Jack Smith report has some things Donald Trump will like

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

43% : "[B]ut for Mr. Trump's election and imminent return to the Presidency, the Office assessed that the admissible evidence was sufficient to obtain and sustain a conviction at trial," the report says.Smith added that he believed Trump criminally attempted to subvert the will of the people while trying to overturn the 2020 election results.
43% : And ultimately the American people did not care that Trump had been charged in these cases, and Trump received more support than he received before the prosecutions.
34% : He anticipated a potential defense and chose not to charge Trump with insurrection.
34% : But because of Smith's delay and failure to anticipate the real possibility that Trump would be reelected, Smith was never able to get the cases anywhere near trial.
30% : Trump had sought to block the release of the report, with his lawyers arguing it would illegally interfere with his presidential transition this month.
29% : Trump has long maintained his innocence in Smith's election interference case against him.
27% : Trump, who was indicted in August 2023 for attempting to overturn the 2020 election results, saw the case delayed by appeals and eventually scaled back significantly.
26% : The second part of the report, related to allegations that Trump unlawfully held on to classified documents after leaving office in 2021 and obstructed the Justice Department's subsequent investigation, was not released.
25% : The report, which was submitted to Congress early Tuesday, says that Smith's team had enough evidence to prosecute Trump had he not been elected.
24% : For example, the report reveals that prosecutors considered charging Trump with inciting that attack on the U.S. Capitol under a U.S. law known as the Insurrection Act.
24% : "The report also says there was insufficient evidence that Trump intend to cause the "full scope" of violence during the riot.
23% : But the Office did not develop direct evidence -- such as an explicit admission or communication with co-conspirators -- of Mr. Trump's subjective intent to cause the full scope of the violence that occurred on January 6."Nonetheless, Smith stood by his decision to prosecute Trump in the report.
22% : "There is no chance Trump is impeached with Republicans controlling both houses of Congress, so this is effectively the end of both the classified document and election fraud cases," Rahmani said.
21% : "In a post on Truth Social, Trump said: "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.
20% : "The report is likely to have little negative impact on Trump, whose position in the polls increased after he was hit with criminal charges last year.
19% : Though Smith sought to salvage the indictment, his team dismissed it entirely in November after Trump won the election, in line with a long-standing DOJ policy not to prosecute a sitting president.
18% : He took the same approach when he charged Trump in Florida instead of Washington, D.C., in the classified documents case because Trump had a potential venue defense.
15% : The DOJ, on the other hand, had been fighting to get the report made public before Trump takes office, since it was highly unlikely Trump would have allowed its release once he was back in the White House.
10% : The report also includes allegations that Trump sought to pressure Vice President Mike Pence into delaying the electoral vote certification on January 6, 2021, and that he supported recruiting false slates of electors in several states.

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