Smith’s team filed a late Friday motion asking Cannon to clarify thatfalse claimsfrom Trump violated his existing conditions of release after he said President Biden and the Justice Department were authorized to “take me out” during the search for documents at Mar-a-...
has agreed to dismiss the case after special counsel Jack Smith filed a motion Monday asking for just that. Smith also filed a motion to end the case on how Trump handled classified documents after his first presidency, where prosecutors had been appealing a previous dismissal. CBS News' Scott...
Smith’s team also made clear in the filing that prosecutors intend to introduce more evidence at trial related to Pence, who is not accused of any wrongdoing. For instance, they want to introduce evidence of what they call unofficial communications that Trump had with ...
In the new indictment, Smith’s team has done just that. When describing the actual events of the Jan. 6 attack, the new version adds in more details about Congress’ work that day to certify the Electoral College’s votes, focusing on the documents that the rioters threatened afte...
WASHINGTON — Jack Smith, the special counsel who pursued two federal prosecutions of Donald Trump, plans to finish his work and resign along with other members of his team before Trump takes office in January, people familiar with his plans said. ...
Washington — Special counsel Jack Smith is expected to have departed the Justice Department by the time President-elect Donald Trump takes office in late January, two sources familiar with his plans told CBS News, as he and his team make plans to wind down the two federal prosecutions ...
Smith’s team in the filingpushed backon the former president’s bid to delay his Mar-a-Lago trial until after the 2024 election, arguing that Trump’s lawyers had not provided any sufficient reason for such a delay. But the filing also suggested that prosecutors may be read...
“The defendants provide no credible justification to postpone a trial that is still seven months away,” Smithwrote in a filingon Monday after Trump’s team last week urged U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon to postpone the trial “until at least mid-November 2024, in ligh...
Prosecutors said the activity log on Trump's phone also shows he was using it — and the Twitter app in particular — consistently throughout the day. As to what was playing on the television in the dining room, Smith and his team wrote that three unidentified White House staffers can spe...
Trump is under investigation by multiple prosecutors, and has already beenindicted by the Manhattan district attorneyon multiple counts offalsifying business records. But Smith’s federal investigations should be of primary importance, as only those probes can comprehensively redress the illegal ...