Garland publicly releases special counsel report on Trump and 2020 election subversion

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : The release marks the special counsel's final official word on his investigation into January 6, 2021, and the actions by Trump and his associates before then to interfere with the peaceful transfer of power.
40% : But the special counsel's office continued to investigate the unindicted co-conspirators after charging Trump, Smith said in his report.
32% : By Tierney Sneed, Marshall Cohen, Holmes Lybrand and Evan Perez, CNN(CNN) -- Attorney General Merrick Garland has publicly released special counsel Jack Smith's report on his investigation into Donald Trump and efforts to overturn the 2020 election, detailing the president-elect's "criminal efforts to retain power.
32% : The special counsel dropped the case against Trump altogether after voters in November decided to return him to the White House.
31% : "The more than 130-page report, which was submitted to Congress and released early Tuesday after a court hold blocking its release expired at midnight, spells out in extensive -- if largely already known -- detail how Trump tried to overturn the 2020 election.
30% : It essentially mirrors the landmark federal election subversion indictment that Smith brought against Trump in 2023, retooled in 2024 after the Supreme Court's immunity ruling, and ultimately withdrew after Trump's victory in the November election.
30% : "Until Mr. Trump obstructed it, this democratic process had operated in a peaceful and orderly manner for more than 130 years," Smith wrote, referring to Congress' certification of the Electoral College results, under the Electoral Count Act of 1887.Smith brought four charges against Trump in the 2020 election probe.
25% : Smith's team states in no uncertain terms that they believed Trump criminally attempted to subvert the will of the people and overturn the election results.
20% : Before dropping the case against Trump, the office had begun a discussion over whether potential charges against additional co-conspirators would be brought in Trump's case or in a separate case.

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