Special counsel report says Trump would have been convicted in election case - The Boston Globe

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

39% : The report's description of this violence was all the more remarkable given that Trump has repeatedly vowed to pardon many Jan. 6 defendants, possibly including ones who assaulted police officers on that day.
39% : Smith also filed a separate indictment in Florida, charging Trump with illegally holding on to classified documents after he left office and conspiring with two co-defendants to obstruct the government's repeated efforts to retrieve them.
37% : "Jack is a lamebrain prosecutor who was unable to get his case tried before the Election, which I won in a landslide," Trump said.
36% : "The report contained little information about Trump's actions that had not already been made public through his indictment, filed in U.S. District Court in Washington in August 2023, or in a lengthy evidentiary memo that Smith filed in October, part of the fallout from the Supreme Court's ruling that Trump enjoyed presumptive immunity for his official acts as president.
35% : Without naming any particular people, Smith wrote briefly that his team "had made a preliminary determination that the admissible evidence could justify seeking charges against certain co-conspirators" and had started to evaluate whether any such new case should be joined with Trump's or brought separately.
35% : But the judge, Aileen M. Cannon, who was appointed by Trump, also barred the Justice Department from immediately releasing -- even to Congress -- the second volume of Smith's report, which is about the documents case.
29% : "One of the most serious obstacles prosecutors faced, Smith wrote, was that the attempts to hold Trump accountable both for mishandling classified documents and for trying to subvert the 2020 election took place while he was seeking the White House again.
28% : In his report, Smith took Trump to task not only for his efforts to reverse the results of a free and fair election, but also for consistently encouraging "violence against his perceived opponents" throughout the chaotic weeks between Election Day and Jan. 6, 2021, when a mob of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol, injuring more than 140 police officers.
25% : In a social media post shortly before 2 a.m. Tuesday, Trump reacted with anger to the report's release, calling Smith "deranged" and insisting that the prosecution was political.
24% : After Trump won the 2024 election, Smith dropped the cases because of a Justice Department policy that prohibits the prosecution of sitting presidents.
9% : "The election charges Smith brought against Trump accused him of engaging in three intersecting conspiracies to overturn his loss to President Joe Biden.

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