Newly appointed special counsel Jack Smith hit the ground running in the Justice Department’s investigation into former President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election, seeking to understand what the former president knew about plans to obstruct the transfer of power.
Since being appointed to head the DOJ investigation last month, Smith has already initiated a series of high-profile moves, such as requesting a judge to hold Trump in contempt for failing to comply with a subpoena and bringing a number of the former president’s closest aides before a grand jury to testify.Smith is overseeing the DOJ’s investigations regarding Trump’s conduct during the Jan.
Since Thanksgiving, Smith has called two former White House lawyers, three of Trump’s closest aides, and former speechwriter Stephen Miller before a grand jury in Washington to give testimony. Smith has also issued a number of subpoenas to local officials in battleground states where Trump sought to overturn election results requesting communications with the former president in the weeks following the 2020 election.
Smith is set to take on two different teams investigating efforts to overturn the 2020 election and the subsequent Jan. 6 riot, as well as the potential mishandling of classified documents that were taken to Mar-a-Lago, according to CNN. Prosecutors have sought details about meetings in which Trump and some of his allies suggested submitting alternative slates of electors who could be called on in the event the election was decertified, sources told the news outlet. Previous reporting said the DOJ had been investigating such Trump allies as John Eastman and Rudy Giuliani for their part in advising the former president as they developed strategies to block President Joe Biden's path to the White House.
One centers on seditious conspiracy and conspiracy to obstruct a government proceeding, similar to charges levied against those arrested after storming the Capitol. Another involves charging Trump with fraud in connection to the false electors plot or his efforts to pressure the DOJ to overturn the results of the election.
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