Smith defends Trump prosecution as final Jan. 6 report released to the public

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : The special counsel described prosecuting Trump during his 2024 presidential campaign as an "unprecedented challenge," detailing at length the former president's efforts to command strong loyalty from potential witnesses and attack prosecutors.
49% : The report offers a first glimpse at Smith's inner thoughts on how he approached the case, as he has previously spoken publicly about the case only when he was first appointed and each time Trump was charged.Smith, who resigned from the Justice Department on Friday, details his decision to ask the court to dismiss charges against Trump after he won reelection, writing that he believed he would have scored a conviction against the president-elect in the high-stakes case.
46% : Special counsel Jack Smith defended his investigations into President-elect Trump in a final report released publicly early Tuesday morning, saying his determinations were free from political interference and that, if permitted to proceed, his cases would have likely secured a conviction.
46% : "The release of the report comes after a swift court battle launched by Trump as he and his co-defendants in the Mar-a-Lago case sought to block both volumes of Smith's report from being shared with the public.
30% : In his letter to Garland, Smith broke his silence on more than a year of attacks from Trump, who accused Smith of being at the helm of a politically motivated prosecution.
27% : The public release does not include a second volume Smith wrote concerning the prosecution of Trump for his handling of classified documents.
22% : It is a decision I stand behind fully," Smith wrote, adding that Garland nor anyone else at the Justice Department pushed him to prosecute Trump.
20% : "Trump planned to install Clark as acting attorney general to forward an investigation into his baseless claims of election fraud in the 2020 election.
18% : Another letter included in the report details Smith's pushback as Trump was fighting the release of his report.

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