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Politics
Igor Derysh

Smith pierces Trump's "inner circle"

Special counsel Jack Smith's team has asked witnesses about a call on which former President Donald Trump pressured former Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey to overturn his 2020 election loss and has shown an interest in Trump's "efforts to conscript" former Vice President Mike Pence into helping him, according to The Washington Post.

Trump in late 2020 urged Ducey to find enough fraudulent votes to overturn his narrow loss in the state, three sources told the Post, echoing his call to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to "find" the necessary votes to also reverse his loss in that state.

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