President Donald Trump has signed an executive order targeting a law firm that assisted Trump's prosecutor, Jack Smith. Newsweek sought email comment on Wednesday from the office of Attorney General Pam Bondi,
The Justice Department on Friday allowed President Donald Trump to take seized boxes that werecollected fromspecial counsel Jack Smith.
The move, signed by President Trump on Thursday, is a major escalation of his promise to pursue perceived foes.
They are being brought down to Florida and will someday be part of the Trump Presidential Library,” Trump said of the boxes. “Justice finally won out.”
Special counsel Jack Smith's secret documents case against Donald Trump was unceremoniously dismissed over the summer — and the president now says those boxes that were seized are now being returned to Florida to be placed in his future presidential library.
Three lawsuits — including one from the New York Times — press the case that the special counsel’s final word belongs to the public.
In a brazen display of pettiness, the president is using the power of his office to target a law firm for working with Jack Smith's investigation.
The White House is suspending the active security clearances of lawyers from the large legal defense firm Covington & Burling who are working with former special counsel Jack Smith, who prosecuted Donald Trump unsuccessfully on behalf of the Justice Department under the Biden administration.
The report is the second volume of a report Jack Smith wrote after dropping the federal criminal cases he brought against Donald J. Trump because of his 2024 election victory.
Classified documents — the final remnants of former special counsel Jack Smith's since-dismissed federal case against President Trump — have been turned over to the president, he said. Zoom in: "They are being brought down to Florida and will someday be part of the Trump Presidential Library,
President Trump tapped Walt Nauta, a Navy veteran and his co-defendant in Special Counsel Jack Smith’s classified documents case, for a seat on the Naval Academy’s Board of Visitors on Friday. “Our GREAT United States Naval Academy needs a new Board of Visitors.