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The 7

Thursday, October 3, 2024

The 7

The Washington Post

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🗓️ 3 October 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Thursday briefing: Jack Smith’s Trump filing; Israeli strike in Beirut; Helene death toll; sheriff shooting video; and more


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prosecutors laid out explosive new evidence against Donald Trump.

0:08.0

That's where we're starting the seven from the Washington Post.

0:11.0

I'm Hannah Jewel.

0:12.0

It's Thursday, October 3rd. Let's get you caught up with today's 7 stories. A new court filing from Special Counsel Jack Smith offers new details about Trump's behavior during the January 6th 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

0:31.0

The document was unsealed yesterday.

0:34.6

It lays out the evidence Smith's team would like to present in the long-delayed federal criminal

0:39.3

case against Trump connected to the Capitol attack. It describes in more extensive detail

0:44.8

than before how many people including his own campaign officials told Trump

0:49.4

there was no proof the election was stolen and how Trump waged a campaign to overturn the result anyway.

0:56.6

The filing details how Vice President Mike Pence repeatedly tried to encourage Trump to back off

1:02.0

his claims of a stolen election.

1:04.7

It also alleges that after learning security measures were being taken to protect Pence on

1:09.7

January 6th, Trump told an aide, so what?

1:14.0

The new filing was intended to show that Trump can still face trial for attempting to overturn

1:18.9

Joe Biden's electoral victory.

1:21.8

Even though the Supreme Court ruled in July that Trump was immune from prosecution

1:26.0

for official acts. Number two, the Trump campaign is stepping up its baseless attacks on migrants.

1:40.9

At a campaign rally in Milwaukee this week, Donald Trump shared what sounded like a pretty alarming statistic.

1:47.0

He said the Biden Harris administration had allowed more than 13,000 migrants who were convicted murderers to enter the country and that

1:55.2

they're quote on the loose. But that claim is false according to the Post's

2:00.0

fact-chequer. The Biden-Harras administration did not release more than 13,000 murders who have

2:05.9

entered the country over the years. Our fact-checker found that most of these killers are in detention

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