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CV NEWS FEED // Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton demanded that the Biden-Harris Department of Justice (DOJ) release the records of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s controversial prosecution of President-elect Donald Trump.
Paxton announced on X (formerly Twitter) on Friday that he had submitted a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Request to the DOJ “requesting records relating to Jack Smith’s corrupt investigation into President Trump.”
“Past Special Counsels, including—notoriously—Robert Mueller, destroyed records at the end of their investigations to avoid accountability,” Paxton wrote. “It is not clear why nobody was prosecuted for doing so.”
“This request is part of my Office’s efforts to ensure that Americans are not cheated out of accountability or information again,” the attorney general explained. “This pattern of weaponizing the justice system for partisan retribution must end.”
Smith was investigating Trump over widely disputed allegations that the former president “mishandled classified documents.” In July, federal Judge Aileen Cannon dismissed Smith’s case. The special counsel announced that he was appealing Cannon’s ruling one month later.
The same day Trump’s decisive 2024 election victory was announced, Smith began to take steps to end his case against the incoming president.
Trump has promised to fire Smith, who was controversially appointed by Biden-Harris Attorney General Merrick Garland, “within two seconds” of reassuming the presidency.
Also on Friday afternoon, The New York Times reported that a federal judge “granted a request from” Smith “to pause all filing deadlines in the federal case accusing President-elect Donald J. Trump of plotting to overturn the 2020 election.”
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Over the past few days, many observers have argued that Trump’s comfortable win over failed Democratic nominee Kamala Harris is evidence that a majority of the American people want all the remaining legal proceedings against Trump – which critics widely characterize as “lawfare” – to be dropped.
In a Thursday op-ed titled “Jack Smith Loses in the People’s Court,” the Wall Street Journal editorial board wrote:
Americans on Tuesday voted to re-elect Donald Trump, and in doing so they also rendered a verdict on the criminal prosecutions against him. They don’t think the cases are disqualifying for the White House, and that means the best result for the country would be for them to go away.
Since Trump’s resounding reelection to a second non-consecutive term earlier this week, Paxton has emerged as a possible candidate for a position in the president-elect’s incoming administration.
As of Friday afternoon, leading prediction website Polymarket indicated that there is a 44% chance the Texas attorney general will join the second Trump administration.
Trump won Paxton’s state and its 40 electoral votes by 14 points in the 2024 presidential election, bolstered by the Republican ticket’s unprecedented degree of support from Latino voters.
Trump’s win in Texas comes after some analysts had predicted for years that the Lone Star State may be trending to the left. Despite such projections, Texas voted over eight points to the right of its result in the 2020 election.
