Jack Smith has read the room and decided resignation is the best way forward rather than allowing the Banana Republicans to control the narrative and shut him down. Trump will be deprived of his "You're Fired!" moment of triumph he has been hungering after.
It is impossible for the investigations to go forward so to drop them before Trump has power makes perfect sense.
Jack Smith has read the room and decided resignation is the best way forward rather than allowing the Banana Republicans to control the narrative and shut him down. Trump will be deprived of his "You're Fired!" moment of triumph he has been hungering after.
It is impossible for the investigations to go forward so to drop them before Trump has power makes perfect sense.
I don't read enough to have a strong opinion about whether he's doing the right thing. Even if it is (for reasons you mentioned or other reasons), the way the majority of the public views it is critical. And I fear the reaction I described in my original post.
(I don't think Smith should deprive Trump of firing him. If it is completely inappropriate, he should make Trump fire him--or that's my knee-jerk reaction now. Smith may not want to do this because Trump may actually have a legitimate reason to fire him--namely, the DOJ policy that prohibits a sitting POTUS from being prosecuted. If Smith doesn't resign, he could be seen as violating DOJ policy/norms. This, too, will make Smith seem political.)
He wouldn't be able to complete his final report if he didn't first set an end date for his investigation ... would he? It seems like getting that report on the record (HOPEFULLY the public record) is the important thing now.
I'm unclear about the importance of completing the final report. Is this to have as a matter of record, the reasons he's ending the investigations? And if he doesn't make this a matter of record, this allows Trump to create his own narrative?
Jack Smith has read the room and decided resignation is the best way forward rather than allowing the Banana Republicans to control the narrative and shut him down. Trump will be deprived of his "You're Fired!" moment of triumph he has been hungering after.
It is impossible for the investigations to go forward so to drop them before Trump has power makes perfect sense.
I don't read enough to have a strong opinion about whether he's doing the right thing. Even if it is (for reasons you mentioned or other reasons), the way the majority of the public views it is critical. And I fear the reaction I described in my original post.
(I don't think Smith should deprive Trump of firing him. If it is completely inappropriate, he should make Trump fire him--or that's my knee-jerk reaction now. Smith may not want to do this because Trump may actually have a legitimate reason to fire him--namely, the DOJ policy that prohibits a sitting POTUS from being prosecuted. If Smith doesn't resign, he could be seen as violating DOJ policy/norms. This, too, will make Smith seem political.)
He wouldn't be able to complete his final report if he didn't first set an end date for his investigation ... would he? It seems like getting that report on the record (HOPEFULLY the public record) is the important thing now.
I'm unclear about the importance of completing the final report. Is this to have as a matter of record, the reasons he's ending the investigations? And if he doesn't make this a matter of record, this allows Trump to create his own narrative?
Not the reasons he's ending the investigation, the facts he discovered during the investigation.