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    Special counsel reports mark end of investigations

    The special counsel prosecutors investigating President-elect Trump and Hunter Biden released final reports of their investigations Tuesday, potentially bringing an end to a political era that saw the rise of the once-rarely used special counsel designation.

     

    •  Neither Trump nor Hunter Biden will be punished, despite the special counsel investigators concluding that both men engaged in illegal activities.

    •  Trump is protected by the office of the presidency, and Hunter Biden was pardoned by his father, President Biden, in December.

    TRUMP'S CASE:

    Special counsel Jack Smith produced a 137-page report into his investigation of Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

     

    Smith concluded that he would have successfully prosecuted Trump, if not for his election victory in 2024.

     

    “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.

     

    Read Smith’s full report here.

     

    Smith’s report on his investigation into Trump’s alleged mishandling of classified documents remains under wraps for now, but it could become public when the cases against two of Trump’s confidantes conclude.

    HUNTER BIDEN'S CASE:

    Special counsel David Weiss released his report into the multiyear investigation into Hunter Biden, who was facing tax and gun charges in two states.

     

    When President Biden pardoned his son, he blasted the investigation as a politically motivated “miscarriage of justice” that had been infected by “raw politics.”

     

    Weiss ripped that assertion in his report.

    “I prosecuted the two cases against Mr. Biden because he broke the law,” Weiss wrote.

     

    “Other presidents have pardoned family members, but in doing so, none have taken the occasion as an opportunity to malign the public servants at the Department of Justice based solely on false accusations,” he added.

     

    Read Weiss’s full report here.

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