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Donald Trump would have been convicted over 2020 election, special counsel report says (www.theguardian.com)

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Donald Trump would have been convicted of crimes over his failed attempt to cling to power in 2020 if he had not won the presidential election in 2024, according to the special counsel who investigated him.

Jack Smith’s report (***the report is 174 pages long) detailing his team’s findings about Trump’s efforts to subvert democracy was released by the justice department early on Tuesday.

Following the insurrection on 6 January, 2021, Smith was appointed as special counsel to investigate Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election. His investigation culminated in a detailed report, submitted to the attorney general, Merrick Garland.

Volume one of the report meticulously outlines Trump’s actions, including his efforts to pressure state officials, assemble alternate electors and encourage supporters to protest against the election results.

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[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 45 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Blame Garland

And Biden, and democrats in congress for not pushing to fucking get it done for 2 years.
And Pelosi for preventing any action and protecting Trump while he was president, and she was majority leader.
And Mueller for making a mockery of the special investigation, dragging it out for years, and then having done just about the narrowest investigation possible, and letting traitors walk despite clear evidence.

It's fucking incompetence all the way through, to a degree it must be perceived as maliciousness, and that both parties are in on it.

Goddam I'm happy to live in a country that doesn't effectively have a 2 party system. I cannot fathom how Americans tolerate their idiotic flawed democracy for almost 250 years now! Isn't it about time to modernize? And yet American politicians boast of their democracy and claim to protect democracy around the world, when they fucking can't even figure it out for their own country!

[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 year ago

Interrupting the peaceful transition of power should have been the Day 1 job of the justice department. Not the second year job of Jack Smith.

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Mueller cited a dozen times where Trump committed obstruction and specifically said it was up to Congress to impeach him.

But a corrupt AG released a summary of the report that just fucking lied about what was in the report and people believed it.