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Departure from the Department of Justice of the prosecutor against Trump
The special prosecutor who prosecuted the proceedings against Trump has left the Justice Department, according to documents released Saturday.
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Published today at 11:18 p.m. Updated 7 minutes ago
Donald Trump at a campaign event in Milwaukee on October 1, 2024, and Jack Smith speaking to the media in Washington on August 1, 2023.
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The special prosecutor who investigated the two federal proceedings against Donald Trump, Jack Smith, left the Department of Justice after transmitting his report to the minister, Merrick Garland, according to court documents released Saturday.
The special prosecutor recommended and obtained at the end of November a halt to federal proceedings against Donald Trump for illegal attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 election, and for withholding classified documents after his departure from the White House.
After consultations, the Department of Justice concluded that its policy since the Watergate scandal in 1973, consisting of not prosecuting a sitting president, “applies to this unprecedented situation,” he explained.
Do not “cause harm” to two co-defendants
On the other hand, he finalized and sent his confidential report to the Minister of Justice on January 7 on his investigation of these two files.
The minister plans to make public the volume of the report on accusations of electoral interference in 2020 and transmit it to Congress.
However, he indicated that he would not publish the volume relating to the retention of classified documents by Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago property after his departure from the White House. And this, in order not to “harm” his two co-defendants who remain prosecuted in this case, his two personal assistants.
Jack Smith, a favorite target of Donald Trump’s attacks, left the Department of Justice on Friday, according to court documents presented Saturday before the Florida Federal Court competent in this case. This court temporarily blocked the publication of the report, at the request of Donald Trump’s two co-defendants, but the Department of Justice appealed this decision.
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