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The government of US President Donald Trump is investigating the former special investigator Jack Smith, who headed two criminal investigations against Trump during the bidet government. With the alleged reason that Smith’s actions could have been politically motivated.
Investigations against Smith by Trump’s special investment office
According to reports, the US Office of Special Counsel (Office of Special Officer) Smith is investigating a possible violation of the Hatch Act. A law that is intended to ensure that federal employees remain impartial and avoid political activities. Smith had investigated Trump for alleged improper handling of secret documents and his efforts to cancel the election results from 2020. Including his role in the start of the uprising on January 6th in the US capitol.
The news was first reported on Friday evening by the “New York Post” and confirmed on Saturday by “NBC News”.
Smith’s federal government against Trump for election manipulation was delayed by the conservatively dominated Supreme Court, while he decided on Trump’s far -reaching immunity claims for actions committed during his tenure. And then largely took place.
Smith hired the investigation by the Ministry of Justice against Trump in November and resigned from his post in January, shortly before Trump’s office. At that time, the Ministry of Justice published a report under Joe Biden Smiden Smid’s report on the investigation of Trump’s election interference.
Trump’s revenge plan: Investigators in sight
“As explained in the original and supplementary indictment, Mr. Trump, when it became clear that he had lost the election and that legal means had failed to contest the election results, to a number of criminal measures to stay in power,” the report said.
Trump had been making revenge plans against Smith and his team for years. He looked for ways to punish her and to undo her investigations. He never made it a secret. “The precedent of what they did – the instrumentalization, the use of the Doj and the FBI to persecute political opponents – that’s so bad,” said Trump last year. “That means I can do that too.”
After Trump’s election victory, Smith’s team hired lawyers quickly in the event that Trump puts his public retaliation announcement into practice.
Political support for investigations against Smith
Senator Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), An allied Trumps who had requested an investigation against Smith at the beginning of this week, welcomed the investigation. “I would like to thank the Office of Special Counsel to take it seriously. And initiated an investigation into Jack Smith’s behavior. Nobody is above the law. Jack Smith’s actions clearly aimed at harmful to President Trump’s choice. And he should be fully accounted for,” said Cotton of the Post.
In February, Trump’s Minister of Justice Pam Bondi founded the “Weaponization Working Group” (working group for instrumentalization). He ordered, among other things, to examine the “instrumentalization by special investigators Jack Smith and his team, which spends more than $ 50 million in order to pursue President Trump”. Just like the officials who were involved in Mar-A-Lago in 2022 for secret documents, which Trump had reportedly taken from the White House.
Hard punishments are possible in violation of Hatch Act
Penalties for violations of the Hatch Act include up to five years of employment in the public service. In addition, a civil penalty of up to $ 1,000.
Trump’s controversial candidate for the special investigator office
Trump’s candidate to lead the Office of Special Counsel is 28-year-old Paul Ingrassia. A political commentator who was approved as a lawyer in 2024. Ingrassia is said to have connections to the white suprematist Nick Fuentes and Andrew Tate, who is charged in several countries for rape and human trade. In November 2024, Ingrassia said Smith was supposed to go to prison. Together with any other “Communist who has constantly operated legal warfare against Trump”.
“President Trump wants to appoint Mr. Ingrassia. Because he knows that this candidate will treat treacherous, secessionist rhetoric as an acceptable political discourse. Extremism is rewarded instead of condemned instead of convicting instead of destroying democratic institutions,” wrote leading democrats from the committees for the supervision and judiciary of the House of Representatives in June.