Special counsel Jack Smith stated that there was enough evidence to convict former President Donald Trump for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election results. Smith's report, released by the Justice Department, asserts that Trump would have faced conviction if he hadn't won the 2024 presidential election. The report details Trump's alleged actions, including pressuring state officials, attempting to assemble alternate electors, and encouraging supporters to protest against the election results. Smith's investigation concluded that Trump's persistent spread of false claims about the election fueled his pressure campaign and contributed to the January 6th Capitol attack.
Special counsel Jack Smith said he believed there was sufficient evidence to convict Trump over his attempts to overturn the 2020 election result.Special counsel Jack Smith said he believed there was sufficient evidence to convict Trump over his attempts to overturn the 2020 election result.
“The department’s view that the constitution prohibits the continued indictment and prosecution of a president is categorical and does not turn on the gravity of the crimes charged, the strength of the government’s proof or the merits of the prosecution, which the office stands fully behind,” Smith writes.
Volume one of Smith’s report meticulously outlines Trump’s alleged actions, including his efforts to pressure state officials, assemble alternate electors and encourage supporters to protest against the election results. Much of the evidence cited in the report has been made public previously. But it includes some new details, such as that prosecutors considered charging Trump with inciting the January 6 attack on the Capitol under a US law known as the Insurrection Act.
Smith’s office determined that charges may have been justified against some co-conspirators accused of helping Trump carry out the plan, but the report said prosecutors reached no final conclusions. Several of Trump’s former lawyers had previously been identified as co-conspirators referenced in the indictment.
Smith writes: “My office had one north star: to follow the facts and law wherever they led. Nothing more and nothing less. To all who know me well, the claim from Mr Trump that my decisions as a prosecutor were influenced or directed by the Biden administration or other political actors is, in a word, laughable.”
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