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Smith’s latest filing is a response to that ruling and a detailed articulation of why Trump’s actions to subvert the 2020 election were taken not in his official capacity as president, but in his private capacity as a losing political candidate — and therefore not something for which he enjoys immunity.

“The farther you get into language and articulation, the father you get from emotion. You have to get back into song and poetry,” he told The Times in 2002.

But the history of those cases is not just the articulation of a more inclusive vision regarding whose rights should be protected.

The aggressive and often baseless filings by Mr. Trump’s lawyers amounted to a multipronged assault on the underpinnings of the classified documents case and were the sharpest articulation yet of an argument the former president has often raised on the campaign trail: that law enforcement has been weaponized against him in a series of overreaching and politically driven witch hunts.

In these early, seated musical run-throughs, before sets and blocking enter the picture and conductors and directors rule, he dives deep into the fine points of diction, articulation, rhythm and balances, seeking unity among dozens of people.