Smith and his team of FBI agents and Prosocutor ‘s felt their case against the in-coming US President was SOLID for a conviction….
Donald Trump gambled against the government….
And Won….
With the help of American voters and the Alito 5 Supreme’s….
But the man IS STILL a convicted Felon…
Only New York State prevailed in holding Trump to the Law….
The Justice Department posted the report on its website shortly before 1 a.m. — less than an hour after a court order barring its release expired. The report serves as the final public record of a historic Justice Department prosecution that never made it to trial, with the federal government abandoning the case in November after its criminal defendant became the president-elect.
Justice Department regulations prohibit the prosecution of a sitting president, but Smith emphasized in his report that dropping the case does not lessen the severity of the crimes that prosecutors allege Trump committed.
“The Department’s view that the Constitution prohibits the continued indictment and prosecution of a President is categorical and does not turn on the gravity of the crimes charged, the strength of the Government’s proof, or the merits of the prosecution, which the Office stands fully behind,” the report reads. “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.”…
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Once Trump was indicted, his lawyers filed appeal after appeal, delaying a potential trial. The proceedings were paused for months when the Supreme Court took up Trump’s question of whether a president’s immunity from criminal prosecution extends to the actions alleged in the indictment.
In an explosive ruling, the justices largely sided with Trump, dramatically expanding the scope of presidential immunity. That decision prompted the Justice Department to file a whittled down indictment, stripped of evidence and allegations related to the president’s core constitutional powers, such as his oversight of the Justice Department, but bolstered to argue that other official acts were taken as a private candidate seeking office and therefore not immune from prosecution….
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Smith gave Trump’s attorneys a chance to review his report earlier this month. In a letter to the attorney general that was also released Tuesday by the Justice Department, the lawyers attacked Smith as an “out-of-control private citizen unconstitutionally posing as a prosecutor” and said his report peddled “false and discredited accusations.”
They urged Garland not to make the report public, saying it would interfere with Trump’s transition — an argument they have since unsuccessfully pursued in court.
Smith’s response noted that despite their bluster, Trump’s attorneys had not raised any specific factual objections to the special counsel’s findings. He called their arguments for suppressing its public release “disingenuous.”
In his separate letter to Garland, Smith balked at repeated assertions by Trump and his allies that politics had tainted the special counsel team’s prosecutorial decisions.
“My Office had one north star: to follow the facts and law wherever they led. Nothing more and nothing less,” he wrote. “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.”…
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