Special Counsel Jack Smith Resigns from Department of Justice After Completing Final Trump Report

Special Counsel Jack Smith, who recently completed his second report on President-elect Donald Trump, resigned from the Department of Justice (DOJ) on Friday, a court filing revealed.

The court filing, which was released on Saturday, was addressed to U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon. It asked Cannon not to extend a block of the release of Smith's final Trump report, which he submitted on Tuesday.

Smith's new report on Trump investigates the president-elect's alleged mishandling of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago Estate. His initial report focused on Trump's alleged attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.

Earlier this week, Attorney General Merrick Garland, who appointed Smith in 2022, announced that the DOJ would release the first part of Smith's report, which details Trump's alleged election interference attempts, "when permitted by the court to do so." Garland said the second part would not be released while charges against Walt Nauta, Trump's valet, and Carlos De Oliveira, the President-elect's property manager, remain.

Only the chairman and ranking members of the House and Senate judiciary committees will be able to view Smith's full report.

Trump has called Smith's report "fake" and deemed it a "witch hunt."

"As the American People have seen, this 'case' had no crime, no damages, no proof, no facts, no Law, only a highly conflicted Judge, a star witness who is a disbarred, disgraced, serial perjurer, and criminal Election Interference," Trump wrote on Truth Social.

On January 7, Cannon, who was appointed by Trump in 2020, issued an injunction to block the release of Smith's report. The DOJ called the move "plainly erroneous."

In November, Smith filed papers to dismiss the federal indictment that alleges Trump's election interference and dropped his appeal of a judge's decision to throw out the indictment for Trump's alleged mishandling of documents at Mar-a-Lago. Smith attributed his actions to the DOJ's longstanding history of not prosecuting sitting presidents.