Former FBI official Andy McCabe was critical of a recent move by former special counsel Jack Smith while he was on his way out the door of the Justice Department. McCabe and co-host Allison Gill from the "Jack" podcast expressed their mutual annoyance at Smith's handling of the final reports on President-elect Donald Trump's federal cases.
Smith's report provides new details about election-interference charges against Trump, says he believes election victory saved him from conviction.
The report on federal charges against Trump for election interference in 2020 offers special counsel Jack Smith a last chance to explain his decisions after dropping the case.
Special counsel Jack Smith said he would have won a criminal conviction of President-elect Donald Trump if not for his election to a second term.
The DOJ is continuing its push to release the remaining volume of special counsel Jack Smith's final report, covering his Jan. 6 probe, to select members of Congress.
After pressing Bondi over what he called Trump FBI director pick Kash Patel's "enemies list," Sen. Whitehouse shifted to questioning Bondi on whether she would shut down the FBI's national security and counterterrorism work, to which Bondi answered that, while she will look at every agency, she has no "intention of shutting anything down."
Special counsel Jack Smith was finalizing his report about Trump's two indictments for release as early as Friday if the judge hadn't blocked it.
House Democrats ask Attorney General Merrick Garland to drop the charges against President-elect Trump's former co-defendants Walt Nauta and Carlos De Oliveira.
Sarah Burris is a long-time veteran of political campaigns, having worked as a fundraiser and media director across the United States. She transitioned into reporting while working for Rock the ...
One lever available to Trump is ordering the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to audit his rivals: during the first Trump White House, former FBI Director James Comey was put through a brutal, forensic audit. Nonprofit journalism newsrooms that criticise the President-elect could have their charitable status revoked by the Treasury Department.
The failure of this particular prosecution is not the most serious or influential. But it might be the most maddening.