Top senators within the Republican Party are informing officials working within the Justice Department to make sure that all records concerning the investigation into President-elect Donald Trump by Special Counsel Jack Smith are preserved for the new administration. Obviously, those folks are going to want to take a look at those records and see if the investigation by Smith was motivated by politics. We all know it was. But maybe, just maybe, if evidence exists to prove that was indeed the case, we can actually see someone held accountable for their actions. Wouldn’t that be refreshing?
“[C]onsidering the Justice Department’s past destruction of federal records relevant to congressional oversight and political bias infecting its decision-making process, we request that you preserve all records related to the Justice Department’s criminal investigations of former President Trump by Special Counsel Smith,” Sens. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Ron Johnson, R-Wis., went on to say in a letter to Smith, Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Director Christopher Wray. “The improper conduct of the past cannot be repeated in this matter; therefore, all records must be preserved so that Congress can perform an objective and independent review.”
There were two cases headed up by Smith. The first was the possession of classified documents by the president-elect, the other was concerning charges of federal election interference.
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Smith led federal investigations into Trump’s possession of classified documents and federal election interference before introducing charges. After Trump decisively won the presidential election last week against Vice President Kamala Harris, Smith filed a motion to vacate all deadlines in the 2020 election interference case against Trump, which was widely expected.
The case has not yet been officially dropped, but Smith claimed his team plans to give an updated report on its official status on Dec. 2. Smith also filed a motion in the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals to halt his previous request to appeal the classified documents case after it was dismissed by U.S. Judge Aileen Cannon. Grassley and Johnson noted in their correspondence that in 2020, released DOJ records revealed that cellphones of multiple people on then-Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigative team were “wiped” for various reasons during its probe into Trump.
Records at the time revealed that devices were wiped of information due to forgotten passwords, irreparable screen damage, loss of devices, intentional deletion or other reasons.
“In addition, Senator Grassley’s oversight exposed that during the FBI’s investigation of Secretary Clinton’s mishandling of highly classified information, the FBI agreed to destroy any records that were not turned over to the investigatory team and agreed to destroy laptops associated with Secretary Clinton’s staff,” Grassley and Johnson said in the letter.
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