President-elect Donald Trump could have been convicted at trial over the 2020 election interference case if he had not won the most recent election, Special Counsel Jack Smith has said.
Smith found Trump engaged in an unprecedented criminal effort to overturn his 2020 election defeat, according to a report released by the Department of Justice on Tuesday.
“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 report said.
Smith, who resigned in the wake of Trump’s election victory in November, also found charges could be justified against Trump’s co-conspirators but reached no final conclusions, according to the report.
He said his team “stood up for the rule of law” as it investigated Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
“While we were not able to bring the cases we charged to trial, I believe the fact that our team stood up for the rule of law matters,” Smith wrote in a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland attached to the report.
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Read More“I believe the example our team set for others to fight for justice without regard for the personal costs matters.”
The report also said: “The throughline of all of Mr Trump’s criminal efforts was deceit — knowingly false claims of election fraud — and the evidence shows that Mr Trump used these lies as a weapon to defeat a federal government function foundational to the United States’ democratic process,” the report states.
Trump had been indicted in August 2023 on charges of working to overturn the election, but the case was delayed by appeals and later by a Supreme Court ruling that held for the first time that former presidents enjoy sweeping immunity from criminal prosecution for official acts.
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