Do they have him?

Donald Trump is tied to illegal plotting to overturn the 2020 presidential election by a "direct line" of evidence, Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson told MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace on Thursday's edition of "Deadline: White House."

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We believe it. Can they prove it?

"Certainly the evidence developed by the Select Committee leaves nothing to the imagination: this was a Trump-directed coup," said Wallace, after playing clips of Trump allies crediting him with being behind the movement to overturn the election. "The legal argument was fleshed out by John Eastman. They knew it violated the Electoral Count Act. Do you, from where you're sitting, have any doubt that the evidence, if Jack Smith wishes to pursue it, will take this plot all the way to Trump's doorstep?"

"I think the evidence certainly shows a direct line between the former president, the phone calls, the pressure that he himself exerted on the lawmakers and the State of Michigan, to local county certification boards. So the line is there," said Benson.

Will a jury see it?

Benson added, "we have to remember it's not the only line, that there were a lot of co-conspirators, for lack of a better word, in my opinion. And all of it manifested itself in a multifaceted national, coordinated, illegal effort to interfere with the will of the voters and overturn it."

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My confidence is that the Justice Department, as well as local and state prosecutors, are collectively casting a broad net, looking all of these things, with a goal not just of seeking justice, but ensuring that these don't escalate in the future or reoccur."

Just do it quickly.

If Trump convinces judges (up to and including Supreme Court justices) that anyone campaigning for president can't be prosecuted, he'll be running for president in every election until he dies. Of course, he may be anyway.