Trump, who earlier this week announced his plans to run for president again in 2024, is the subject of several investigations being reviewed by the Justice Department.
These are two extensive investigations:
The first concerns Donald Trump’s role in the January 6, 2021 storming of the Capitol. The second concerns the suspicion that Trump attempted to hide classified documents at his residence in Mar-a-Lago, Florida.
at a press conference On Friday evening Swedish time, Garland said that Donald Trump’s announcement that he intends to run for the next presidential election and from Joe Biden that he also plans to do so has now made him choose to appoint a special prosecutor.
– That’s why it’s in the public interest to do so, Garland said.
Jack Smith, who would To work as a special prosecutor, he has worked, among others, at the International Criminal Court in The Hague but also as a prosecutor in the United States.
It is Jack Smith who will recommend, if he finds it, whether the former president should be prosecuted.
Smith said in a statement shortly after the press conference that he intends to work on the investigation without interruption and that he will make any decisions that may come about charges independently of others.
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