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Jack Smith, Special Counsel In Trump Cases, Resigns

Jan 11, 2025

imrs — Special counsel Jack Smith announces indictment of former president Donald Trump during a news conference in D.C. on Aug. 1, 2023. (Ricky Carioti/The Washington Post)

By Perry Stein and Jeremy Roebuck

Special counsel Jack Smith is no longer working at the Justice Department, according to a Saturday court filing.

The news came in a court motion filed with U.S. District Judge Aileen M. Cannon, pushing back on a request from President-elect Donald Trump and his former co-defendants asking her to extend a court order that she issued temporarily barring the release of Smith’s report. Smith’s departure has been expected.

Smith, who has overseen the two federal prosecutions of Trump, submitted the final report detailing the findings of the investigations to Attorney General Merrick Garland late Tuesday night.

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