Smith's report provides new details about election-interference charges against Trump, says he believes election victory saved him from conviction.
Special counsel Jack Smith said that President-elect Donald Trump would have been convicted in his election interference case if he had not won the 2024 presidential
President-elect Donald Trump unleashed on “deranged” Special Counsel Jack Smith in a furious early morning post on TruthSocial after the Department of Justice released a damning report alleging the he attempted to criminally overturn the 2020 election.
President-elect Trump hammered Special Counsel Jack Smith following the prosecutor’s public release of his final report in the election subversion case, calling him a “lamebrain prosecutor.”
Smith pointed to the Justice Department’s view that “the Constitution prohibits the continued indictment and prosecution of a president,” a position he said is “categorical and does not turn on the gravity of the crimes charged, the strength of the government’s proof, or the merits of the prosecution, which the office stands fully behind.”
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Special counsel Jack Smith sought to prosecute Trump for election interference and retaining classified documents while Trump denied wrongdoing
Special counsel Jack Smith asserts in his report that Trump never believed the 2020 election was fraudulent and made “knowingly false claims."
Donald Trump targeted Jack Smith in a series of posts on his Truth Social following revelation of 2020 election findings.
The world has now been able to read Special Counsel Jack Smith’s final report regarding ... and how completely guilty Nancy Pelosi, and others, were,” Trump posted in early Tuesday morning.
Donald Trump has hit out at Jack Smith in an angry 1am rant after the special counsel published his report, concluding the president-elect tried to criminally overturn the 2020 election. At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground. Your donation allows us to keep sending journalists to speak to both sides of the story.