WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Merrick Garland named a special counsel on Friday to oversee the Justice Department’s investigation into the presence of classified documents at former President Donald Trump’s Florida estate as well as key aspects of a separate probe involving the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection and efforts to undo the 2020 election.
The move, being announced just three days after Trump formally launched his 2024 candidacy, is a recognition of the unmistakable political implications of two investigations that involve not only a former president but also a current White House hopeful.
Though the appointment installs a new supervisor atop the probes — both of which are expected to accelerate now that the midterm elections are over — the special counsel will still report to Garland, who has ultimate say of whether to bring charges.
The role will be filled by Jack Smith, a veteran prosecutor who led the Justice Department’s public integrity section in Washington and who later served as the acting chief federal prosecutor in Nashville, Tennessee, during the Obama administration. More recently, he has been the chief prosecutor for the special court in the Hague that is tasked with investigating international war crimes.
The Justice Department described Smith as a registered independent, an effort to blunt any attack of perceived political bias.
Representatives for Trump, a Republican, did not immediately return messages seeking comment.
There was no immediate reason provided for the decision or for its timing. Garland has spoken repeatedly of his singular focus on the facts, the evidence and the law in the Justice Department’s decision-making and of his determination to restore political independence to the agency following the tumultuous years of the Trump administration.
And there does not seem to be an obvious conflict like the one that prompted the last appointment of a special counsel to handle Trump-related investigations. The Trump Justice Department named former FBI Director Robert Mueller as special counsel to lead the investigation into potential coordination between Russia and the Trump 2016 presidential campaign.
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Democrats attacking THE PERSON and even THE PEOPLE, when they cannot win with in successful ideas and governance, is just Saul Alinsky 101. THE PEOPLE are wise that whenever a Democrat points one finger at you, three point back at them who are guilty as sin for the very things they accuse others of. It’s called proactive progressivism always staying one step ahead of stepping in the dog dung, mostly already dropped by the yellow dog Democrats themselves, used as mine fields of corruption designed for opponents to slip and slide upon. Mark my words, the minute the Republican favorite ever swings from Trump to DeSantis, the personal attacks on DeSantis will gin up faster than a Hunter can gin up a Martini. It is their very miscreant media disinformation used to point one finger at Trump with, disinformation used by themselves to hide three of their own that blatantly they themselves are guilty of, to divert the public’s attention from things like their money laundering machines, and mole reprogrammed voting machines. This whole proffered legal Offence against Trump is a disguised Biden Democrat Defense to cover with another media pigs in a blanket, and Garland legal diversion, the Biden Real Political oinkers, about to get shredded into pulled pork by the House investigations. Guilty Garland also has a target on his back and is apt to get cooked underground in Joe’s basement, his rotted attempts at self-covering Fig leaves, burned clean off like a pig in a Hawaiian luau.
IF anyone believes Garland, that this guy “IS GOING TO BE IMPARTIAL”, i have a bridge in the middle of the desert, to sell you!
Special Council Probe = Democrat version of political proctology
Is Durham finished with his investigation? Don’t ever hear about him anymore, do we? HAS ANYONE GONE TO JAIL OVER THE RUSSIAN HOAX? No! These people will stop at NOTHING to drive Donald Trump from the political world. democraps are SHAMELESS.
Remember – The Democrat Party, Hil-Liar-ly Clinton and their FBI fabricated charges against Donald Trump even before his being elected and continues to to attack and make up BS evidence in their attack on Donald Trump almost 2 years after he left office.
Nancy Pelosi admitted an unfortunate truth about her
orchestrate and fabricated President Trump’s impeachment “farce”
– It hinges on witness’s “allegations” not “proof”.
It’s Not A Question” Of “Proof”, It’s About “Allegations”
https://youtu.be/7dzhIxeF204
The Democrat Party is so afraid of Donald Trump will exspose the socialist Democrats treasonous, destructive intensions and drain their swamp, I am surprised that the Democrat Party has not tried to have Donald Trump murdered. The lies, cons, hate, hypocrisy and treachery of this treasonous, socialist Democrat Party know no bounds.
Democrats have spent six years trying to prove the unprovable concerning the 2016 election and amid promise after promise of irrefutable ‘evidence’ came up with nothing! Then there is the hand-picked kangaroo committee meeting and spending millions of dollars which we now learn is scrapping all the exculpatory evidence concerning the total of January 6th’s events to concentrate solely on Donald Trump, one single individual an insurrection does not make!
So what’s the deal with a prosecutor who is not independent? A mouthpiece for all the concocted information the the FIB (oops) has assembled!
ANyone who believes that this guy CAN be impartial, must have donated their brains decades ago.
It’s 100% political. When garland said Biden was running again I knew it’s political. How many more investigation s will the demonrats have ?? I would not be surprised ,if garland came back and said due to criminal investigation ,trump can’t run.
This is NOT political, of course. BUT the Republican’s calling for an actual probe into the Hunter Biden laptop fiasco (and contents) IS political. The ‘logic’ of the left is astounding.