and do prosecutors need to show that the

ex president knew he'd lost the election?

Well, Washington Post is now reporting this. The

Justice Department weighed in on the debate for the first time, saying that what

they need to prove is not that Trump believed the big lie of the election being stolen, but that he

knowingly spread associated lies in a criminal scheme to stay in power.

From the special counsel's filing, quote, just as the president of a company may be guilty of fraud

for using knowingly false statements of facts to defraud investors even if he

subjectively believes that his company will eventually succeed, the defendant may

be guilty of using deceit to obstruct the government function by which the results of the presidential

election are collected and counted and certified even if he provides evidence

that he subjectively believed that the election was rigged.

Prosecutor saying that Trump's words go beyond First Amendment protected speech as Trump's attorney's claim

because Trump peddled specific false claims about voter fraud in order to commit crimes

once again from this remarkable new filing,

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