The American Special Research Office has confirmed this Saturday that investigates Jack Smith, the former special prosecutor who headed two federal investigations against Donald Trump, as suspected of having acted for political reasons in both cases against the then republican presidential applicant and now president of the country. As indicated by the Office, by the United States Foreign Trade Representative, Jamieson Greer, will examine whether Smith has violated the Hatch Law, which prohibits federal officials from carrying out political activities.
The former special and fiscal prosecutor against war crimes in the International Court of The Hague was appointed in 2022 by the then Secretary of Justice, Merrick Garland, to investigate two cases – now dismissed – against Trump. The first for his alleged participation in the attempts to prevent Joe Biden from being proclaimed president in 2021. Another, for the storage of documents classified in his private residence of Mar-A-Lago, in Florida, despite the US law that forces former presidents to deliver to the national archives all papers related to their mandate.
Both Smith and Garland have maintained again and again that neither the investigations nor any of the steps that were taken within them had any political motivation. During his electoral campaign, Trump recurrently claimed that he was being a victim of a witch hunt, orchestrated by his predecessor, Joe Biden, in the different legal cases against him to prevent him from returning to the White House.
The two cases in charge of Smith were worth Trump to be charged with two courts in Washington DC, for positions of attempted electoral puchezo, and in Florida, for illicit possession of classified documents. But both ended up being dismissed after Trump’s electoral triumph last November. Smith presented his resignation in January, after having resigned to continue the cases, since the Department of Justice does not act against the heads of state in exercise. But by withdrawing the charges he expressed his conviction that the evidence he had accumulated against the Republican were solid and the cases, valid.
The investigation against Smith has been open at the request of Republican Senator Tom Cotton (Arkansas), at the head of the Intelligence Commission of the Upper House and very close to the White House tenant.
In cases where the Special Investigation Office concludes that the suspicious official has violated the Hatch Law and has participated in political activities in his work, he moves the case to the President, now Trump himself. Usually the punishment ranges from a mere reprimand to the labor cessation, but Smith already resigned. It is very unusual for criminal measures to be taken.
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