Mr. Trump has declared on Truth Social that Mr. Smith “should be prosecuted for election interference & prosecutorial misconduct.” The president has also called him a “career criminal.” He also reposted the radio host Mark Levin’s view that “Jack Smith must go to prison.”
Donald Trump repeatedly slammed special counsel Jack Smith as a “moron” in the second part of a lengthy interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity that aired Thursday. The president also blamed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky for the war in his country, even though it was Russia that invaded Ukraine.
The Trump appointee said the DOJ couldn’t justify “the purportedly urgent desire” to share information about the ongoing criminal case.
Judge Aileen Cannon is blocking top lawmakers from privately viewing a report on the classified documents case
The first part of former Special Counsel Jack Smith’s report on his now-closed investigations into President-elect Trump was released Tuesday, days before he will be sworn into office.
The so-called documents case refers to Smith's probe into whether Trump left the White House in 2021 with classified documents.
The Justice Department has asked a federal appeals court to move swiftly in reversing a judge’s order that had blocked the agency from releasing any part of special counsel Jack Smith’s investigative report on Donald Trump.
The first volume of special counsel Jack Smith's report on the 2020 election case against President Trump was released last week.
Six months after she dismissed the classified documents case against Donald Trump, U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon can now decide whether to squash the release of Jack Smith's report, too.
Jack Smith's report says prosecutors could have convicted Trump had his election win not prevented the case from proceeding.
Smith’s letter cited John Adams for the “fundamental value of our democracy that we exist as ‘a government of laws, and not of men.’” But our prized “rule of law” must inevitably be administered by men and women who are subject to being undermined by political attack.