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President-elect Trump conducted a further investigation into Jack Smith after the Department of Justice released him the former special counsel’s report early Tuesday
Attorney General Merrick Garland released the first volume, which focuses on the election case against Trump, of Smith’s report at midnight Tuesday after going back and forth through the federal court system. The report was released at midnight because that’s when the original hold on Volume 1 expired. However, the timing prompted a heated response from Trump.
“To show you how desperate Deranged Jack Smith is, he released his fake findings at 1:00am. He said the Deselection Committee illegally destroyed and deleted all the evidence,” Trump posted in Social Truth.
In another post, Trump rejected Smith’s report, saying it was based on information gathered by the Jan. 6 House Select Committee, which was formed in July 2021 to investigate Capitol Hill misconduct. of the United States earlier this year by Trump supporters who rioted before the president. Biden took office on January 20. The Jan. 6 committee investigation was conducted when Democrats controlled the House and all of its members were appointed by then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.
A split image with US Attorney General Merrick Garland, President Donald Trump and Special Counsel Jack Smith. (Ting Shen/Bloomberg via Getty Images | Photo by Rebecca Noble/Getty Images | Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
Trump also repeated his claim that Smithwho resigned last week, acted under orders from President Biden to prosecute the president’s political opponents.
“Jack is a lame-duck prosecutor who failed to try his case before the election, which I won in a landslide,” Trump wrote.
In a letter to Garland last week, Smith called it “ridiculous” that Trump believed the Biden administration, or other political actors, influenced or directed his decisions as a prosecutor, saying he was guided by the Principles of federal prosecutor’s office
“Trump’s cases represented those ‘in which the crime (was) the most egregious, the public harm the greatest, and the evidence the most certain,'” Smith said, referring to the principles.
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Special prosecutor Jack Smith recently asked to dismiss the charges he brought against Trump in a case over his interference in the certification of the 2020 election. (Bill O’Leary/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
In the lengthy report, Smith said his office fully supports the decision to bring criminal charges against Trump because he “resorted to a series of criminal efforts to retain power” after losing the 2020 election.
Smith said in his conclusion that the parties were determining whether any material in the “superseding indictment was subject to presidential immunity” when it became clear that Trump had won the 2024 election. At the time, the department determined that the case had to be dismissed before taking office because of how he interprets the Constitution.
“The Department’s view that the Constitution prohibits the continued impeachment and prosecution of a President is categorical and not based on the seriousness of the crimes charged, the strength of the Government’s proof, or the merits of the prosecution. , which the Office fully supports,” the report said.
Garland named ex Department of Justice official Jack Smith as special counsel in November 2022.
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Former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida was raided by the FBI in 2022. (Getty Images)
Smith, a former assistant U.S. attorney and head of the DOJ’s public integrity section, led the investigation into Trump’s withholding of classified documents after leaving the White House and whether the former president obstructed the federal government investigation into the matter.
Smith was also tasked with overseeing the investigation into whether Trump or other officials and entities interfered with the peaceful transfer of power after the 2020 presidential election, including the certification of the Electoral College vote on January 6 2021
Smith accused Trump in both cases, but Trump pleaded not guilty.
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The classified records case was dismissed in July 2024 by U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, Judge Aileen Cannon, who ruled that Smith was illegally appointed as special counsel.
Smith sued Trump in the US District Court for Washington DC in his 2020 election case, but after Trump was elected president, Smith sought to dismiss the case. Judge Tanya Chutkan granted that request.
Fox News Digital’s Brooke Singman, Emma Colton and Julia Johnson contributed to this report.
