If he hadn’t been re-elected, specific lawyers Jack Smith believed that US President-elect Donald Trump could have been found guilty for trying to reverse the 2020 election. He details the research and defends his decision to file charges in a statement released on Tuesday.
Smith argued that Trump “knowingly falsely claimed election scam” to obstruct the peaceful transfer of power. The document states that” the throughline of all of Mr. Trump’s legal work was betrayal- intentionally false claims of election scam,” and that Mr. Trump allegedly used these lays as a means to undermine a fundamental role in the American democracy.
Trump’s re-election prevented the prosecutors from proceeding according to Department of Justice plan, the document claimed. ” The Department’s see that the Constitution prohibits the continued prosecution and prosecution of a President is unambiguous and does not turn on the weight of the acts charged, the strength of the President’s evidence, or the qualities of the trial, which the Office stands completely behind. Indeed, but for Mr. Trump’s election and immediate return to the Presidency, the Office assessed that the accepted facts was sufficient to obtain and maintain a conviction at trial”, it stated.
During the Congressional certification of President Joe Biden’s victory, which was obstructed by Trump supporters on January 6, 2021, Trump was accused of conspiring to defraud the United States and obstructing an official proceeding.
The report also addressed challenges faced during the investigation, including Trump’s use of executive privilege and social media to influence witnesses. Smith wrote,” Mr. Trump’s resort to intimidation and harassment during the investigation was not new, as demonstrated by his actions during the charged conspiracies”. He added that as his team investigated Trump, they” stood up for the rule of law.”
Following the report’s late-night publication, Trump responded on Truth Social, criticising Smith as “deranged”. He claimed that” Deranged Jack Smith was unable to successfully prosecute the Political Opponent of his” boss,” Crooked Joe Biden, so he ends up writing yet another” Report because it demonstrated how completely innocent I was and how completely guilty Nancy Pelosi, and others, were. Before the Election, which I won with a landslide, Jack is a lamebrain prosecutor who was unable to get his case tried. THE VOTERS HAVE SPOKEN!! “!
” To show you how desperate Deranged Jack Smith is, he released his Fake findings at 1: 00 A. M. in the morning”, Trump wrote in a subsequent post.
Just before Trump’s scheduled January 20th, the report was made public. A separate volume at Mar-a-Lago that contains classified documents is still unannounced.
According to a court filing released on Saturday, his departure from his position as special counsel for the US Department of Justice was announced. Smith had been charged with looking into Donald Trump’s alleged attempts to contest the outcome of the 2020 election.
Smith had brought charges against Trump during his time in office, including those relating to a conspiracy to defraud the United States and obstructing an official proceeding. However, following Trump’s victory in the November presidential election, Smith withdrew all cases against him.
