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One month until voters head to the polls, the Justice Department is caught in a thorny intersection of election-year politics and continuing the work of the nation’s top law enforcement agency – trying to maintain its reputation for impartiality while also continuing to pursue the prosecution of Donald Trump,

Unlike in 2020, when most false claims were thrown out, AI forgeries today are easy to make and could take weeks—or even months—to debunk. By then, the damage will be done. Worse still, the relationship between government officials and social media companies is more fractured than ever.

Plenty of election officials who bought into Donald Trump’s election lies, but Colorado's Tina Peters, who's headed to prison, is a special case.

Donald Trump is the only defendant in the special counsel’s case that charges him with a plot to remain in power after his 2020 loss. But a newly unsealed brief provides fresh details about many other figures.

Donald Trump “laid the groundwork for his crimes” well before Election Day in 2020. He said “the details don’t matter” when told his election fraud claims would fail in court. And his response to learning that then-Vice President Mike Pence was taken to a secure location as rioters stormed the Capitol?

Peters was convicted for giving an individual affiliated with MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, a Trump confidant, access to the election software she used for her county.

Tina Peters, a Republican, was convicted last August on most counts against her in the election interference case. Peters helped breach Mesa County's election computer systems and allowed an unauthorised individual to access voting equipment and election records.

Harris and Trump are still competing for votes in several tossup swing states, according to 538's polling aggregate.

The filing documents the prosecution's evidence against Trump and argues his involvement was not in his official capacity as president.