Donald Trump Would Have Been Convicted Of Trying To Overturn 2020 Election Had He Not Won Four Years Later, DoJ Report Says

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Donald Trump would have been convicted of illegally trying to overturn the result of the 2020 U.S. election had he not become President again, according to Special Counsel Jack Smith‘s partially released report.

The evidence against Trump was “sufficient to obtain and sustain a conviction at trial,” Smith wrote. Trump has already hit back on his Truth Social platform to say the findings were “fake” and criticize the process. “But for Mr Trump’s election [in 2024] and imminent return to the presidency, the office assessed that the admissible evidence was sufficient to obtain and sustain a conviction at trial,” said the Department of Justice (DoJ) report, which went into further detail around the case.

Addressing why the case was closed, the report noted that the U.S. Constitution forbids the prosecution of a sitting president.

In a letter accompanying the release sent to the attorney general, the BBC reported that Smith denied any suggestion the case was politically motivated: “The claim from Mr Trump that my decisions as a prosecutor were influenced or directed by the [President Joe] Biden administration or other political actors is, in a word, laughable,” said this letter.