Jack Smith, the special counsel who investigated Donald Trump over alleged attempts to subvert the 2020 election result, found that the president-elect engaged in an “unprecedented criminal effort to overturn the legitimate results of the election in order to retain power” after losing the 2020 election to Joseph Biden, but that Trump’s victory on November 5 of last year prevented the prosecution from moving forward because of Justice Department policy prohibiting the prosecution of a sitting president. That’s according to a 137-page report released on Tuesday that holds that there was enough evidence to get Trump convicted at a trial.

Smith, who has been the target of relentless criticism by Trump, also defended his investigation and the prosecutors who worked on it. “The claim from Mr. Trump that my decisions as a prosecutor were influenced or directed by the Biden administration or other political actors is, in a word, laughable,” Smith wrote in a letter detailing his report, sent to Congress after midnight on Tuesday.

After the report’s release, Trump, in a post on his Truth Social site, called Smith a “a lamebrain prosecutor who was unable to get his case tried before the Election, which I won in a landslide.” Much of the evidence cited in the report had been previously made public. A second section of the report, which deals with separate charges against Trump for mishandling sensitive classified documents after leaving the White House in 2021, has remained...

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