Special counsel report details Trump's efforts to overturn 2020 election results

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : Here are the people Trump picked for key positions so far President-elect Donald Trump Susie Wiles, White House Chief of Staff Marco Rubio, Secretary of State Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defense Pam Bondi, Attorney General Kristi Noem, Secretary of Homeland Security Doug Burgum, Secretary of the Interior Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Secretary of Health and Human Services Scott Bessent, Treasury Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer, Labor Secretary Scott Turner, Housing and Urban Development Sean Duffy, Secretary of Transportation Chris Wright, Secretary of Energy Linda McMahon, Secretary of Education Brooke Rollins, Secretary of Agriculture Howard Lutnick, Secretary of Commerce Karoline Leavitt, White House press secretary Tulsi Gabbard, National Intelligence Director John Ratcliffe, Central Intelligence Agency Director Kash Patel, Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Lee Zeldin, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Brendan Carr, Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission Paul Atkins, Chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission Jared Isaacman, NASA Administrator Elise Stefanik, Ambassador to the United Nations Matt Whitaker, Ambassador to NATO David Perdue, Ambassador to China Pete Hoekstra, Ambassador to Canada Mike Huckabee, Ambassador to Israel Kimberly Guilfoyle, Ambassador to Greece Steven Witkoff, Special Envoy to the Middle East Keith Kellogg, Special Envoy for Ukraine and Russia Mike Waltz, National Security Adviser Stephen Miller, Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Tom Homan, 'Border Czar' Rodney Scott, Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Billy Long, Internal Revenue Service commissioner Kelly Loeffler, Small Business Administration administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz, Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services administrator Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to advise White House on government efficiency Russell Vought, Office of Management and Budget Kari Lake, Voice of America Additional selections to the incoming White House
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. ____ Associated Press writer Zeke Miller contributed to the report.
42% : Though most of the details of Trump's efforts to undo the election are already well established, 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 inquiry was politicized or that he worked in collaboration with the White House -- an assessment he called "laughable.
35% : Special counsel Jack Smith said his team "stood up for the rule of law" as it investigated President-elect Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election, writing in a much-anticipated report released Tuesday that he stands fully behind his decision to bring criminal charges that he believes would have resulted in a conviction had voters not returned Trump to the White House.
35% : " Trump had been indicted in August 2023 on charges of working to overturn the election, but the case was delayed by appeals and ultimately significantly narrowed by a conservative-majority Supreme Court that held for the first time that former presidents enjoy sweeping immunity from criminal prosecution for official acts.
34% : It says that just before he left the White House to deliver a speech at the Ellipse that day, he called Pence one last time and that when the vice president told him that he planned to issue a public statement that he lacked the authority to do as Trump had requested, "Mr. Trump expressed anger at him.
29% : The report, arriving just days before Trump is to return to office on Jan. 20, focuses fresh attention on the Republican's frantic but failed effort to cling to power in 2020 after he lost to Democrat Joe Biden.
21% : Trump responded early Tuesday with a post on his Truth Social platform, claiming he was "totally innocent" and calling Smith "a lamebrain prosecutor who was unable to get his case tried before the Election."
18% : The report is unsparing in its details about schemes undertaken by Trump to undo the presidential contest, accusing him of an "unprecedented criminal effort to overturn the legitimate results of the election in order to retain power.
14% : A separate volume of the report focused on Trump's hoarding of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago, actions that formed the basis of a separate indictment against Trump, will remain under wraps for now.

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