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Prosecutor Jack Smith claims that the evidence against Donald Trump was enough to convict him in court.
But the 2024 election stops further prosecutions.
“The evidence admitted was sufficient,” Smith writes in a new report.
Here, Trump makes the gesture towards the journalists during the trial
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Special Counsel Jack Smith, who prosecuted President Donald Trump for trying to cling to power after he lost the 2020 election, has issued a new statement.
In a final report released Tuesday morning, and which The New York Times has heard, Smith announced that he believes the previous evidence would have actually been sufficient to convict Trump in a trial — but that his success in the 2024 election has made it no longer possible for the prosecution to proceed.
“The evidence admitted was sufficient to reach and sustain a conviction in court,” the report states.
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fullscreen Prosecutor Jack Smith. Photo: J. Scott Applewhite/AP
Trump: “Smith is crazy”
After it was released, Trump responded that: “Smith is crazy” and that “his conclusions are false.”
The charges against the now re-elected president concerned four crimes. They include his attempt to have the results of the 2020 election overturned, the storming of the Capitol and the storage of classified documents at the Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida.
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full screen Sketch from the trial against Trump. Photo: Dana Verkouteren / AP