Trump’s former prosecutor Jack Smith, now under special advice investigation
Bridgewater, NJ (AP)-A independent surveillance agency responsible for enforcing a law against partisan political activity by federal employees has opened an investigation into Jack Smith, the special advisor of the Department of Justice who presented two criminal cases against Donald Trump with the candidate before his choice to the White House last year.
The Special Advisor Office confirmed on Saturday that he was investigating Smith about the accusations that he participated in political activities through his investigations on Trump. Smith was appointed special lawyer for then Attorney General Merrick Garland in November 2022 and his special lawyer title is completely different from the agency that now investigates it. The office has no criminal application power, but has the authority to impose fines and other sanctions for violations.
It was not clear what base exists to affirm that Smith’s investigations were of a political nature or that he violated the Hatch Law, a federal law that prohibits certain public officials participating in political activities. Senator Tom Cotton, republican of Arkansas, had encouraged earlier this week to analyze Smith’s activities and claimed that his behavior was designed to help the president Joe Biden and his vice president Kamala Harris, both Democrats.
Smith brought two cases against Trump, one accusing him of conspiring to revoke the results of the 2020 presidential elections and the other to monopolize documents classified on his Mar-A-Lago farm in Florida. Both were brought in 2023, more than a year before the presidential elections of 2024, and the accusations in both cases cited what Smith and his team described as clear violations of the well -established federal law. Garland has repeatedly said that politics did not play any role in managing cases.
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Both cases were abandoned by Smith after Trump’s victory in November, with the prosecutor citing a long data policy of the Department of Justice that prohibits the accusation of a acting president.
There were no immediate indications that the same office that investigated Smith had opened investigations on the Special Councils of the Department of Justice that were appointed by Garland to investigate Biden and his son Hunter.
The White House did not have immediate comments on Smith research, which was first informed by the New York Post.
The office has been divided by the leadership tumult during the last year. A previous boss, Hampton Dellinger, was abruptly fired by the Trump administration and initially demanded to recover his work before leaving the judicial fight. Trump’s commercial representative Jamieson Greer also serves as an interim special advisor.
Trump selected as his replacement Paul Ingrassia, a former right -wing podcast presenter who praised the influential criminal Andrew Tate as an “extraordinary human being” and promoted the false statement that the 2020 elections were handled. A Senate panel considered its nomination at an audience last month, but was taken from the agenda.
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Tucker reported from Washington.