Special Counsel Jack Smith has resigned from the DOJ just ten days before Donald Trump’s inauguration. Smith’s resignation is no surprise, as Trump was ready to fire him immediately after taking office.
Smith was investigating Trump both for his role in the riot at the Capitol on January 6, 2021, and for retaining classified documents at Mar-a-Lago.
The DOJ dismissed both cases after Trump’s historic election win in November.
Trump raged against Smith on TRUTH Social over the weekend.
“The Stench of Deranged Jack Smith and his thugs is GONE,” Trump posted. “They were sent packing after spending over $100,000,000, destroying the lives of many people and families, who will never be the same again. Deranged Jack accomplished nothing, except to show what complete losers my political opponents are!!!”
In a follow-up post on TRUTH, Trump railed against Smith preparing to issue a final report on his investigation into Donald Trump.
“Why would Deranged Jack Smith be allowed to issue a ‘report’ on a complete and total Witch Hunt against me, strictly for political purposes, when he was thrown off the case and ultimately dismissed by the DOJ,” Trump posted. “Therefore, to put it nicely, he was illegitimately involved in this political persecution, and all of the hundreds of millions of dollars spent by our hapless government were, simply put, wasted! He has already filled thousands of rejected statements and documents against me, which were a “joke,” and the public just voted for me, in a landslide, to be their President!”
From The Hill:
The Department of Justice has been pushing to release Smith’s final report on his investigation into the president-elect.
However, there has been a recent legal battle with Trump and his two co-defendants in the Mar-a-Lago documents case, who have pressed to halt the release of the volume of the former special counsel’s report on the documents case and another reviewing the president-elect’s attempts to block the transfer of power after the 2020 presidential election.
has said he is not going to release the Mar-a-Lago volume of Smith’s report because of an ongoing case against the two co-defendants of the president-elect.
However, a move earlier in the week by the two co-defendants has resulted in the slowed release of the rest of the report, with the men turning to U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon for help. Cannon blocked the release of the report for an extra three days following a ruling from the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals. The defendants had also turned to the 11th Circuit for help, but the appeals court did not go ahead with an emergency motion to block the release of the report.
President-elect Trump: Jack Smith shouldn’t be allowed to release report https://t.co/gRMZOR3IvM
— The Hill (@thehill) January 13, 2025
