Jack Smith, the justice department’s special counsel assigned to oversee two criminal investigations into Donald Trump, resigned Friday from the department. Smith’s resignation came hours after the department asked a federal appeals court to move swiftly in reversing a judge’s order blocking the release of his investigative report focused on Trump’s alleged efforts to undo the 2020 presidential election before he re-takes office on 20 January. The release of a second Smith-authored report into Trump’s handling of classified documents after he left the White House in 2021 is currently delayed pending the outcome of criminal proceedings against two of Trump’s
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