Jack Smith, the federal special prosecutor who made history by framing Donald Trump, has investigated corruption cases involving politicians in the United States and war crimes in Kosovo.
Smith, 54, was appointed in Novembere by Attorney General and Attorney General Merrick Garland to oversee two investigations into the former Republican president.
when he named it the jurist worked in The Hague for the Special Court for Kosovo about a case involving former Kosovar President Hashim Thaci.
Your Designation as special prosecutor in Washington occurred three days after Donald Trump announced that he was a candidate for the Republican nomination for the 2024 presidential election.
In a statement issued minutes after Garland’s announcement, Smith promised to carry out “regardless” investigations into the Trump cases and any eventual prosecution.
“The pace of investigations will not stop ni will decline under my supervision,” he said.
In the few photos that circulate of him on the internet, Smith, a very sporty man who claims to have completed more than 100 triathlons in the United States and abroad, conveys an austere image.
Some days ago, an NBC News reporter ran into him on a Washington street after tracking their movements. In the short video, Jack Smith ignores the journalist’s presence and does not answer any of the questions about the impending impeachment of Donald Trump.
– “Bulldog” –
The lawyer “has been very involved” in the investigation and is considered “a bulldog, very aggressive” because of the methods he employs, according to an MSNBC journalist.
Jack Smith graduated from Harvard Law School and worked as a prosecutor in the states of New York and Tennessee.
For five years he also headed the public integrity unit of the Ministry of Justice, supervising corruption investigations against Democratic and Republican politicians.
Later, as chief prosecutor of the Special Court for Kosovo, He lived for several years in The Hague.
In appointing him in November, the justice secretary said that, given the “exceptional circumstances,” Jack Smith was “the right choice” to oversee the two investigations “urgently and impartially.”
The first has to do with possible pressure from Donald Trump to challenge the results of the 2020 presidential election. In this context, his supporters stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021 to try to prevent Joe Biden’s electoral victory from being certified.
The second deals with the way in which the former president managed a large number of documents confidential files that were supposed to be on file. The latter was the one that motivated his indictment.
Jack Smith is the first federal prosecutor to criminally indict a former president of the United States.
