NOTUS: “Halfway into the 137-page report, Smith described how prosecutors considered criminal charges holding Trump directly responsible for the attacks but concluded it would add too much ‘risk’ to their case.” From the report: “The office recognized why courts described the attack on the Capitol as an ‘insurrection,’ but it was also aware of the litigation risk that would be presented by employing this long-dormant statute.” “One barrier was t…

Political Wire

New York

United States

Why Trump Wasn’t Charged With ‘Insurrection’

Evidence shows Trump ‘caused and benefited’ from the violent attack. The law and the country weren’t prepared for a case showing how a sitting president, not an outside force, could be responsible, Alex Woodward reports

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The Independent

Evgeny Lebedev

London

Greater London

England

United Kingdom

Why didn’t Jack Smith charge Trump with insurrection?

Jack Smith explained that he didn't indict President-elect Donald Trump on insurrection charges because he could not prove Jan. 6 was more than a riot.

The Daily Caller

Tucker Carlson

Neil Patel

Washington

District of Columbia

Jack Smith Report Undermines Left’s Jan 6 ‘Insurrection’ Narrative, Exposes Lack Of Evidence

Prosecutors had a mountain of evidence — but a series of key obstacles got in their way.

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Roberts family

Verizon Communications

Why Donald Trump Wasn’t Charged With Insurrection

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Ever since Donald Trump was indicted in the federal election interference case in 2023, a lingering question has been why special counsel Jack Smith didn’t charge him under the Insurrection Act.

MSNBC

Why Jack Smith didn’t charge Trump with insurrection

Attorney General Merrick Garland has released Volume I of Jack Smith's report, which focuses on the January 6 prosecution of Trump. Smith addresses one of the lingering questions: why did he not charge Trump with violating the federal insurrection statute (18 U.S.C. § 2383). In early 2021, Seth Barrett Tillman and I wrote an article anticipating a prosecution based on Section 2283, but that case would never come. First, Smith explains that there…

Reason

Reason Foundation

Jack Smith Explains Why He Did Not Charge Trump With Insurrection

The law simply wasn’t prepared for a sitting president who would attempt to steal an election.

The Atlantic

Laurene Powell Jobs

Why Didn’t Jack Smith Charge Trump With Insurrection?

Tucked into ex-Special Counsel Jack Smith’s 137-page report on Donald Trump’s 2020 self-coup attempt, he explores a question that’s hung in the background of the case: Why wasn’t Trump ever charged with insurrection?

Talking Points Memo

Josh Marshall

Smith Considered Charging Trump With Insurrection. The Law Wasn’t Ready.

Historians studying January 6 will no doubt mark the absence of any conviction — or even a charge — of insurrection despite all we heard about it from the sages of the law.

The New York Sun

The Insurrection That Wasn’t

Special counsel Jack Smith asserts in his report that Trump never believed the 2020 election was fraudulent and made “knowingly false claims."

Why Trump Wasn’t Charged With ‘Insurrection’

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