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Former special counsel Jack Smith will make the case before a large American audience for the first time on Thursday as to why he believes that Donald Trump committed fraud in his actions and statements after his 2020 election loss.

Smith was appointed by the Justice Department to take over two pre-existing investigations of Trump once he declared his 2024 candidacy for president. But despite that significant post, the former prosecutor has made relatively few public comments outside of legal filings.

Smith and his team eventually indicted Trump on charges of conspiring to undo the 2020 election he lost to Joe Biden, and of willfully retaining classified documents into 2023, several of them top secret, at his Florida and New Jersey residences.

Smith, who never got to try his cases after Trump's 2024 election win, testified behind closed doors before the same Republican-led House judiciary committee in December. A redacted transcript from that session reveals a mostly buttoned-up, professional display from all concerned, but Thursday's public display could be more demonstrative.

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[–] Tyrq@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 3 days ago

Unless someone is going to follow through, and forcefully arrest Trump now, anything about this or that investigation or prosecution from a time when it was actually prudent to act on is totally useless. Almost as performative as Trump starting a peace council or whatever. Just masturbatory