Special counsel Jack Smith says evidence against Trump was enough to convict him

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

45% : Smith, in a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland prefacing the report, defended his work and his team, as well as his impartiality in pursuing the federal cases against Trump, whom prosecutors ended up charging with election interference in Washington, D.C., and with hoarding classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago resort and refusing to return them to the FBI.
45% : Trump posted on Truth Social after the report's release.Smith strongly defended the report's work, and emphasized that the DOJ never sought to interfere in it.
39% : Legal fight over releaseFlorida district judge Aileen Cannon on Monday paved the way for the DOJ to release the first part of Smith's inquiry into Trump, covering the investigation and four felony charges against him tied to the 2020 presidential election.
36% : But it wanted to release the first volume, covering the investigation and charges against Trump tied to the 2020 presidential election.
35% : The Department of Justice's long-awaited election interference report against Donald Trump, released early Tuesday, said the evidence against the president-elect would have led to his conviction at trial -- if not for his election victory that led to charges being dropped.Prosecutors wound down the two federal criminal cases against Trump after he won the 2024 election, following longstanding department precedent, and the final report by special counsel Jack Smith is their last chance to explain their decisions.
32% : As for repeated claims by Trump and his allies that the Justice Department had interfered in the 2024 election, Smith pointed out he had worked swiftly to obtain the indictment in the August before an election year.
29% : But they couldn't develop direct evidence that Trump had intended to "cause the full scope of the violence that occurred" that day.
23% : Trump has argued the special counsel was appointed unlawfully, and that any public report would be legally invalid and hurt his transition into the White House.
23% : "Prosecutors also revealed that they had contemplated charging Trump with "insurrection" but they could not prove that he engaged in that rarely charged offense himself.
22% : The report cast Trump as the head of a conspiracy who "sought legal cover" from his alleged co-conspirators.

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