President-elect Donald Trump has repeatedly said he plans to fire special counsel Jack Smith.

Summary

Special Counsel Jack Smith plans to step down from the Justice Department before President-elect Donald Trump takes office in January, likely preventing Trump from firing him.

Smith, appointed by Attorney General Merrick Garland to investigate Trump’s handling of classified documents and efforts to overturn the 2020 election, will issue a final report, as required by Justice Department rules, before exiting.

Both federal cases against Trump are expected to wind down, as DOJ policy prohibits prosecuting a sitting president.

Judge Tanya Chutkan has requested an update on the cases by December 2.

  • madcaesar@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    4 years… 4 fucking years Biden and the DOJ had time to hold the orange fucker accountable and they did nothing.

  • Chainweasel@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 days ago

    If he’s smart he’ll have his family out of the country by then too. I know Trump planned on firing him, and I think Smith is smart enough to know that he’ll use a firing squad when he does it.

  • Thoralf Will@discuss.tchncs.de
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    4 days ago

    I cannot blame him. I wouldn’t want to work under a criminal that I’m currently prosecuting either.

    He’s way too smart to wait to be humiliated by the orange buffoon.

  • xenomor@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    Please don’t ever be lulled into believing that there is anything normal or sane about having a carve out that makes the President not subject to laws. This country was full on founded on the idea of rejecting a kings. What an absolute joke of a nation we are. It’s just mustache twirling oligarchs and drooling peasant lemmings all the way down.

    • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
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      4 days ago

      This country was full on founded on the idea of rejecting kings.

      I always believed that too but I’m not so sure anymore. How does something decent become so evil? Maybe it always was evil.

  • thepreciousboar@lemm.ee
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    4 days ago

    So maybe I’m getting sometging wrong here?

    “DOJ policy prohibits prosecuting a sitting president” how is this not in conflict with a prosecuted candidate (for other crimes) being allowed to be president?