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Jack Smith's 137-Page Report Released Early Morning: Trump Would Have Been Convicted for Election Interference Without Election Victory

Jan 14, 2025, 06:44 AM

Special Counsel Jack Smith's final report asserts that Donald Trump would have been convicted for attempting to obstruct the 2020 election results if he had not been elected president in November. The report, released early Tuesday morning, indicates that the Justice Department believed it had sufficient admissible evidence to secure and sustain a conviction at trial. However, Trump's election victory and his imminent return to the presidency made it constitutionally impossible to continue the prosecution, according to the report. The document, a 137-page volume, was delivered to Congress just after midnight, representing half of Smith's overall final report, with the other half concerning a classified documents case remaining confidential. Smith resigned as special counsel last week, but his report serves as a detailed account of the evidence against Trump in the election interference case.