Good Morning Britain’s usual schedule was taken over on Tuesday morning, after political correspondent Ranvir Singh halted proceedings to launch into a sudden “breaking news” alert.
With an urgency that demanded attention, she veered off her regular news script to update viewers on a bombshell update on the controversial election “fix” allegations, following the new President-elect Donald Trump‘s defeat to Joe Biden back in 2020.
The ripple effect of those claims has culminated in a Department of Justice report that indicates possible legal repercussions could have been in store for the businessman.
Reports show that Donald could have been convicted had he have not secured a win in the 2024 presidential election. A congressional report by special counsel Jack Smith has now concluded: “The admissible evidence was sufficient to obtain and sustain a conviction at trial.”
Moments earlier, Ranvir had been tackling the topic of the devastating wildfires lashing out across Los Angeles, USA, when the broadcast took a sharp turn with this latest American twist.
She broke in with: “Carrying on with news from America and breaking news this morning. US President-elect Donald Trump did act illegally in trying to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
“According to a new report, special counsel Jack Smith – who has since resigned from the Justice Department, ‘there was enough evidence to convict Donald Trump’ but the case was closed after Trump’s election victory in November.”
Jack Smith, the special counsel tasked with probing Donald in this and another matter, has now terminated his role. However, he has since managed to secure permission from Judge Aileen Cannon to make public the findings of his first initial report, reports the Manchester Evening News.
This 137-page report was delivered to Congress just past midnight on Tuesday (US Eastern Time). In the wake of this disclosure, the President-elect took to social media to proclaim his perspective, stating that the prosecutor “was unable to get his case tried before the election, which I won in a landslide”.
“THE VOTERS HAVE SPOKEN!,” Donald emphatically signed off.
Good Morning Britain airs weekdays, on ITV1, from 6am.
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