President-elect Donald Trump would have been convicted of illegally trying to overturn the result of the 2020 presidential election – which he lost – if he had not successfully been re-elected in 2024, according to a Department of Justice report released to Congress. The admissible evidence was sufficient to obtain and sustain a conviction at trial, the report by Special Counsel Jack Smith said. Smith is “deranged” and his findings are “fake”, Trump said after the report was released. Trump was accused of pressurising officials to reverse the 2020 result, knowingly spreading lies about election fraud and seeking to exploit the riot at the US Capitol on 6 January 2021. He denied any wrongdoing. Trump, who was president at the time of the alleged crimes, subsequently spent four years out of office – but was successfully re-elected to the White House in November. He will return to the presidency next week.
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