President-elect Donald Trump unleashed on “deranged” Special Counsel Jack Smith in a furious early morning post on TruthSocial after the Department of Justice released a damning report alleging the he attempted to criminally overturn the 2020 election.

President-elect Trump hammered Special Counsel Jack Smith following the prosecutor’s public release of his final report in the election subversion case, calling him a “lamebrain prosecutor.”

Trump had been indicted in August 2023 on charges of working to overturn the election, but the case was delayed by appeals and ultimately significantly narrowed by a conservative-majority Supreme Court, which held for the first time that former presidents enjoy sweeping immunity from criminal prosecution for official acts.

Smith's report provides new details about election-interference charges against Trump, says he believes election victory saved him from conviction.

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Donald Trump lashed out at Jack Smith in a borderline incoherent late-night rant ... and how completely guilty Nancy Pelosi, and others, were.” And that was just the first sentence. After Trump refused to concede his 2020 election to President Joe ...

The world has now been able to read Special Counsel Jack Smith’s final report regarding ... and how completely guilty Nancy Pelosi, and others, were,” Trump posted in early Tuesday morning.

Damning report says president-elect used 'knowingly false claims of election fraud' in bid to cling onto power after 2020 election defeat

“Deranged Jack Smith... is a lamebrain prosecutor who was unable to get his case tried before the Election, which I won in a landslide,” Trump said. US president-elect Donald Trump, who will take office on 20 January, has hit out at Nancy Pelosi in a ...