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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Alex Woodward

Can Jack Smith save Trump’s election interference case?

President-elect Donald Trump is accused of conspiring with his allies to pressure state officials, election workers and his own vice president to overturn the results of an election he lost, and then failing to stop a mob of his supporters from storming the halls of Congress to do it by force.

But the sprawling criminal case against Trump’s efforts to subvert the 2020 presidential election — thousands of pages of court filings and a body of evidence tracing his “increasingly desperate efforts” to cling to power — could soon come to a crashing halt.

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