Trump has frequently mused about seeking revenge on prosecutors like special counsel Jack Smith, who led the two federal criminal cases against Trump, and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who brought the New York hush money case that ended in Trump’s conviction.

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While President Joe Biden issued many pardons before leaving office, he did not pardon various individuals Trump has blasted who were connected to cases against the Republican figure.

WASHINGTON — Democrats are split on whether President Joe Biden should use his authority and presidential immunity to release special counsel Jack Smith's report on his cases involving President-elect Donald Trump. The Supreme Court ruled over the summer ...

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The report calls Trump's claims that the special counsel was influenced by Biden for political reasons "laughable."

"Article III Project" founder Mike Davis tells Newsmax that special counsel Jack Smith, "could be subjected to a criminal probe by the Trump 47 Justice Department for running what looks like a criminal conspiracy against President Trump and his aides and supporters to interfere in the election.

Special Counsel Jack Smith – who oversaw two historic ... Friday — was expected ahead of the end of outgoing President Joe Biden’s term. “The Special Counsel completed his work and ...

The president-elect had plenty of time to come up with a compelling response to the special counsel's findings. He did not spend that time wisely.

Smith’s letter cited John Adams for the “fundamental value of our democracy that we exist as ‘a government of laws, and not of men.’” But our prized “rule of law” must inevitably be administered by men and women who are subject to being undermined by political attack.

Special Counsel Jack Smith's report on Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election results is damning, noting he would have been convicted.

Smith curtailed his probe into the 45th president ... s efforts to mislead the American public about his defeat to Joe Biden four years ago. “When it became clear that Mr Trump had lost ...