Goodbye and good riddance…
Special counsel Jack Smith will finish up his work and resign from his position before President-elect Trump is sworn in.
Smith is aiming to bring to an end his cases against Trump and step down before the presidential inauguration as a way to get ahead of the Republican’s promise to fire him “within two seconds.”
Trump has pointed to a Supreme Court immunity ruling from this summer that broadened the criteria for official presidential conduct ineligible for prosecution even after a president is no longer in office.
Smith has been evaluating how to wind down both the 2020 election interference case and the separate classified documents case before Trump takes office, Fox News reported last week.
Longstanding Justice Department policy says sitting presidents cannot be prosecuted while in office.
Smith on Friday filed a motion to vacate all deadlines in the 2020 election interference case against Trump in Washington, D.C., a widely expected move, but one that stops short of dropping the case against him completely.
Smith is required under DOJ regulations to submit a report of his findings and an explanation of the charges the prosecutor considered and ultimately filed – even though neither case made it to trial.
However, it’s not clear whether Attorney General Merrick Garland would make that report public before the end of President Biden’s term or defer to the incoming Trump administration, according to the Times.
Sources close to the matter told the Times that Smith has no intention of dragging his feet, and has informed career prosecutors and FBI agents on his team not directly involved in preparing the report that they can plan their exits in the coming weeks.
Run little jack – with your tail betwixt your legs since most (all?) folks realized long ago that you were engaged in a witch hunt. OTOH, how much tax payer money did you manage to bilk out of the treasury? I suspect it was a substantial amount and added to whatever the dems promised you I imagine you are pretty well set for life.
50 MILLION of our money wasted by that jerk on his various Biden/DOJ generated witch hunts.
Same for FBI Head Wray too
The FBI head Wray is effectively (to coin a phrase) a dead man walking in regard to his current employment and he is not, by far, the only one in this partisan FBI. Resume writers are going to have a big year.