Special counsel Jack Smith's report on 2020 election subversion efforts

[Mike Honcho 5,269]

Quote

 

Special counsel Jack Smith and his team believed they could have secured a conviction against Donald Trump over his attempt to subvert the 2020 election, according to a report released early Tuesday that details the president-elect’s “criminal efforts to retain power.”

The more than 130-page report spells out in extensive — if largely already known — detail how Trump tried to overturn the 2020 election. Smith’s team states in no uncertain terms that they believed Trump criminally attempted to subvert the will of the people and overturn the election results.

“As set forth in the original and superseding indictments, when it became clear that Mr. Trump had lost the election and that lawful means of challenging the election results had failed, he resorted to a series of criminal efforts to retain power,” the report states.

The transmission of Smith’s January 6 findings came after the president-elect and his allies were unable to stop the department from releasing it. The report was submitted to Congress and released early Tuesday by Attorney General Merrick Garland after a court hold blocking its release expired at midnight.

It contains a factual recitation of Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 election, including his “pressure on state officials,” the “fraudulent electors plan,” his “pressure on the Vice President” Mike Pence, and a section on how Trump’s supporters attacked the US Capitol on January 6. In effect, it mirrors the landmark federal election subversion indictment that Smith brought against Trump in 2023, retooled in 2024 after the Supreme Court’s immunity ruling, and ultimately withdrew after Trump’s victory in the November election.

Read the report

 

Sadly for most, the response will be "nothing to see here."

 

[Hardcore troubadour 15,417]

[MDC 7,407]

40 minutes ago, Mike Honcho said:

Sadly for most, the response will be "nothing to see here."

 

The muh fraud crowd doesn’t care about fraud.

[TBayXXXVII 2,545]

Well, at least  we now know what the impeachment proceedings this term will be about.

[Fnord 2,264]

This thread might not even make a full page. Americans have shown they are comfortable with it. We are on the downslope as a society and picking up speed fast. Our kids will not have a better quality of life than we did. 

[Hardcore troubadour 15,417]

8 minutes ago, Fnord said:

This thread might not even make a full page. Americans have shown they are comfortable with it. We are on the downslope as a society and picking up speed fast. Our kids will not have a better quality of life than we did. 

Votes for politicians that tell him men can get pregnant. 

[Voltaire 5,316]

Congratulations to Jack Smith for figuring out how to fill out his resignation paperwork successfully.

 

[The Real timschochet 6,760]

13 minutes ago, Fnord said:

This thread might not even make a full page. Americans have shown they are comfortable with it. We are on the downslope as a society and picking up speed fast. Our kids will not have a better quality of life than we did. 

I don’t believe that. Donald Trump represents an unusual, almost unique set of circumstances. I don’t think his success in getting away with the crap he has will have much of an impact on our society as a whole. 

[Hardcore troubadour 15,417]

7 minutes ago, The Real timschochet said:

I don’t believe that. Donald Trump represents an unusual, almost unique set of circumstances. I don’t think his success in getting away with the crap he has will have much of an impact on our society as a whole. 

This guy too

[Voltaire 5,316]

Dr. Claw I'll Get You Gadget (youtube.com)

 

[Tree of Knowledge 1,855]

Yawn.  Political hatchet job from a bunch of partisan hacks.  Smith is a jack boot thug that is begging Biden for a pardon from prosecution.  What does that tell you?