Special counsel Jack Smith to oversee criminal investigations into Trump

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The special counsel will ultimately decide whether to file criminal charges against the former president.

Mr Smith is a former prosecutor in New York and most recently served as a chief prosecutor in the Hague where he investigated war crimes in Kosovo.Serious business for Trump

Handing this off to a special counsel, and giving that counsel power to do as he sees fit, provides the Biden administration at least a measure of insulation against such allegations. Special counsel inquiries tend to take on lives of their own, and find new prosecutorial avenues to explore, as did Robert Mueller's Russia probe and similar investigations during the George W Bush and Bill Clinton presidencies.Why a war crimes expert will decide Trump cases

Mr Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, where he announced his presidential bid on Tuesday night, was searched by FBI agents in August. They seized top secret documents and are investigating whether he may have broken the law by keeping the documents there after he left the White House.

 

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An investigation is when your looking for something. The papers are sitting in front of them. What is hard about them reading papers. What's the holdup.

Shouldnt be allowed to run a presidential campaign until the investigation is concluded, and decision on whether there will be charges or not.

They will never ever stop where this man is concerned. They are obsessed!

The flak is at it's worst when you are directly above the target. BBC gave a soft soap interview to peedo Hunter, has ignored Biden corruption and bought into the Russia, Russia, Russia conspiracy theory. The BBC are compromised. DefundtheBBC

Politics were always dirty in the past but within agreed limits.

TrumpBribes MakeSuckersGreatAgain

Sure but dont go after hunter ¿¿

Bury him, american traitor

Now that Republicans have control of the house, they’ll try and put a stop to it. They’ve already said they’ll investigate Joe Biden. No wonder America is so divided. Two parties fighting like cat and dog trying to lock each other up. Very childish and pathetic really.

No criminal charges will be filed. This is designed to avert our attention away from Biden. We are not stupid.

So Biden is in serious trouble & the bbc do this. Wtf is going on.

Good God, how many bananas is sleepy Joe's banana republic aiming for?

Put this guy in the jail

Donald J. Trump will be indicted for stealing government documents. Easy case to prosecute.

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This time they will find something… History has shown they will not find anything. When Republicans get back in the WH and turn the tables back on the Democrats they will become a bunch of whining babies claiming insurrection & other words they don’t know the meaning of.

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