With just 10 days before his job was likely to end, Special Counsel Jack Smith resigned from his appointed position at the Department of Justice, where he has spent the past four years investigating President Donald Trump, accusing him as late as this week of being the head of one or more criminal conspiracies and attempting on Jan. 6, 2021 to overturn the 2020 certification of the election of Joe Biden.
When Donald Trump takes office, he will be ensuring the Department of Justice has a thorough house cleaning.
The resignation was noted in a footnote on a motion Smith submitted to U.S. District Court Judge Aileen Cannon on Saturday, and indicated his last day was Friday, which calls into question his Saturday filing.
“The Special Counsel completed his work and submitted his final confidential report on January 7, 2025, and separated from the Department on January 10,” said the footnote on the report, which appears to be over 200 pages long.
Neither of Smith’s cases against Trump reached trial. Trump says he is innocent of the charges, which he says are a political witch-hunt.
While Trump has urged the court to not allow the report’s release due to the disruptive impact on the transfer of power, and argues that it would be in violation of the Presidential Transition act and Presidential Immunity Doctrine, Smith is asking that the judge not extend her current temporary injunction on the report.
Some observers believe that it will ultimately be leaked by the Deep State inside the Justice Department.
In December, Smith saw the writing on the wall and moved to have his case against Trump dismissed, but he still wants the report released, for the political purpose of damaging the returning President Trump.
The special counsel investigation of Trump has cost taxpayers $50 million.
Statement of Expenditures, October 1, 2023 – March 31, 2024
Statement of Expenditures, April 1, 2023 through September 30, 2023
Statement of Expenditures, November 18, 2022 – March 31, 2023
Keep all your records Jack.
Why? For his trial?
Don’t let the door hit you in your brains on the way out, “greg” is going to be so sad today.
Lost another one of his heroes!
Like Ray Charles so eloquently said, ” Hit the Road Jack, and Don’t You Come Back, No More, No More .”