US president-elect Donald Trump would have been convicted for his alleged effort to overturn the result of the 2020 election if he had not been elected four years later, according to a special counsel report.
The US Justice Department has released Special Counsel Jack Smith’s report on Mr Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 election, the last act of a prosecutor whose historic criminal cases were thwarted by Mr Trump’s election victory in November.
The department’s “view that the Constitution prohibits the continued indictment and prosecution of a President is categorical and does not turn on the gravity of the crimes charged, the strength of the…