Jack Smith Claims Trump Would Have Been Convicted If He Hadn’t Won Election In Final Report
Special counsel Jack Smith wrote that his team stands “fully behind” prosecuting President-elect Donald Trump in his final report released early Tuesday morning, claiming Trump would have been convicted if he had not won the election.
The DOJ released volume one of Smith’s report covering the 2020 election investigation but held back volume two in light of pending litigation against Trump’s former co-defendants in the classified documents case.
“The Department’s view that the Constitution prohibits the continued indictment and prosecution of a President is categorical and does not turn on the gravity of the crimes charged, the strength of the Government’s proof, or the merits of the prosecution, which the Office stands fully behind,” Smith concluded. “Indeed, but for Mr. Trump’s election and imminent return to the Presidency, the Office assessed that the admissible evidence was sufficient to obtain and sustain a conviction at trial.”
Smith wrote that nobody in the DOJ ever sought to influence his decision making, including about whether to bring charges.
“And to all who know me well, the claim from Mr. Trump that my decisions as a prosecutor were influenced or directed by the Biden administration or other political actors is, in a word, laughable,” Smith wrote.
In an early morning post on Truth Social, Trump called Smith a “lamebrain prosecutor who was unable to get his case tried before the Election, which I won in a landslide.”
“Deranged Jack Smith was unable to successfully prosecute the Political Opponent of his ‘boss,’ Crooked Joe Biden, so he ends up writing yet another ‘Report’ based on information that the Unselect Committee of Political Hacks and Thugs ILLEGALLY DESTROYED AND DELETED, because it showed how totally innocent I was, and how completely guilty Nancy Pelosi, and others, were,” he wrote.
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