Trump would have been convicted of election interference, DoJ report says
Trump would have been convicted of election interference, DoJ report says
A prosecutor says there was enough evidence in the 2020 US election case - but he was scuppered by Trump's win in 2024.
Summary
Special counsel Jack Smith's report asserts sufficient evidence existed to convict Donald Trump for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election but cites Trump’s 2024 presidential victory as the reason charges were dropped, due to constitutional protections for sitting presidents.
Smith detailed Trump’s actions, including pressuring officials, spreading false election claims, and encouraging protests.
While charges against co-conspirators were considered, no final conclusions were reached.
Smith denied political bias, emphasizing adherence to facts and law.
The report also references challenges like expanded presidential immunity.
Well great job dragging your asses and never getting this out in time to save the USA. Now we get at least 4 more years of terror, hopefully we're all still here after.
TBH I'm not sure how would this "obviously political witch hunt /s" affect elections. It could go the other way you'd expect.
Not with a lot of the modern GOP. They're fully convinced the "establishment" is out to get each and every one of them, personally, and Trump being accused of interfering in an election is just fuel on that fire.
Would've, could've, should've. You had several years to do it.
I think if anyone is to blame, and there are people, it's not Jack Smith. I feel he's one that actually did try and got fucked at every turn by corruption and Canon.
Yeah, no shit. Words can't describe how furious I am about Jan. 6 and the utter lack of accountability for the powerful people responsible for it. Including the GOP bootlickers in power at the time and still to this day.
Whenever my rage starts to fade, I remind myself how things would have played out if it’d been Obama and his followers who’d attacked the Capitol.
Look at them trying to convince us there's rule of law. Don't worry guys, the system that isn't completely corrupt to its core WOULD have worked. Source: Trust me bro.
Ok, but he wasn't a president when he did the crime. Convict him.
Biden wasn't sworn in yet, Trump was still President.
Jack Smith better be getting him and his family the fuck out of the U.S. and to a country without an extradition treaty because their lives are worth nothing in America now.
Unfortunately, that doesn't leave him with a lot of great options.
Aw shucks, that’s a bummer. Good try though, fellas! You gave it your all and I’m sure you’ll gettem next time!
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Imagine believing that this racist system of violence created by literal slave masters is about justice.
Thank you Merrick Garland!
It would be funny now if trumps DOJ threw Garland in jail, would serve him right for not doing his job when he had the chance.
I might break my schadenfreude gland.
This is nonsense. He wouldn't have been convicted and the proof for that was that he wasn't convicted.
It was never going to happen. The timing made sure of it.
A convenient excuse.
My homework would have got an A+ if I had handed it in.
let the records show that i did in fact do my homework. to prove this, i will release it publicly to world. pay no mind to the fact that the deadline has already passed.
Don't wait so long that the criminal can run and win again, before justice gets served then...
...and would receive no punishement
What is the constitutional protection for sitting presidents? You mean that part in the constitution which says presidents are basically kings and they are above the law and they can do whatever they want? Oh yeah, that part. That part that totally exists and totally says that.
SCOTUS says this constitutional protections are there. We should totally trust SCOTUS. It’s not like SCOTUS is unbelievably corrupt, doing the bidding of billionaires, or trying to usher in a Conservative wet dream.
All this time and effort and the only person that came close to stopping this madness was Thomas Matthew Crooks.
Yeah okay sure. And I’d be the Archbishop of Canterbury if it weren’t for those pesky meddling kids too right
Woulda coulda shoulda