Former President Donald Trump may have just handed special counsel Jack Smith a crucial piece of evidence in an ongoing criminal case, according to a new legal analysis. Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, in a North Carolina campaign speech made a bold new claim about his defeat in the 2020 election won by President Joe Biden: that it happened. “They beat us by a little whisker,” Trump said. “He beat us from the basement.” Want more breaking political news? Click for the latest headlines at Raw Story. The New Republic’s Edith Olmsted professed herself shocked that Trump would make a s…