JUST IN: Jack Smith to Step Down as Special Counsel Before Trump Takes Office

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: MEDIAite

Nov 13th, 2024, 6:55 am


Special Counsel Jack Smith plans to step down before President-elect Donald Trump’s return to the White House.

Smith, the prosecutor who spearheaded two federal cases against Trump, intends to complete his work and leave his post before January, sources told the New York Times on Wednesday.

With Trump vowing to fire Smith “within two seconds” of his inauguration, the special counsel’s decision is partly strategic, ensuring his investigations conclude on his own terms. Smith’s goal, sources say, is to prevent a handover of unfinished business and avoid what he anticipates would be an immediate dismissal from Trump’s administration.

Appointed to the role two years ago, the New York Times reported that Trump’s imminent return threatened the viability of his investigations, prompting Smith to wind down his efforts in what he calls an “unprecedented circumstance.”

Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/news/just-in-jack-smith-to-step-down-as-special-counsel-before-trump-takes-office/

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[Lovie777]

1. Already knew that...................

[True Dough]

2. Don't blame him for bowing out

before Trump gets the pleasure of dismissing him. Hopefully Smith has a plan to ensure the critical details on Trump's crimes get into the public sphere.

[FakeNoose]

12. Agreed

He needs to protect himself and his family, who have been threatened publicly by MAGA-cult thugs.

Thank you Jack Smith! I'm sorry your country let you down, and I hope you write books. I hope you leak everything.

[toesonthenose]

3. If I were him I would not only step down, I would step away, like "out of the country" away.

[2naSalit]

10. He'll probably...

Return to The Hague and resume his position there, I would imagine.

[Irish_Dem]

4. One of the major reasons Trump had to "win" the election.

He had to make sure Jack Smith went bye bye.

[FBaggins]

5. It isn't just the threat of firing...

... He knows that he can't prosecute a sitting president. What's the alternative to wrapping things up? Pushing "pause" for four years and going quiet?

[Emile]

6. I hope he releases all his evidence against the traitor

before leaving.

[TomSlick]

19. A fulsome report would be a good start.

More likely to be read than pouring though evidence files.

[Emile]

21. After Garland redacts it for the public eye, we'll

be lucky to get two paragraphs.

[Botany]

7. The coup is almost complete now and the monster has won

America 1776 to 2025

[MissouriDem47]

11. The United States

Born: July 4, 1776
Died: November 5, 2024

[Magoo48]

14. He hasn't won shit yet.

How powerful his fascist state becomes is directly related to the power of our resistance. If the majority of us wait to see what will happen to us, things will become worse than if we are proactive in our resistance.

[TomSlick]

20. Where did you find the resistor symbol?

I've been looking for one I could copy.

Never mind. I managed to copy yours. Now if I can just use it for my icon or signature.

[Magoo48]

23. I borrowed it from somebody here on DU.

[Blue_Roses]

22. Thank-you!!

[crud]

16. When the Bush v Gore decision came down

I made a grave stone sign that had that day as the day democracy died. I still stand by that date. Showed up at the CA cap building with about 60 others to protest.

That date was the first time (that I remembered) that the Supreme Court ruled against voters voting.

[usaf-vet]

8. Despite setbacks, Smith remains committed to delivering a final report summarizing his findings, which will.......

....... be presented to Attorney General Merrick B. Garland.

TO BE BURIED IN THE VAULT OF UNPUBLISHED Attorney General's "reports."

I hope I'm wrong, but this is the world this Democracy SADLY lives in.

[Hope22]

13. To be stored in T's bathroom! Nt

[UT_democrat]

9. But Palmer Report said

He was the savior!

[orangecrush]

15. Congratulations on 145 posts

[ificandream]

17. Sad news.

The orange idiot has won.

[LudwigPastorius]

18. Fitzmas, Mueller Time, and now...

Jack Smith being cut off at the knees by the American electorate...

This country has had its chances to do the right thing time after time, and it dropped the ball.

Now the moral hazard payback is coming with Trump unbound.

Maybe it's time for a big rock from space to do a planetary reset.