Smith led the federal cases against Donald Trump on charges of trying to overturn his 2020 election defeat and mishandling of classified documents. Trump suggested he might seek retribution.
The special counsel's report concludes the criminal investigation that brought charges against a former president for the first time.
Smith's report provides new details about election-interference charges against Trump, says he believes election victory saved him from conviction.
The Justice Department delivered part of special counsel Jack Smith’s report to Congress early Tuesday morning, explaining his charging decisions related to the probe into now-President-elect Donald Trump’s alleged efforts to subvert the 2020 election leading up to and during the attack on the U.
The evidence wJack Smith’s 137-page report, released overnight less than one week before Trump will be sworn in for a second term as president, is a full-throated justification of his investigation and defense against his myriad critics.
In a last rebuke to the former president he investigated for two years, special counsel Jack Smith denounced Donald Trump for levying "laughable" attacks on the DOJ.
Former special counsel Jack Smith used his final report to counter years of claims from President-elect Trump while peeling back the curtain on how he approached the unprecedented case. The
US Special Counsel Jack Smith, who led the federal ... prepared to return to the White House. Smith resigned on Friday from the US Department of Justice, according to a court filing on Saturday ...
There must be investigations into what led the bogus charges against President Donald Trump to be brought at all.
Meanwhile, congressional Democrats are pushing the attorney general to drop the charges against Trump’s co-defendants to cinch the dosser’s release.
The now former special counsel said Trump would have been convicted for his alleged effort to overturn the 2020 election result if he hadn't been elected president