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US Justice Dept releases report on Trump attempt to overturn 2020 election

Jan 14, 2025 View Original Article
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    10% Center

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    5% ReliablePoor

  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    -34% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

34% : Prosecutors gave a detailed view of their case against Trump in previous court filings.
33% : Trump pleaded not guilty to all charges.
30% : Smith, who left the Justice Department last week, dropped both cases against Trump after he won last year's election, citing a longstanding Justice Department policy against prosecuting a sitting president.
26% : It was paused for months while Trump pressed his claim that he could not be prosecuted for official actions taken as president.
25% : A second section of the report details Smith's case accusing Trump of illegally retaining sensitive national security documents after leaving the White House in 2021.
25% : Trump and his two former co-defendants in the classified documents case sought to block the release of the report, days before Trump is set to return to office on Jan. 20.
23% : Regularly assailing Smith as "deranged," Trump depicted the cases as politically motivated attempts to damage his campaign and political movement.
23% : The effort culminated in the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol when a mob of Trump supporters stormed Congress in a failed attempt to stop lawmakers from certifying the vote.
11% : The report is expected to detail Smith's decision to bring a four-count indictment against Trump accusing the Republican president-elect of plotting to obstruct the collection and certification of votes following his 2020 defeat by Democratic President Joe Biden.
2% : Both investigations concluded that Trump spread false claims of widespread voter fraud following the 2020 election, pressured state lawmakers not to certify the vote and ultimately sought to use fraudulent groups of electors pledged to vote for Trump, in states actually won by Biden, in an attempt to stop Congress from certifying Biden's win.

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