According to what AWN has heard, special counsel Jack Smith stepped down from his role at the DOJ on Friday.
A court filing on Saturday discreetly disclosed the retirement, which has been anticipated since President-elect Trump’s election in November.
“The Special Counsel completed his work and submitted his final confidential report on January 7, 2025, and separated from the Department on January 10,” according to the document.
Smith was assigned to examine the 2020 election interference case involving Trump and the Jan. 6 incident as well as the Mar-a-Lago secret materials case in November 2022 by Attorney General Merrick Garland. While President Trump was in office, Smith filled in as the acting US attorney for Tennessee’s Middle District in 2017.
This comes as the nation eagerly awaits the publication of Smith’s findings about the election meddling issue. The investigative report is expected to be released shortly, maybe before Trump takes office on January 20, according to a recent court filing.
The release of Smith’s findings was not blocked on Friday by a federal appeals court judge.
“As I have stated before with each Special Counsel who has worked for me since I became president, my commitment is to release as much of the report as the Special Counsel can, in accordance with the law and department policy,” Garland recently informed House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and ranking member Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) in a letter.
Smith moved to dismiss his lawsuits against the president-elect after Trump’s 2024 victory. Smith requested that the judge dismiss the charges against President-elect Trump in the D.C. case at the conclusion of November.
As was widely anticipated following Trump’s victory, Smith moved to remove all deadlines in the 2020 election interference lawsuit against Trump in Washington, D.C. before requesting to dismiss the charges. Following the dismissal of the charges, Trump stated that the probes “should never have been brought.”
“These cases, like all of the other cases I have been forced to go through, are empty and lawless, and should never have been brought,” Trump said in an article on Truth Social. “It was a political hijacking, and a low point in the History of our Country that such a thing could have happened, and yet, I persevered, against all odds, and WON. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”
