Smith paints a portrait. Willis, a landscape. Special counsel Jack Smith and Fulton County DA Fani Willis issued complementary indictments in the Republican conspiracy to overturn the 2020 presidential election results. Dahlia Lithwick summarizes: There’s one other notable contrast between the two stories that will be unspooled regarding the very similar events that took place after Donald Trump learned he’d lost the election and decided he would win it through organized crime. Smith chose to tell the story of an abstraction, crimes against democracy and the peaceful transfer of power. Willis is telling a concrete and detailed story of crimes against voters and election workers; Black voters in particular, female Black election workers in specific. In effect, Trump is on trial in D.C. for trying to break democracy and, in Fulton County, Georgia, for trying to set aside Black votes. The two stories are deeply connected, but they are also two very distinct acts of violence against elections. Smith reminds us what the country nearly lost, and Willis recalls what Black voters have almost never won. The different emphases mean the stories the two documents tell unspool from different perspectives. Smith’s is more a speaking indictment of a single defendant surrounded by his closest co-conspirators. Willis indicted 19. Hers details the actions the many defendants took, including Trump’s Oval Office cabal, both singly and in concert, in Georgia and elsewhere, in furtherance of the conspiracy to undo Trump’s 2020 loss in Georgia. Here the scattered victims were Georgia voters and…