Special counsel Jack Smith’s final report asserted federal prosecutors lacked grounds to charge President-elect Donald Trump with incitement for the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol Hill protests, while it also said there was not a significant enough amount of fraud that it altered the outcome of the 2020 presidential election.
The Smith report’s concession on incitement is significant, since the Democrat-led House impeached Trump for “incitement of insurrection” regarding the Jan. 6 protest when a pro-Trump mob illegally entered the Capitol building. In 2022, the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6 Attack on the Capitol issued a report accusing Trump of incitement several times.
“The office determined that there were reasonable arguments to be made that Mr. Trump’s Ellipse Speech incited the violence at the Capitol on January 6,” said the Smith…
