Jack Smith’s special counsel investigation into Donald Trump and his alleged mishandling of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago is reportedly “wrapping up” as the DOJ moves toward a possible indictment of the former president.
Smith was appointed by Attorney General Merrick Garland late last year to handle Trump inquiries related to the Capitol riot and the Mar-a-Lago classified records sagas. A decadeslong DOJ veteran prosecutor, he had been a prosecutor at The Hague, where he investigated alleged war crimes in Kosovo, until late last year.
Multiple outlets also reported on Tuesday that since becoming special counsel, Smith issued a subpoena to the Trump Organization seeking information on any foreign business deals since Trump took office in 2017, including possible deals in China, France, Kuwait, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and the United Arab Emirates.
Garland's decision to allow personal lawyers for Biden who didn’t have security clearances to search for classified documents at the president’s Delaware homes has also been harshly criticized by Republicans. Debra Wall, the acting archivist at the National Archives and Records Administration, sent a letter to Trump last week telling him that it would be handing over records to Smith, writing, “The 16 records in question all reflect communications involving close presidential advisers, some of them directed to you personally, concerning whether, why, and how you should declassify certain classified records.
The archivist said this resulted in Biden and the White House being made aware of the situation as the FBI sought access to the records.
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