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There’s No Such Thing as an October Surprise

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Special Counsel Jack Smith ’s 165 -page motion, unsealed yesterday , in the federal case against Donald Trump for subverting the 2020 presidential election.

Peter Bergen : The idea of an “ October surprise,” a late-breaking story that shifts the race, dates to the Ronald Reagan era and has been a durable one.

Trump 's flippant “So what?” response to the news that Vice President Mike Pence had been evacuated from the Capitol because of a threat to his life, Bergen says.

If this is how Trump treats a close ally, he leaves little doubt about how he’d treat anyone else. But to anyone who’s been paying attention these past several years , none of this information is at all surprising, and it won’t be remembered as an October surprise..