{"id":1795379,"date":"2023-01-04T18:04:39","date_gmt":"2023-01-04T23:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1795379"},"modified":"2023-01-04T18:04:47","modified_gmt":"2023-01-04T23:04:47","slug":"special-counsel-jack-smith-returns-to-united-states-to-lead-investigations-into-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/special-counsel-jack-smith-returns-to-united-states-to-lead-investigations-into-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Smith, Special Counsel, Returns to America To Lead Investigations Into Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fspecial-counsel-jack-smith-returns-to-united-states-to-lead-investigations-into-trump%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1795379&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>Jack Smith, the Special Counsel, is reported to be back in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/united-states\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">United States<\/a> Former President to be investigated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a> After serving as a prosecutor in The Hague.<\/p>\n<p>Attorney General <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/merrick-garland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Merrick Garland<\/a> Taped <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/from-the-hague-to-obamas-irs-scandal-meet-jack-smith-the-new-special-counsel-to-investigate-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Smith<\/a>Former war crimes prosecutor to serve as special counsel for the Department of Justice investigation into Trump. Smith accepted the position, but was initially kept back at The Hague in The Netherlands after he had been involved in a bike accident.<\/p>\n<p>Since his appointment, he has returned to the United States several weeks later. The exact date of his return is not known as the Justice Department has not announced it. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national-security\/2023\/01\/03\/jack-smith-returns-special-counsel-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Washington Post<\/a>. People familiar with Smith\u2019s travels told the Post that Smith had been back in the U.S. \u201cfor some time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Garland <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/breaking-merrick-garland-to-name-special-counsel-to-determine-charges-against-trump-report\">appointed<\/a> After Trump announced his third run for the presidency at Mar-a-Lago&#8217;s November event, Smith will be Smith&#8217;s special counsel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe department of Justice has long recognized that in certain, extraordinary cases, it is in the public interest to appoint a special prosecutor to independently manage an investigation and prosecution,\u201d Garland stated. \u201cBased on recent developments, including the former president\u2019s announcement that he is a candidate for president in the next election and the sitting president\u2019s intention to be a candidate as well, I have concluded that it is in the public\u2019s interest to appoint a special counsel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAppointing a special counsel at this time is the right thing to do. The extraordinary circumstances presented here demand it. Mr. Smith is the right choice to complete these matters in an even handed and urgent manner,\u201d He concluded.<\/p>\n<p>Trump could be facing criminal prosecution for two DOJ investigations. The investigation into the January 6 events focuses on whether Trump incited insurrection or attempted to illegally interfere in the certification of 2020 election. This investigation led to hundreds of criminal prosecutions against protesters who entered America&#8217;s Capitol.<\/p>\n<p>Trump is also being investigated for a trove containing documents that were found by the FBI in an August raid at Mar-a-Lago. Garland said that Trump may face potential charges regarding the holding of these documents and obstruction of federal investigations.<\/p>\n<p>Smith, the special counsel to Trump, will decide if he is guilty of any offenses related to either investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Special counsel Jack Smith has reportedly arrived back in the United States to lead investigations into former President Donald Trump after working as a prosecutor at The Hague. Attorney General Merrick Garland tapped Smith, a former war crimes prosecutor, to be special counsel to take over two Department of Justice investigations into Trump in November. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":1795382,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[5374,9130,6202,8327,7317,6961,7140,7608,7262,3634,6195],"class_list":["post-1795379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-america","tag-counsel","tag-daily","tag-investigations","tag-jack","tag-lead","tag-returns","tag-smith","tag-special","tag-trump","tag-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1795379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1795379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1795379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1795382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1795379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1795379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1795379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}