US prosecutor Jack Smith defends criminal case against Trump

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

35% : The indictment charged Trump with conspiring to obstruct the election certification, defraud the United States of accurate election results and deprive U.S. voters of their voting rights.Smith's office determined that charges may have been justified against some co-conspirators accused of helping Trump carry out the plan, but the report said prosecutors reached no final conclusions.
34% : Prosecutors gave a detailed view of their case against Trump in previous court filings.
33% : Trump pleaded not guilty to all charges.
30% : But it includes some new details, such as that prosecutors considered charging Trump with inciting the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol under a U.S. law known as the Insurrection Act.
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.
28% : After the release, Trump, in a post on his Truth Social site, called Smith a "lamebrain prosecutor who was unable to get his case tried before the election.
28% : Prosecutors ultimately concluded that such a charge posed legal risks and there was insufficient evidence that Trump intended for the "full scope" of violence during the riot, a failed attempt by a mob of his supporters to stop Congress from certifying the 2020 election.
26% : -U.S. Special Counsel Jack Smith concluded that Donald Trump engaged in an "unprecedented criminal effort" to hold on to power after losing the 2020 election, but was thwarted in bringing the case to trial by the president-elect's November election victory, according to a report published on Tuesday.
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.
24% : 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.
23% : Regularly assailing Smith as "deranged," Trump depicted the cases as politically motivated attempts to damage his campaign and political movement.
16% : It concludes that the evidence would have been enough to convict Trump at trial, but his imminent return to the presidency, set for Jan. 20, made that impossible.Smith, who has faced relentless criticism from Trump, also defended his investigation and the prosecutors who worked on it.
9% : The report details Smith's decision to bring a four-count indictment against Trump, accusing him 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 and pressured state lawmakers not to certify the vote, and ultimately, also sought to use fraudulent groups of electors pledged to vote for Trump, in states actually won by Biden, in a bid to stop Congress from certifying Biden's win.

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