(Washington) Donald Trump illegally attempted to “reverse the results of the 2020 election” and then prevent the transfer of power to his successor Joe Biden, reaffirmed Thursday former US special prosecutor Jack Smith, who had investigated the two federal criminal proceedings against him.
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“Rather than accept his defeat in the 2020 presidential election, President Trump engaged in an illegal plan to reverse the results and prevent the legal transfer of power” to Democrat Joe Biden, winner of the vote, Jack Smith will declare before the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives, according to the text of his intervention published by American media.
“I made my decisions without consideration of President Trump’s political orientation, activities or beliefs, or his candidacy in 2024. President Trump was indicted because the evidence showed that he deliberately violated the laws he was sworn to uphold,” adds Jack Smith.
But after the election of Donald Trump in November 2024, the federal prosecutor ended the two federal proceedings he was investigating against him, one for illegal attempts to reverse the results of the 2020 election, the other for withholding classified documents after his departure from the White House.
The Justice Department has thus followed its policy, dating back to the Watergate scandal, of not prosecuting a sitting president.
But in January 2025, Jack Smith said, in his final report on the electoral interference case in 2020, convinced that, “without the election of Mr. Trump and his imminent return to the presidency”, he would have succeeded in having him convicted.
