Via Jack Smith Has His Say - by Jay Kuo - The Status Kuo...

Unlike the Mueller Report, which was a troubling but ultimately noncommittal document that a wily and cynical Bill Barr could spin so Trump could misleadingly claim exoneration, Smith’s report is a damning, full-throated condemnation of Trump. It cuts Trump off from falsely claiming his innocence, and it will leave a permanent asterisk by Trump’s name in the history books.

The headliner is this: Smith concluded that Donald Trump would have been found guilty on each of three conspiracy counts, had he not won reelection this year, a result that forced Smith to dismiss the charges per Department policy of not prosecuting a sitting president. Despite the required dismissal, the admissible evidence, Smith stated in blunt terms, was “sufficient to obtain and sustain a conviction at trial.”

Smith addressed a claim by Trump made recently to try and stop the release of the report. His lawyers had written to Attorney General Merrick Garland claiming that dismissal of his criminal cases signified Mr. Trump’s “complete exoneration.”

“That is false,” Smith wrote to Garland.

He added, “The Department’s view that the Constitution prohibits Mr. Trump’s indictment and prosecution while he is in office is categorical and does not turn on the gravity of the crimes charged, the strength of the Government’s proof, or the merits of the prosecution — all of which the Office stands fully behind.

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