‘Make Them Riot’: Trump Campaign Staffer Tried to ‘Sow Confusion’ During 2020 Vote Count, Per DOJ Filing

CNN dug through the 165-page motion recently filed by Special Counsel Jack Smith and unsealed by Judge Tanya Chutkan on Wednesday and revealed numerous shocking new details regarding Donald Trump and his allies scheming to overturn the 2020 election.

CNN anchor Brianna Keilar read from the filing and pulled out one of the more shocking sections. “’Private criminal effort’ is the quote used here in this filing. Let’s bring in former U.S. attorney Harry Litman to talk a little bit about this,” Keilar began, adding:

Something else to read from this filing with someone who’s anonymized here, Harry, talking about how while tabulating votes on November 4th, P-five, person five, a campaign employee, agent, and coconspirator of the defendant, tried to sow confusion when the ongoing vote count at the TFC Center in Detroit, Michigan, looked unfavorable for the defendant, Donald Trump.

There, When a colleague at the TCF Center told person five, quote, ‘We think about your votes heavily in Biden’s favor is right.’ Person five responded, ‘Find a reason it isn’t. Give me options to file litigation even if it is.’ When the colleague suggested that there was about to be unrest reminiscent of the Brooks Brothers riot, a violent effort to stop the vote count in Florida after the 2000 presidential election. Person five responded, ‘Make them riot and do it.’ What do you think about these kinds of details and what this is going to mean in this case?

Litman replied, “They are incendiary. But it’s not just what it means in the case. It’s what it means in the campaign. Trump filed a very strident brief yesterday telling the court, Please don’t release any of this. It will harm me in the election. And Chutkan, without hearing anything further, went ahead and did it.”

“And you have 90 pages here of chapter and verse, as you’re saying, with person five, the race will be on who is who. It may be John Eastman, who was working up there or maybe Ken Chesebro,” added Litman, noting that pundits and observers are working overtime to figure out who the redacted figures are. He continued:

But the big point here, as they’ve laid their case, their cards on the table laid them bare and will be mining it for weeks. And it’s all going to be a problem for Trump, who tried hard to keep it from going forward. That’s the first thing. If I can note one other thing, because I’m just, you know, reading this quickly, as is Caitlin. They give their theory starting on page 94, why Mike Pence should be admissible even though the Supreme Court mentioned the possible immunity there.

They say the the assumption of immunity is rebutted because Pence is basically acting as a vice president excuse me, as a president of the Senate, a legislative role and the executive branch or the president has no role saying who should open votes and who shouldn’t. So that’s their very important argument about Pence, which will now be joined. But the big fact of this today, I think, is that it happened. The genie is out of the bottle.

Watch the clip above via CNN.