Trump would have been convicted of election interference, DoJ report says

by | Jan 14, 2025 | Top Stories

President-elect Donald Trump would have been convicted of illegally trying to overturn the result of the 2020 presidential election – which he lost – if he had not successfully been re-elected in 2024, according to a Department of Justice report released to Congress.”The admissible evidence was sufficient to obtain and sustain a conviction at trial,” the report by Special Counsel Jack Smith said. Smith is “deranged” and his findings are “fake”, Trump said after the report was released. Trump was accused of pressurising officials to reverse the 2020 result, knowingly spreading lies about election fraud and seeking to exploit the riot at the US Capitol on 6 January 2021. He denied any wrongdoing.Trump, who was president at the time of the alleged crimes, subsequently spent four years out of office – but was successfully re-elected to the White House in November. He will return to the presidency next week.After his success in the 2024 vote, the various legal issues that he had been battling have largely evaporated.Although Jack Smith – the special counsel who investigated him in this and one other case – has resigned from his post ahead of Trump’s return, the path was cleared by a judge for the first part of his report to be released.The 137-page document was sent to Congress after midnight on Tuesday. The judge, Aileen Cannon, ordered a hearing later in the week on whether to release the second part of the report – which focuses on separate allegations that Trump illegally kept classified government documents at his home in Florida.Posting on his Truth Social website, Trump maintained his innocence, taunting Smith by writing that the prosecutor “was unable to get his case tried before the election, which I won in a landslide”. Trump added: “THE VOTERS HAVE SPOKEN!!!”Smith was appointed …

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