Jack Smith to resign and wind down cases against Trump before inauguration

Special counsel Jack Smith plans to finish his work and resign before President-elect Donald Trump takes office.

Smith’s goal is not to leave any significant part of his work for others to complete and to get ahead of Trump’s promise to fire him within “two seconds” of being sworn in, according to sources close to Smith who spoke to the New York Times. Smith led two federal investigations against Trump, with one pertaining to his alleged mishandling of classified documents and the other focused on Trump’s efforts to subvert the results of the 2020 election and the subsequent deadly Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.