US_ Republicans Demand Special Counsel Retain All Records Related to Trump Cases

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Republicans Demand Special Counsel Retain All Records Related to Trump Cases

Republicans gave Jack Smith’s team a deadline of Nov. 24 to comply with the request.

(Left) Special Counsel Jack Smith in Washington on Aug. 1, 2023. (Right) Former President Donald Trump in Palm Beach, Fla., on Nov. 8, 2022. Saul Loeb/Eva Marie Uzcategui/AFP via Getty Images

By Jack Phillips
11/8/2024 Updated: 11/8/2024


House Republicans on Friday demanded in a letter that special counsel Jack Smith preserve his records in relation to his prosecutions of President-elect Donald Trump.

They have requested documents and messages relating to meetings between the FBI and officials within the Department of Justice (DOJ) with Smith’s office before a search warrant was executed at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence in 2023; documents or communications relating to the hiring of staff; and all documents and communications between his office, the attorney general’s office, and the deputy attorney general’s office.

“With President Trump’s decisive victory this week, we are concerned that the Office of Special Counsel may attempt to purge relevant records, communications, and documents responsive to our numerous requests for information,” House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) said in the letter to Smith’s office.

Jordan’s office gave Smith’s team a deadline of Nov. 24 to comply with the request.

The letter, the Republicans said, serves as a “formal request to preserve all existing and future records and materials related” to Smith’s cases against Trump and as “an instruction to take all reasonable steps to prevent the destruction or alteration” of records and communications.

Smith’s office has not publicly responded to the Republicans’ letter. The Epoch Times contacted the DOJ and Smith’s team for comment on Friday but didn’t receive a reply by publication time.

The DOJ appears to be winding down the two Trump cases following his election victory on Tuesday. A spokesperson for the DOJ told The Epoch Times this week that it has a standing policy not to prosecute presidents.

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