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Even if all charges against President-elect Donald Trump have been dropped, special counsel Jack Smith may not be exonerated.
Calls for a probe into Smith’s actions were rekindled on Monday when he decided to drop his lawsuits against Trump. Some aren’t prepared.
To dismiss Smith’s months-long pursuit now that the threat has passed, even if it’s unclear whether questioning Smith is high enough on Trump’s priority list to turn words into action.
Former federal prosecutor Andrew Cherkasky told the Daily Caller News Foundation that it is crucial to look into the federal charges against Trump “because of the huge cost and ultimate failure.”
It’s doubtful that it will result in criminal charges. But I believe it will discover that Smith’s new defense strategy was riddled with problems.
That ought to have caused a reasonable prosecutor to drop charges,” Cherkasky told the DCNF. “Smith is already resigning from his position as special counsel,
But I expect that some of his attorneys will also be fired from the [Department of Justice] DOJ for participating in a prosecution that is not legally sound.”
According to DOJ records, Smith’s two Trump cases cost taxpayers more than $50 million. (RELATED: Judge Approves Jack Smith’s Motion to Drop Trump Case)
Cherkasky pointed out that there is enough proof that the congressional Jan. 6 committee purposefully omitted information that would support Trump’s viewpoint, and if Smith followed like, his actions may be subject to harsher penalties. On X Monday,
The Heritage Oversight Project announced that they were working on a “model indictment” against Smith. Although he told the DCNF that there are “other potential avenues as well,”
Executive Director Mike Howell said that Smith may be prosecuted under the federal legislation that forbids a conspiracy to violate an individual’s civil rights.
Mike Davis, the president of the Article III Project, wrote on X on Monday that “Jack Smith and his office must face severe legal, political,
And financial consequences for their blatant lawfare and election interference.” “Under 18 U.S.C. ยง 241, this includes a federal criminal investigation for conspiracy against rights.”
The same conspiracy against rights legislation was used to support one of Smith’s accusations against Trump.
The assistant director of the Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at the Heritage Foundation, Charles Stimson, noted that Trump did not target Hillary.
Clinton or anybody implicated in the Russia connection story during his first term. “Here, the past is prologue,” he informed the DCNF. According to Stimson, Pam Bondi,
Trump’s choice for attorney general, will have more urgent concerns to attend to, including preserving free speech and illegal immigrants who have committed crimes in the United States.
Given that government workers, even prosecutors like Smith, are immune from prosecution for acts performed while on the job,
It is unlikely that she will be investigating the past. Stimson said, “I don’t think they’re going to spend a tremendous amount of time deciding.
Whether or not to prosecute Jack Smith, who will not be working for the Justice Department.” It’s also feasible that Congress will decide to look into Smith.
In a letter dated November 8, Republican Georgia Representative Barry Loudermilk and House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan instructed Smith’s staff to save any documents pertaining to the Trump prosecutions.
Smith was also placed on notice to preserve documents by a letter from Republican senators Ron Johnson of Wisconsin and Chuck Grassley of Iowa.
In the letter dated November 13, Grassley and Johnson said that “the preservation of Special Counsel Smith’s records
Is more important than ever due to the apparent political bias of FBI officials that were involved in the genesis of a case against former President Trump.”
“It is imperative that a politically charged case be opened properly and without any political bias.”