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The special prosecutor who investigated the two federal proceedings against Donald Trump, Jack Smith, left the Department of Justice after submitting his report. At the end of November, he called for an end to federal prosecutions against the elected American president.
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January 11, 2025 – 11:37 p.m.
(Keystone-ATS) The proceedings concerned Mr. Trump’s illegal attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election and the withholding of classified documents following the Republican’s 2021 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”, the special prosecutor explained in his request for stop the prosecution.
Publication blocked
He finalized and sent his confidential report to Justice Minister Merrick Garland on January 7 on his investigation of these two cases, according to court documents published Saturday. 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, so as not to “prejudice” the two co-defendants. , who remain prosecuted in this case, the two personal assistants of the Republican billionaire.
Jack Smith, favored target of Donald Trump’s attacks, left the Department of Justice on Friday, according to court documents presented Saturday in 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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