Special Trump prosecutor resigns from US Justice Department
Jack Smith, the US Justice Department's Special Counsel who oversaw criminal investigations involving Donald Trump, has resigned from office.
He resigned from the Justice Department after submitting his two-volume investigative report on Trump, which he and his team had commenced in November 2022.
Following Trump's reelection in the November US presidential vote, Smith's likely resignation was predictable by experts.
The move came just days ahead of the president-elect's inauguration ceremony scheduled on January 20, marking Trump’s official return to the White House.
Smith, who had led two failed federal criminal cases against Trump, "separated from the Department," the DOJ announced on Saturday
DOJ regulations call for special counsels to produce reports at the conclusion of their work, and it's customary for such documents to be made public no matter the subject.
However, the fate of Smith and his team's two-volume report, which probes Trump's efforts to overturn the results of his 2020 US presidential election alongside his hoarding of top-secret documents at his Mar-a-Lago home, remains under a cloud of uncertainty.
The DOJ had been expected to release the investigations to the public in the final days of the Biden administration.
However, a Trump-appointed judge, who presided over the classified documents case, granted a defense request to at least temporarily postpone the release.
Attorney General Merrick Garland, in a letter to Congress on Wednesday, informed lawmakers that Special Council Smith had concluded his investigations on Trump, and they would be made public.
"The Attorney General is the Senate-confirmed head of the Department of Justice and is vested with the authority to supervise all officers and employees of the Department," the Justice Department said.
"The Attorney General thus has authority to decide whether to release an investigative report prepared by his subordinates."
Trump, for his part, repeatedly threatened Smith that he would fire him upon his return to power. The president-elect told the prosecutor that he deserved to be "thrown out of the country."
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