Final Report on the Special Counsel's Investigations and Prosecutions Volume One

Final Report on the Special Counsel's Investigations and Prosecutions Volume One

If Donald Trump didn’t win the presidential election in November, the Justice Department had ample evidence to convict him at trial of trying to obstruct the 2020 election results, special counsel Jack Smith said in a report released early Tuesday morning.

The Justice Department made the findings public shortly before 1 a.m. — less than an hour after a court order barring their 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 make the crimes that prosecutors allege that Trump committed any less serious.