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Special Counsel Jack Smith delivered his final report about the January 6 insurrection.
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The report is his final word on the 2020 election interference case.
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Smith concluded by saying that Trump would have been convicted had he not won the 2024 election.
Special counsel Jack Smith just delivered his final report on the January 6 insurrection.
The 137-page document, sent by the Justice Department to Congress on January 7 and made public early Tuesday, summarized years of Smith’s investigation into the 2020 election interference case involving President-elect Donald Trump.
The report concluded that Trump would have been convicted in the case if he had not been elected president in 2024.
“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,” Smith wrote in the last line of the report.
In the report, Smith wrote that evidence showed Trump had disrupted a democratic process that had “operated in a peaceful and orderly manner for more than 130 years.”
Trump wrote an early Tuesday post on Truth Social responding to Smith’s report, calling the prosecutor “desperate” and “a lamebrain prosecutor who was unable to get his case tried before the Election.”
In November, shortly after Trump’s election victory, Smith asked federal judges for permission to drop the case against Trump, saying it would run counter to the long-standing DOJ policy against prosecuting a sitting president.
Read the full report here:
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