Jack Smith’s final report boasts he could have secured conviction, Trump calls it ‘fake findings’

Release of the report came days after Trump failed to persuade multiple courts to block its release.

Published: January 14, 2025 1:59am

Updated: January 14, 2025 2:11am

Attorney General Merrick Garland submitted to Congress early Tuesday a portion of Special Counsel Jack Smith's final report in which the prosecutor boasted he would’ve secured Donald Trump’s conviction if the President-elect had not won the election.

”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," the 170-page report stated.

The release of the report came days after Trump failed to persuade multiple courts to block its release and just hours after a separate special counsel, David Weiss, released his report accusing President Joe Biden of misleading the American people about the reasons his son Hunter Biden was prosecuted for gun and tax crimes.

Smith alleged in the report that Trump “inspired his supporters to commit acts of physical violence" on Jan. 6 even though Trump gave a speech that day explicitly urging his followers to protest peacefully.

The prosecutor also claimed Trump exhorted his followers to contest the 2020 election by knowingly and falsely claiming there was voter fraud.

"Trump knew that there was no outcome-determinative fraud in the 2020 election, that many of the specific claims that he made were untrue, and that he had lost the election,” Smith alleged.

You can read the full report here.

Trump took to his social media platform Truth Social to immediately contest the report.

“To show you how desperate Deranged Jack Smith is, he released his Fake findings at 1:00 A.M. in the morning,” Trump wrote.

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