Jack Smith, the special counsel who indicted former President Donald Trump on charges related to attempting to overturn the 2020 election, stated in his final report that the evidence was strong enough to secure a conviction had Trump not won the 2024 election. Smith emphasized that the Justice Department's policy prohibiting the indictment and prosecution of a sitting president prevented him from continuing the case. The report, released in part to Congress, details the extensive evidence gathered against Trump.
Jack Smith, the special counsel who indicted President-elect Donald Trump on charges of seeking to cling to power after losing the 2020 election, said in a final report released on Tuesday that he believed the evidence was sufficient to convict Trump in a trial if his success in the 2024 election had not made it impossible for the prosecution to continue.
He continued: “Indeed, but for Mr Trump’s election and imminent return to the presidency, the office assessed that the admissible evidence was sufficient to obtain and sustain a conviction at trial.” The partial release came only a day after the judge in Florida who oversaw Trump’s other federal case – the one accusing him of mishandling classified documents – issued a ruling allowing a portion of the material to be made public. But the judge, Aileen Cannon, who was appointed by Trump himself, also barred the Justice Department from immediately releasing – even to Congress – a second volume of the report concerning the documents case.
In August 2023, Smith charged Trump in the US District Court in Washington with three intersecting conspiracy counts accusing him of plotting to overturn his loss in the 2020 election. Smith also filed a separate indictment in Florida, charging Trump with illegally holding on to classified documents after he left office and conspiring with two co-defendants to obstruct the government’s repeated effort to retrieve them.
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