{"id":125471,"date":"2024-11-13T20:12:46","date_gmt":"2024-11-13T13:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=125471"},"modified":"2024-11-13T20:12:46","modified_gmt":"2024-11-13T13:12:46","slug":"special-counsel-jack-smith-and-his-team-to-resign-before-trump-takes-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=125471","title":{"rendered":"Special counsel Jack Smith and his team to resign before Trump takes office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"\">WASHINGTON \u2014 Special counsel Jack Smith and his team plan to resign before President-elect Donald Trump takes office, a source familiar with the matter said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Smith\u2019s office has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2024-election\/doj-moving-wind-trump-criminal-cases-takes-office-rcna178930\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">evaluating the best path for winding down its work on the two outstanding federal criminal cases against Trump<\/a>, as the Justice Department\u2019s longstanding position is that it cannot charge a sitting president with a crime.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/11\/13\/us\/politics\/jack-smith-special-counsel.html?smtyp=cur&amp;smid=tw-nytimes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Times<\/a> first reported Smith will step down.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The looming question in the weeks ahead is whether Smith&#8217;s final report, detailing his charging decisions, will be made public before Inauguration Day. The special counsel&#8217;s office is required under Justice Department regulations to provide a confidential report to Attorney General Merrick Garland, who can choose to make it public.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">In late October, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2024-election\/trump-says-fire-jack-smith-two-seconds-elected-rcna177025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trump said in a radio interview that he would immediately fire Smith<\/a> as special counsel if re-elected. \u201cIt\u2019s so easy \u2014 I would fire him within two seconds,\u201d Trump said, adding that he got \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/supreme-court\/supreme-court-rules-trump-may-immunity-federal-election-inter-rcna149135\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">immunity at the Supreme Court<\/a>.&#8221; The next attorney general could decide not to release Smith&#8217;s final report as well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Before Trump\u2019s re-election last week, Smith and his team had continued moving forward in their election interference case against Trump. After Trump\u2019s victory, however, a federal judge overseeing the case agreed to give the special counsel\u2019s office until <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2024-election\/special-counsel-jack-smith-seeks-pause-trumps-election-interference-cr-rcna179335\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dec<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2024-election\/special-counsel-jack-smith-seeks-pause-trumps-election-interference-cr-rcna179335\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">.<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2024-election\/special-counsel-jack-smith-seeks-pause-trumps-election-interference-cr-rcna179335\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> 2<\/a> to decide how to proceed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The Justice Department <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/donald-trump\/trump-indicted-jan-6-grand-jury-2020-election-rcna95199\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/donald-trump\/trump-indicted-jan-6-grand-jury-2020-election-rcna95199\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dicted Trump <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/donald-trump\/trump-indicted-jan-6-grand-jury-2020-election-rcna95199\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">last year<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/donald-trump\/trump-indicted-jan-6-grand-jury-2020-election-rcna95199\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <\/a>for his efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. But Smith&#8217;s case was hampered early on by appeals from Trump&#8217;s legal team<strong> <\/strong>and then in July of this year by the Supreme Court&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/supreme-court\/live-blog\/trump-immunity-supreme-court-ruling-live-updates-rcna159539\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ruling that he has immunity\u00a0<\/a>for some acts he took as president. In August, Smith&#8217;s team re-tooled the indictment \u2014 stripping it of certain evidence the high court said was off limits and a federal grand jury <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/justice-department\/trump-indicted-federal-election-interference-case-supreme-court-immuni-rcna168503\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">returned a superseding indictment in the case<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The Justice Department had also charged Trump in Florida with allegedly hoarding classified documents after he left office and then refusing to give them back. But a federal judge dismissed\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/donald-trump\/trump-says-truth-social-indicted-classified-docs-probe-rcna79343\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the case in July, <\/a>saying Smith&#8217;s appointment was illegal. That case remains on appeal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">When the former president was first indicted, Smith said he would move quickly to trial, but Trump&#8217;s legal team successfully sought to delay in both cases while then-candidate Trump routinely lambasted Smith at his rallies and online.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The election-interference case in Washington was narrowly focused on Trump, but an open question remains as to whether any unnamed co-conspirators referenced in the indictments face future legal jeopardy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"endmark\">There\u2019s no Justice Department norm for alleged criminal conspirators to avoid being prosecuted because they are connected to an incoming president, or because that future president is likely to pardon them.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"expanded-byline-contributors articleBylineContainer\">\n<div class=\"expanded-byline article-expanded-byline\" data-activity-map=\"expanded-byline-article-bottom\">\n<div class=\"byline-thumbnail 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