Jack Smith insists Trump would have been convicted in bombshell report

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : Trump tore into the special counsel during an hour-long press conference at Mar-a-Lago last week. '
52% : That decision was on appeal when Trump won the election in November.
49% : 'A fundamental component of Mr. Trump's conduct underlying the charges in the Election Case was his pattern of using social media - at the time, Twitter - to publicly attack and seek to influence state and federal officials, judges, and election workers who refused to support false claims that the election had been stolen or who otherwise resisted complicity in Mr. Trump's scheme,' he added.Smith also for the first time explained the thought process behind his team's prosecution decisions, writing that his office decided not to charge Trump with incitement in part because of free speech concerns, or with insurrection because he was the sitting president at the time and there was doubt about proceeding to trial with the offense - of which there was no record of having been prosecuted before.
47% : It describes prosecutors' charging decisions in the case that resulted in Trump being indicted for taking a trove of national security documents to Mar-a-Lago.
46% : The comprehensive report, coming just days before Trump is to return to the White House on January 20, focuses fresh attention on his extensive but failed effort to cling to power in 2020.
45% : And some judges and prosecutors say, look, the only way I'm going to get these people off my back is to give victory to them,' said Trump.
39% : Trump called Smith 'a lamebrain prosecutor who was unable to get his case tried before the Election, which I won in a landslide.
39% : Once Trump takes office January 20th, his own Justice Department will get to make determinations on whether the report on the classified documents case ever gets released.
37% : Neither of Smith's cases against Trump reached trial and the president-elect has fiercely maintained his innocence during the 'political' prosecution.
34% : And I don't know her - and never met her until the case - and I don't believe I said even one word to her,' Trump said.
32% : They were able to view the draft report in D.C., and say its first volume 'asserts, without any jury determination, that President Trump and others 'engaged in an unprecedented criminal effort,' was 'the head of the criminal conspiracies,' and harbored a 'criminal design.'
30% : The lawyers blast Smith and his team 'as the inauguration approaches' of efforts to put out a report that is 'not a legitimate use of taxpayer funds,' and accuse him of 'lawfare' - a phrase invoked by Trump himself.
29% : They also include the decision to charge Trump with heading a conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election.
28% : The letter faults Smith for filing 'gratuitous speaking indictments,' holding a 'lawless press conference,' and filing 'extremely serious, and entirely false, allegations' against Trump in the January 6 case and the classified documents case.
27% : They say the 'release of any confidential report prepared by this out-of-control private citizen unconstitutionally posing as a prosecutor would be nothing more than a lawless political stunt, designed to politically harm President Trump and justify the huge sums of taxpayer money Smith unconstitutionally spent on his failed and dismissed cases.'The legal cases against Trump imploded after he won the presidential election , in part due to longstanding DOJ guidelines against charging the president while in office.
26% : Smith, who resigned on Sunday after completing two criminal investigations, wrote to Attorney General Merrick Garland that he believed had Trump stood trial on the charges, he would have been convicted.
25% : The document includes, for the first time, a detailed assessment from Smith about his investigation, as well as a defense by Smith against criticism by Trump and his allies that the investigation was politicized.
24% : Trump has repeatedly called the prosecutions against him 'witch hunts.'
24% : The second volume 'asserts that Trump 'violated multiple federal criminals laws,' with citations up to page 121 - suggestion a lengthy report of beyond 200 pages.
23% : Donald Trump raged against 'lamebrained' special counsel Jack Smith during a 1 am Truth Social rant after the Department of Justice dropped the prosecutor's bombshell report in the dead of night.
21% : Trump-appointed Judge Aileen Cannon dismissed the classified documents case against Trump, accepting his lawyers' argument that Smith's appointment wasn't constitutional.
20% : Smith himself asked that the January 6 case against Trump be withdrawn after he defeated Kamala Harris in the election.
19% : Trump quickly slammed the report in a Truth Social post at about 1:41am. '
19% : They call it the product of a 'bad-faith crusade', and claim Smith lacks the authority to produce it, and that it 'violates fundamental norms regarding the presumption of innocence,' including toward third parties charged alongside Trump.
18% : Trump was charged with willful retention of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago, in a case Cannon dismissed this summer that was on appeal when Trump won the November election.
14% : In a scathing statement issued along with the report, Smith admonished Trump for what he described as excessive lies and deceit to upend the American enterprise.
11% : They accuse him of 'unlawfully' encroaching on the 'Executive authority of the incoming Administration of President Trump to resolve the issues surrounding Smith's Office in accordance with President Trump's commanding national mandate from the voters.'Want more stories like this from the Daily Mail?
9% : Trump lawyers John Lauro and Todd Blanche - who Trump is nominating to a top DOJ role - claimed in a blistering letter to Garland that the draft report is a 'politically-motivated attack.'
7% : Smith stood by his decision to bring charges against Donald Trump in the much-anticipated report and insisted Trump would have been convicted of Conspiracy to Defraud the United States had he not won the election for president.

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