US President-elect Donald Trump would have been convicted for his alleged attempt to change the results of the 2020 election if he had not won four years later, according to a report by special counsel Jack Smith published today by American media, quoted by Agence France-Presse, BTA reported.
“If it were not for Trump's election and his imminent return to the presidency, the“ The special counsel's "found that there was sufficient evidence to obtain a conviction at trial," the report said.
Donald Trump, who will return to the White House on January 20, was indicted in the investigation into the January 6, 2021, storming of the Capitol by a crowd of Republican supporters in Washington, D.C., who had gathered to challenge the election of Joe Biden as president.
Jack Smith, the special counsel appointed to lead the investigation, dropped the federal criminal case against the future president after he won the presidential election last November. Shortly after the report was released that night, Donald Trump responded with a furious message on his social media account, Truth Social. He called Smith a "crazy" person.
“Crazy Jack Smith has been unsuccessful in prosecuting his "boss" political opponent, the corrupt Joe Biden. So he ended up writing yet another "report" based on information“ that a group of "corrupt politicians and thugs illegally destroyed and deleted because it showed how completely innocent I am," the statement said.
“To show you how desperate Crazy Jack Smith is, he posted his false findings at 1:00 a.m. morning“, the president-elect added in another statement.
Trump-appointed federal judge Eileen Cannon dismissed another case against him last year over his handling of top-secret documents after leaving the White House, but charges remain against two of his former co-defendants. Special Counsel Smith left the Justice Department last week, days after submitting his final report.