Special Counsel: Trump would have been convicted in election case | Honolulu Star-Advertiser

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43% : Special counsel Jack Smith said in a final report released Tuesday that he believed the evidence was sufficient to convict former President Donald Trump in a trial if his success in the 2024 election had not made it impossible for the prosecution to continue.Jack Smith, the special counsel who indicted President-elect Donald Trump on charges of seeking to cling to power after losing the 2020 election, said in a final report released early Tuesday that he believed the evidence was sufficient to convict Trump in a trial if his success in the 2024 election had not made it impossible for the prosecution to continue.
39% : But the judge, Aileen Cannon, who was appointed by Trump himself, also barred the Justice Department from immediately releasing -- even to Congress -- a second volume of the report concerning the documents case.
39% : In August 2023, Smith charged Trump in U.S. District Court in Washington with three intersecting conspiracy counts accusing him of plotting to overturn his loss in the 2020 election.
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 effort to retrieve them.
21% : But after Trump won the 2024 election, Smith dropped the cases because of a Justice Department policy that prohibits prosecuting sitting presidents.

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