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Special Counsel report: The incoming president of the United States would have been convicted of violent crimes against the Constitution if his case had been brought in a timelier manner.
January 14, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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WASHINGTON President-elect Donald Trump "inspired his supporters to commit acts of physical violence" on Jan. 6 and knowingly spread an objectively false narrative about election fraud in the 2020 election, special counsel Jack Smith said in a report defending his investigation made public early Tuesday.
The 170-page report summarized Smith's investigation into Trump's efforts to maintain power after he lost the 2020 election to Joe Biden, which culminated in the deadly Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Smith's office conducted interviews with more than 250 individuals in connection with the investigation and federal grand jurors heard testimony from more than 55 witnesses as part of the probe.
Smith has been the subject of unending criticism by Trump, whose allies have suggested the special counsel should now face criminal charges, and he used the report to deliver a full-throated defense of his decision to bring charges.
"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.
If it wasn't for Trump's election in November that prevented the prosecution from moving forward, the case would have ended in the president-elect's conviction, he wrote.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/justice-dept-sends-congress-jack-smiths-report-trumps-effort-overturn-rcna187492
gab13by13
(26,159 posts)what does Marcy Wheeler have to say about that?
Blues Heron
(6,308 posts)ms liberty
(9,925 posts)Lovely.
spanone
(138,053 posts)You can get away with the most grievous of crimes in America.
All charges will be dropped.
The Justice Department failed America.
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(1,681 posts)RobertDevereaux
(1,973 posts)malaise
(280,403 posts)Special Counsel report: The incoming president of the United States would have been convicted of violent crimes against the Constitution if his case had been brought in a timelier manner.
This is undiluted fuckery.
gab13by13
(26,159 posts)Time Mattered.
Our DOJ is the most powerful investigative agency in the world. Our DOJ went crawling to the J6 select committee begging it to turn over to them the evidence it had dug up on Trump and his insurrection.
The J6 select committee with its limited resources was way ahead of DOJ in the investigation of Trump.
malaise
(280,403 posts)Rec
That said MoscowMitch, Kevin McCarthy , the RWs at the Supreme Court et al must not get a pass.
Add
Are he asholes fthat are Hellbent on destroying the USA. If it survives their legacy will be total mud they wont feel it be cause they will be dead.but their families wilbearthe shame and go down in history n Ifamy.
malaise
(280,403 posts)Rec
Scrivener7
(53,797 posts)Times when I wanted to throw things, you just kept making lucid, measured arguments and letting the insults and swarming roll off you.
Jit423
(771 posts)She should be disbarred.
LymphocyteLover
(7,197 posts)#3 -- the corporate media is responsible. #4-- social media is responsible. #5-- Dems are responsible for not doing more to prevent this treasonous POS from taking office.
IMHO.
Autumn
(47,158 posts)still-prayin4rain
(270 posts)Katinfl
(287 posts)Anyone with brains knew what the outcome would have/ should have been. Plenty of blame to go around , but I think the fact that Garland wasted time is the biggest factor and thats why the blame falls on him. Consequently, we are f&^%*&!
Ray Bruns
(4,890 posts)Escape
(98 posts)for Merrick Garland. He knew all of this and did nothing.
He drove the getaway car for the felon.
RedWhiteBlueIsRacist
(514 posts)If the President is a King, you must acquit.
iluvtennis
(21,023 posts)Mr. Evil
(3,018 posts)Merrick Garland found guilty of 'aiding and abetting after the fact.'
jalan48
(14,637 posts)johnnyfins
(1,645 posts)Illegitimate presidency.
LymphocyteLover
(7,197 posts)KS Toronado
(20,337 posts)Irish_Dem
(62,819 posts)Scrivener7
(53,797 posts)All of it was done in plain sight, and a ton of people ON OUR SIDE tried to gaslight us and tell us we weren't seeing what our eyes were showing us.
Goddamn it.
republianmushroom
(18,636 posts)Figarosmom
(4,108 posts)I doen't know what will happen to witnesses. But I do know that tsf has put into motion with his cabinet placements the destruction of all evidence in every department there may be against him. That will include all the evidence of him being a Russian asset. It will all be gone.