Special counsel Jack Smith said his team “stood up for the rule of law” as it investigated President-elect Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election, writing in a much-anticipated report released Wednesday that he stands fully behind his decision to bring criminal charges that he believes would have resulted in a conviction had voters not returned Trump to the White House.
“The throughline of all of Mr Trump’s criminal efforts was deceit — knowingly false claims of election fraud — and the evidence shows that Mr Trump used these lies as a weapon to defeat a federal government function foundational to the United States’ democratic process,”…