Posted on 11/06/2024 11:19:14 AM PST by bitt
Special counsel Jack Smith is in active talks with senior leadership at the Justice Department evaluating ways he can end his prosecutions of President-elect Donald Trump, sources familiar with the matter told ABC News.
The decision is based on longstanding Department of Justice policy that a sitting president cannot face criminal prosecution while in office, sources said.
It is unclear as of today how Smith’s prosecutors will approach dismissing both the federal election subversion case in Washington, D.C., and their ongoing appeal of Judge Aileen Cannon’s dismissal of the classified documents case.
Trump has vowed to fire Smith "within two seconds."
"We got immunity at the Supreme Court. It's so easy. I would fire him within two seconds. He'll be one of the first things addressed," Trump said on a call into the "Hugh Hewitt Show" on Oct. 24.
But due to Justice Department policy of not prosecuting a president, a firing is unneeded.
Smith was appointed to his position by Attorney General Merrick Garland in November 2022 to investigate Trump and his allies' efforts to overturn the 2020 election as well as Trump's alleged unlawful possession of highly classified documents he took from his time in the White House.
On June 8, 2023, Smith indicted Trump on charges he unlawfully retained classified documents and obstructed the government's efforts to retrieve them. Trump pleaded not guilty to the charges in a federal court in Florida.
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America’s KGB needs to be dismantled.
Like in 5 minutes from now?
Left is calling for banket Pardons for all PA’s in the Gov.
That guy better hope he ends up in prison where citizens cannot tar and feather him into an unrecognizable ball.
Coward getting out before he’s FIRED.
He needs to go to peison for impersonating a government official and harrassment under color of law.
If they can just flip the off-switch given changes in the political landscape, that means it was politically motivated to begin with. Would they do this if Trump was being investigated for trafficking plane loads of heroin?
Fire him anyway.
Sue him for fraud against the USA.
DOX his ass.....see how THEY like it
Furthermore, Alvin Bragg called Trump to concede and E. Jean Carroll has admitted she might have mistaken Trump for someone else.
;-)
Oh no, you worm. You don’t get to hide.
Their insane charges helped Trump to win his election.
Fire him for being a publicity-seeking ahole.
How about just drop the case? Easy peasy. That’s within the prosecutor’s discretion.
Hearing Tish James and Hochel doing their lil pity party on TV right now was so delicious..two sacks of sh*t who know they are DONE
Jack Smith should be brought up on election interference charges and made an example of. America should never have to put up with this crap.
On that, Smith et al should be disbarred.
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