Trump and Jan. 6: 5 takeaways from Jack Smith's final report

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

71% : "Two hours after rioters entered the Capitol, Trump released a video message finally asking them to leave while still claiming the election was stolen and telling the rioters "we love you, you're very special."
57% : Since then, Trump has continued to support the Jan, 6 rioters, calling them "patriots" and "hostages," calling the insurrection a day of love, and vowing to pardon some or all of them once he is again president.
56% : "Trump also publicly pressured Pence, telling crowds at a rally in Georgia, "I hope Mike Pence comes through for us, I have to tell you.
52% : Trump tweeted twice over the next hour or so, urging supporters to "stay peaceful" and saying "WE are the Party of Law & Order.
48% : After advisors told him early returns would likely favor him and mail-in ballots would likely favor Biden -- which is what happened -- Trump said he would just declare victory before all the ballots were counted, the report said.
46% : But Smith alleges that Trump made plans to sow distrust of election results and claim victory well before the actual election.
45% : Pence resisted weeks of pressure from Trump to use his position as president of the Senate to change the legitimate election results.
45% : When Trump was told this, he replied "So what?"
42% : After changing the votes didn't work, Trump and his co-conspirators hatched a plan to organize the people who would have been his state electors had he won and "cause them to sign and send to Washington false certifications claiming to be the legitimate electors," the report said.
41% : Of course, if he doesn't come through, I won't like him quite as much."The next day, on Jan. 5, after Pence again declined to cooperate during a private conversation, Trump issued a false statement saying, "The Vice President and I are in total agreement that the Vice President has the power to act," Smith said.
40% : The filing points out instances where Trump himself called election fraud claims suggested by some of his allies unbelievable, including a claim from "Co-Conspirator 3" (believed to be lawyer Sidney Powell) about voting machines "that Mr. Trump privately acknowledged sounded 'crazy' before he publicly amplified them."During the vote count, members of Trump's campaign tried to sow "chaos" by challenging counts in different regions and provoking confrontations, which were then used to claim that observers were not given proper access to the vote counting, Smith said.
39% : "However strong the proof that he incited or gave aid and comfort to those who attacked the Capitol, application of those theories of liability would also have been a first," he said.Smith also chose not to charge Trump with conspiracy with militia groups to impede or injure an officer of the U.S. because he did not have evidence that the co-conspirators "specifically agreed to threaten force or intimidation against federal officers.
37% : Early Tuesday morning, six days before Donald Trump will once again take the office of President of the United States, former Special Counsel Jack Smith's final report on the criminal acts the president-elect allegedly committed to try and stay in power after losing the 2020 election has been released, despite heavy opposition from Trump and his lawyers.
37% : The charges were adjusted after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that "official" acts taken by a president are protected and then dropped once Trump was re-elected.
36% : Trump repeated his false claims about dead and non-citizen voters and vote dumps, Smith said, and also told the crowd, which he had told advisors the night before was "angry," that the election had been stolen, the country would no longer exist if the election was allowed to stand, and that the nonexistent "fraud" allowed them to"go by very different rules.
34% : While much of the information in the report was revealed during the investigation by the bipartisan January 6 Committee, Smith's report details the evidence and what the prosecution's case would have been against Trump in the most sweeping look at his involvement yet.
34% : Trump watched the riot on TV and through Twitter, the report said, and resisted requests from his advisors to try calming his supporters down.
33% : The plan was presented to the would-be electors as a contingency ready to go in case Trump won the ongoing election litigation, Smith said.
30% : Last October, a White House staffer reportedly heard Trump tell family members that "it doesn't matter if you won or lost the election.
29% : The report takes pains to point out that Trump was told, repeatedly, by staffers, state officials and his own vice president that he had lost.
29% : "Smith says in the report that he considered, but opted against, charging Trump with the Insurrection Act after concluding there were "reasonable arguments that it might apply.
28% : Trump was quick to slam Smith, who resigned from the Justice Department Friday, and the report Tuesday morning.
28% : "In each case, state officials told Trump there was no basis for changing results or they asked for evidence to the contrary, which was not provided, Smith said.
28% : Remember this day forever!"The report quoted several Jan. 6 defendants who blamed Trump for their presence at the Capitol and their belief that action was needed to save the country.
27% : Trump faced federal charges that he tried to steal the election won by President Joe Biden and obstruct Congress from counting Electoral College votes on Jan. 6, 2021, and that he unlawfully retained classified documents after leaving the White House.
27% : "Trump targeted Republican state officials, Smith said, urging them to ignore the vote counts and change the results.
25% : Trump was also unhappy with the Justice Department, which had reviewed the crimes of election fraud and found no support for any of them.
25% : "As it is, Trump will enter the White House as the first U.S. president in history to be impeached twice, and the first president to be convicted of a felony after he was found guilty of 34 counts of falsifying business records to cover up hush money payments to an adult movie actor.
23% : In 2021, the House impeached Trump for inciting an "insurrection," although the Senate acquitted him with a 57-43 vote for conviction, short of the two-thirds majority required.
23% : That included calls to the Speaker of the Arizona House of Representatives and the Arizona governor, state legislators in Michigan, the chairman of the Pennsylvania Republican Party, and, famously, Georgia's Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, whom he pressured to "find 11,780 votes" -- Biden's margin of error in the state -- in what Trump has since repeatedly referred to as a "perfect phone call.
19% : However, Smith stressed that the charges against Trump were not dropped because he was innocent of the charges, as Trump has repeatedly claimed, but in accordance with longstanding Department of Justice policy against prosecuting a sitting president.
18% : "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' based on information that the Unselect Committee of Political Hacks and Thugs ILLEGALLY DESTROYED AND DELETED, because it showed how totally innocent I was, and how completely guilty Nancy Pelosi, and others, were," Trump posted on his social media site, Truth Social.
18% : The crowd of Trump supporters that gathered near the Capitol on Jan. 6 as Congress was certifying the election results had already been fired up with claims of election fraud.
18% : About 10 minutes after the Capitol was breached, Trump tweeted "Mike Pence didn't have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our Country and our Constitution, giving States a chance to certify a corrected set of facts, not the fraudulent or inaccurate ones which they were asked to previously certify.
17% : According to the report, Trump told him "hundreds of thousands" of people would "hate his guts" and think he was "stupid," and that Mr. Pence was "too honest.
15% : "After Trump told the crowd, "If you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore," thousands of his supporters marched to the Capitol building, breaking through barriers, violently attacking Capitol police and waving Trump signs and flags as they broke through windows and doors.

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