Garland Names DOJ Special Counsel to Lead Trump Criminal Probes
November 18, 2022
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1:57Now PlayingGarland Names DOJ Special Counsel to Lead Trump Criminal Probes
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as posted by the channelThe US Justice Department has appointed an independent special counsel to oversee criminal investigations related to former President Donald Trump and decide whether to bring any charges now that he’s making a third run for the White House in 2024.
Attorney General Merrick Garland said Friday he determined it was in the public interest to appoint a special counsel given “recent developments,” including Trump’s announcement that he planned to run for president again and President Joe Biden’s stated intention to run for re-election.
“The 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,” Garland told reporters in Washington.
Allowing a special counsel to handle the probes may protect the government from potential conflicts of interest and avoid allegations of bias, because the investigator would operate largely independently from Justice Department leadership.
Garland named John L. “Jack” Smith as the special counsel under an order signed Friday. Since 2018, Smith has served as the chief prosecutor for the special court in The Hague charged with investigating and adjudicating war crimes in Kosovo. He is a former acting US attorney.
Smith will take on oversight of the investigations into the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection at the US Capitol -- including any role that Trump may have played -- as well as the former president’s handling of classified White House records after he left office, according to Garland’s order.
“I intend to conduct the assigned investigations, and any prosecutions that may result from them, independently and in the best traditions of the Department of Justice,” Smith said in a statement. “The pace of the investigations will not pause or flag under my watch. I will exercise independent judgment and will move the investigations forward expeditiously and thoroughly to whatever outcome the facts and the law dictate.”
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