It appears Jack Smith sees the writing on the wall after the American people delivered to Donald Trump a decisive election victory. A New York Times report citing Smith insiders claims the embattled illegally appointed Special Council is planning on closing his cases and retiring before Trump is sworn in on January 20, 2025.
An announcement by House Republicans that anyone involved in Trump investigations should preserve their communications hints at the possible fulfilment of a promise made by Steven Bannon, who himself faces more lawfare charges. He said, “the hunter will now become the hunted,” and this writer is inclined to agree with that assessment.
Jack Smith to resign and wind down cases against Trump before inauguration– www.washingtonexaminer.com
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Smith’s goal is not to leave any significant part of his work for others to complete and to get ahead of Trump’s promise to fire him within “two seconds” of being sworn in, according to sources close to Smith who spoke to the New York Times. Smith led two federal investigations against Trump, with one pertaining to his alleged mishandling of classified documents and the other focused on Trump’s efforts to subvert the results of the 2020 election and the subsequent deadly Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
This decision by Smith will make certain that the Department of Justice will follow through on its long-standing tradition of not investigating a sitting president for criminal acts.
It is not clear how quickly he and his team can finish his work on both cases, which makes it uncertain whether the investigations could be made public before President Joe Biden’s administration leaves office in January. Attorney General Merrick Garland has repeatedly implied he intends to release these reports to the public. Smith previously said he needed until Dec. 2 to decide exactly how to wind down both cases.
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