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6:20Now PlayingDonald Trump and his legal allies' best efforts to block the DOJ report are finally blown apart after Special Counsel Jack Smith's report on evidence over Trump's effort to overturn the 2020 election is released. John Iadarola breaks it down on The Damage Report. Leave a comment with your thoughts below!
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Four Takeaways From the Special Counsel’s Report on the Trump Election Case
"The Justice Department released a 137-page volume early Tuesday morning laying out the details of the investigation that the former special counsel Jack Smith conducted into President-elect Donald J. Trump’s attempts to overturn his loss in the 2020 election.
The release of the report, which Mr. Trump’s legal team had vehemently fought, is likely to be the Justice Department’s final word on the attempt to use the legal system to hold Mr. Trump accountable for conspiring to subvert the election results. Because Mr. Trump won the 2024 election, prosecutors were forced under a binding Justice Department policy to drop the case against him.
Criminal investigators, the report said, interviewed more than 250 people and obtained grand jury testimony from more than 55 witnesses — some after lengthy battles over executive privilege. Mr. Smith said the work of the House committee that separately examined the Capitol attack was only “a small part of the office’s investigative record.”"
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