By Free Republic | Created at 2024-11-06 19:25:20 | Updated at 2024-11-06 21:33:59
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Special counsel Jack Smith expected to wind down Trump prosecutions: Sources (VIDEO)
https://abcnews.go.com ^ | 11/6/2024 | Pierre Thomas and Alexander Mallin
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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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: jacksmith; trumpprosecutions
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1 posted on 11/06/2024 11:19:14 AM PST by bitt
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2 posted on 11/06/2024 11:19:59 AM PST by bitt (<img src=' 'width=30%>)
To: bitt
America’s KGB needs to be dismantled.
3 posted on 11/06/2024 11:20:25 AM PST by PGR88
To: bitt
Like in 5 minutes from now?
4 posted on 11/06/2024 11:21:05 AM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
To: bitt
Left is calling for banket Pardons for all PA’s in the Gov.
5 posted on 11/06/2024 11:21:33 AM PST by dpetty121263
To: bitt
That guy better hope he ends up in prison where citizens cannot tar and feather him into an unrecognizable ball.
6 posted on 11/06/2024 11:21:39 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
To: bitt
Coward getting out before he’s FIRED.
7 posted on 11/06/2024 11:21:42 AM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
To: bitt
Not fired, firing squad.
To: bitt
He needs to go to peison for impersonating a government official and harrassment under color of law.
9 posted on 11/06/2024 11:23:58 AM PST by HYPOCRACY (Democracy is dead. Long live the Republic!)
To: bitt
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?
10 posted on 11/06/2024 11:24:24 AM PST by SpaceBar
To: bitt
Fire him anyway.
Sue him for fraud against the USA.
11 posted on 11/06/2024 11:24:38 AM PST by Paladin2
To: bitt
DOX his ass.....see how THEY like it
12 posted on 11/06/2024 11:24:42 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
To: bitt
I heard that Fani Willis will abandon her cases against Trump and try to illegally immigrate to Mexico.
Furthermore, Alvin Bragg called Trump to concede and E. Jean Carroll has admitted she might have mistaken Trump for someone else.
;-)
13 posted on 11/06/2024 11:25:01 AM PST by RoosterRedux (Thinking is difficult. And painful. That’s why many people just adopt ideologies.)
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