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?
Please…
Do you really think everything he did was 100% legit?
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Even if it was, he better keep his records because you never know who might sue him. No records, and the plaintiff has the upper hand automatically. And, the suit could be for something he had full right to do as a special prosecutor. But, not records… no defense.
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 .”
I remember a command from Shrek to the fairly tale creatures…”Get out of my swamp!” He’s bailing before he gets the boot, he’ll probably get a job at CNN.
I would like to see him tied up in court for a couple of years to bankrupt him and then jail.
This smutbag prosecutor better get a plane ticket to a communist country far, far away. Trump’s FBI is coming for him after 1/20.
Yeah we should definitely be allowed to read the $50m report.
Transparency is key to success
I’m with CMBTTek: he better have kept his records. Each email, printed memo, chat, text message. Everything. Lawyer up now, Jacky boy. Prepare to go to court, prepare to be disbarred. They’re going to love you in the federal penitentiary.
Imagine that! Rats scurrying off a sinking ship!