Former special counsel Jack Smith used his final report to counter years of claims from President-elect Trump while peeling back the curtain on how he approached the unprecedented case.

The early Tuesday morning release of the volume of Smith’s report dealing with Trump’s efforts to thwart the peaceful transfer of power after the 2020 election gave the special counsel a chance to get the last word on a prosecution cut short by Trump’s reelection.

The document lays bare much of Smith’s inner thoughts on how to approach the case, how to go about charging Trump, how to respond to threats and how to handle charges against his co-conspirators.

Smith says prosecution was not politically motivated

With the end of the case allowing Smith to speak more candidly about his investigation, the special counsel called many of Trump’s insults throughout the years “laughable.”

“While I relied greatly on the counsel, judgment, and advice of our team, I want it to be clear that the ultimate decision to bring charges against Mr. Trump was mine,” Smith wrote in a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland accompanying the volume of the report.

“Nobody within the Department of Justice ever sought to interfere with, or improperly influence, my........

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