Donald Trump engaged in an “unprecedented criminal effort” to “unlawfully retain power” after losing the 2020 election, Jack Smith said in a report published early Tuesday by the U.S. Justice Department, with the special counsel expressing confidence in the prospects for a conviction at a trial that will not happen now that Trump is returning to the White House.

The report notes the special counsel’s resolve to bring a 4-fee indictment opposed to Trump, accusing him of a conspiracy to obstruct the collection and certification of votes after his 2020 defeat opposed to Democratic President Joe Biden.

He concluded that the evidence would have been “enough to download and a conviction” in the trial, but his electoral victory on November 5 ended the case. The previous forecasts of the Ministry of Justice indicated that there was a acting president, and Trump certainly He would have moved to close the investigations after his return to office on January 20.

Smith’s report said that Trump’s electoral fraud accusations, vast accusations of manipulation of voting or non -citizens voting machines, were “dazzling and, in many cases, false versions. “

“Trump used those lies,” writes Smith, “as an end to succeed over a basic federal government service in the democratic process of the United States. “

The vice president of Trump and other senior administrative officials, as state representatives closest to electoral management, refuted their accusations of public and personal fraud.

“The false statements of Mr. Trump have been demystified several times, directly through the other people who are more productive to determine their truth,” Smith wrote.

Trump’s former attorney general William Barr has previously said he told the president at the time there was no widespread fraud in the election, and a cybersecurity division in Trump’s administration reached the same conclusion. This came before a mob of his supporters tried to stop Congress from certifying the election on Jan. 6, 2021, resulting in violence at the Capitol.

Much of those mentioned in the report has already been made public.

But that includes new details, as prosecutors have planned to qualify Trump for promoting this attack on US law of the American Capitol known as the insurgency law.

The prosecutors, despite everything, concluded that such an accusation raised legal hazards and that there was no inappropriate evidence that Trump intended the “complete scope” of the violence of the disturbances.

“The Bureau did not uncover cases in which a Crook defendant was charged with insurrection for acting within the government in power, rather than bringing it down or thwarting it from the outside,” Smith said.

The Impeachment Act charged Trump with conspiracy to obstruct election certification, fraud the United States of exact election effects and depriving the American electorate of its 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.

Several former Trump lawyers had already been known as conspirators referred to in the accusation.

Prosecutors gave a detailed vision of their opposite case to Trump in previous judicial documents. A Congress panel in 2022 its own 700 -page account of Trump’s movements after the 2020 elections.

The two polls concluded that Trump had spread false allegations of widespread voter fraud after the 2020 election and press lawmakers under strain not to certify the vote and eventually also sought to use fraudulent teams of ‘voters promised to vote for Trump in the states won through Biden, in Bide, an attempt to save Congress from certifying Biden’s victory.

The effort led to January 6, 2021 opposite to the American Capitol, when a multitude of Trump supporters assaulted Congress in a failed attempt to save legislators to certify the vote.

Smith’s report noted that Trump’s crusade of tension selective.

“Significantly, he made election claims to legislators and state leaders who shared his political association and were his political supporters, and in the states he had lost,” he wrote.

Smith’s case faced legal hurdles even before Trump’s election victory. He was arrested for months, while Trump pressed his claim that he could not be prosecuted for official moves taken as president.

The Supreme Court’s conservative majority largely sided with him, granting former presidents broad immunity from criminal prosecution.

“Before this case, no court had ever found that presidents are immune from criminal responsibility for their official acts, and no text in the Constitution explicitly confers such criminal immunity on the president,” wrote Smith.

“The [special Counsel] office proceeded from the same premise,” he said.

After the launch, Trump, in an article about his social truth, called Smith “a prosecutor from Lamebrain who could not try his case before the elections. “

In a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland he made public through the United States Ministry of Justice, Trump’s lawyers described the report as a “political motivation attack” and said the publication before Trump returns to the White House would damage The presidential transition.

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A moment in the report’s segment Main Points Smith’s case accusing Trump of illegally keeping national security documents after leaving the White House in 2021, which also led to an indictment of the twist.

Smith was appointed by Garland to investigate both matters in November 2022 — the same month Trump announced his plans to contest the 2024 election.

The Justice Department has committed not to make that portion public while legal proceedings continue against two Trump associates charged in the case, Walt Nauta and Carlos De Oliveira.

The accusations against Trump himself were dismissed in a resolution through the American district trial over Aileen Cannon, whom the Smith team planned to appeal before Trump’s electoral victory on November 5.

Cannon condemned the Justice Department for now for halting plans to allow some senior members of Congress to privately review the document segment of the report.

Smith, who resigned last week and has faced relentless criticism from Trump, also defended his investigation and the prosecutors who worked on it.

Trump gets an unconditional discharge in conviction

“Trump’s statement that my decisions as a prosecutor have been influenced or guided through Biden management or policy actors is, in a word, ridiculous,” Smith wrote in a letter detailing his report.

Trump was convicted in a New York state case on 34 felony counts involving a scheme to falsify business records in connection with hush money payments to a porn actress, but a judge last week spared him fines or a prison term. The conviction will still assure that Trump will become the first president to take office with a felony conviction on his record.

A District Prosecutor of Georgia received an accusation for Trump and several associates, adding the former staff of the White House staff Mark Meadows, in relation to the interference in the elections of that state. But the case has bogged down in appeals and hearings on the management of the Fulton County case of the case of the case. , and is recently attracting its elimination of the case through a state agency.

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