Jack Smith, Donald Trump’s special counsel, has resigned. He submitted his final report on January 10 and then left.
Special investigator Jack Smith, who prosecuted US President-elect Donald Trump, resigned from his position on Saturday and left the Department of Justice. This follows from the written statement of the prosecutor’s office. Smith has already announced his intention to resign before Trump’s inauguration. TASR writes according to AFP and AP agencies.
“The special counsel completed his work and submitted his final classified report on January 7, 2025, and left the department on January 10,” according to the document filed with U.S. District Judge Aileena Cannon. Smith’s final report.
In the near future, Cannon will decide again whether to keep the order not to publish Smith’s report in Trump’s two criminal cases.
He investigated two cases
The first is the investigation of Trump in connection with his participation in the attack by a mob on the Capitol on January 6, 2021. Trump’s sympathizers wanted to thwart the official process of confirming the election victory of Joe Biden with the attack. Trump was charged with criminal conspiracy in this case.
The second criminal case against Trump related to documents that he took from the White House to his private residence at Mar-a-Lago in Florida after the end of his previous term and refused to turn them over to the authorities until the FBI conducted a search of his home in the summer of 2022. In both cases, Smith dropped the allegations against Trump after his election in November’s presidential election. He referred to the long-standing practice of the US Department of Justice that US presidents are protected from criminal prosecution while in office.
Despite the dismissal of the charges, Smith’s investigative report was expected to be released by the Justice Department in the final days of outgoing President Joe Biden’s term, according to the AP. But federal judge Cannon, appointed by Trump during his first term in office, granted the defense’s request and temporarily suspended the release of the report. According to the judge, publication would harm two people who have not been dismissed in the case of secret documents, Trump’s butler Walt Nauta and the manager of his Florida residence Mar-a-Lago Carlos De Oliveira.
