Donald Trump Would Be Convicted of Defrauding U.S. in 2020 Election if He Weren't President-Elect, DOJ Asserts

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

44% : "Smith said that he stood "fully" behind his decision to prosecute Trump in the report, adding, "to have done otherwise on the facts developed during our work would have been to shirk my duties as a prosecutor and a public servant.
42% : "The report also claimed that Trump worked with others to "overturn the election results and perpetuate himself in office" and even inspired his supporters to "commit acts of physical violence" on Jan. 6, 2021, in order "to obstruct the congressional certification of the presidential election and then leverage rioters' violence to further delay it.
33% : Trump was indicted in both cases in 2023, but a series of delay tactics prevented him from going on trial before the 2024 presidential election.
30% : The report -- which was compiled by special counsel Jack Smith -- claims that the Justice Department had enough evidence to convict Trump of election interference and would have moved forward with prosecuting him if he had not won the 2024 election.
27% : "In the report, Smith alleged that Trump perpetuated "false" claims that "dead, non-resident, non-citizen, or otherwise ineligible voters" had cast ballots against him and that voting machines changed people's votes against him, despite high ranking officials in his administration telling him directly "that there was no evidence to support his claims.
26% : After Trump was elected president in November, Smith dropped the cases against him entirely.
25% : "As special counsel, Smith was tasked with overseeing exhaustive federal investigations into Trump, which resulted in two separate criminal cases.
18% : Trump fired back after the release of the report on his social media platform Truth Social, writing, "Jack is a lamebrain prosecutor who was unable to get his case tried before the Election, which I won in a landslide.
18% : He then resigned from the Justice Department on Friday, Jan. 10, to avoid being fired by Trump after Inauguration Day.
17% : The Justice Department's final report about the election subversion case against Donald Trump was released on Tuesday, Jan. 14, revealing new details about how the 45th president allegedly tried clinging to power after losing reelection in 2020.
12% : The more than 137-page report claimed that Trump "resorted to a series of criminal efforts to retain power" after he had lost the 2020 election to Joe Biden.
11% : Though Trump ultimately evaded his federal criminal charges, outgoing Attorney General Merrick Garland recently asserted that the public has a right to know what was in Smith's report about Trump.

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