Jack Smith evidence sufficient to convict Trump but election blocked prosecution

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Jack Smith's final report says Trump would have been convicted if he hadn't won

Special Counsel Jack Smith released Volume 1 of his final report on January 14, 2025, documenting the evidence against Trump for conspiring to overturn the 2020 election and concluding that the evidence was sufficient to obtain and sustain a conviction at trial had Trump not won re-election

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Jack Smith indicts Trump on four counts for conspiring to overturn the 2020 election

Special Counsel Jack Smith charged Donald Trump on August 1, 2023, with four felony counts for running a multi-state scheme to keep himself in power after losing the 2020 presidential election

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Jack Smith charges Trump with 37 felonies for keeping classified documents at Mar-a-Lago

Federal prosecutors charged former President Donald Trump on June 8, 2023, with 31 counts under the Espionage Act for willfully retaining national defense secrets and six additional counts for obstructing the government's retrieval effort

Jan. 6 committee referred Trump on four criminal charges and explained why each matters

On December 19, 2022, the House Select Committee voted unanimously to refer Donald Trump to the Justice Department for criminal prosecution on four counts — obstruction, conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to make a false statement, and aiding an insurrection

Supreme Court immunity ruling forces Jack Smith to drop Trump prosecutions

Special counsel abandons January 6 and classified documents cases after ruling shields presidential acts

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Cannon dismissed the Trump classified documents case using an Appointments Clause argument no court had accepted before

Judge Aileen Cannon threw out a 40-count federal indictment against Donald Trump on July 15, 2024, ruling that Attorney General Merrick Garland lacked the constitutional authority to appoint Jack Smith as special counsel