CV NEWSFEED // The Biden-Harris administration’s Department of Justice and Special Counsel Jack Smith’s pending court cases against now-President-Elect Donald Trump will reportedly be dropped.
“JUST IN,” media personality Colin Rugg reported on X (formerly Twitter) Wednesday. “The Department of Justice and Jack Smith immediately end their cases against Donald Trump.”
“The DOJ cited their policy that presidents can’t be prosecuted however it was assumed they would work up until the ‘last day,’” Rugg added.
Rugg’s post featured an MSNBC segment featuring the network’s Justice and Intel Correspondent Ken Dilanian explaining the DOJ’s decision to stop prosecuting Trump:
What’s interesting here is that the DOJ is moving to end [proceedings against Trump] even before he takes office, citing the longstanding DOJ policy that sitting presidents can’t be prosecuted.
And there were some [who] thought that maybe Special Counsel Jack Smith was going to sprint through the finish line, was going to work up until the last day, force Trump to fire him, wait till a new attorney general was appointed.
But that does not appear to be the thinking inside the Department. The thinking is that these cases can’t go forward.
The cases in question were being handled by Smith. One case against Trump was over allegations of a “conspiracy” to obstruct the results of the 2020 election, and the second was a charge against Trump for allegedly mishandling classified documents. The latter was under appeal by Smith after the trial judge dismissed the case over the summer.
Following the call of the presidential race in favor of Trump, his former Attorney General William Barr appeared on Fox News and charged Attorney General Merrick Garland and Smith to drop their cases against Trump.
“The American people have rendered their verdict on President Trump, and decisively chosen him to lead the country for the next four years,” said Barr:
They did that with full knowledge of the claims against him by prosecutors around the country, and I think Attorney General Garland and the state prosecutors should respect the people’s decision and dismiss the cases against President Trump now.
