The man who published the indictment of Hashim Thaçi on the plane while he was traveling in the United States of America, is on the way to a massive failure in the investigation against the American president, Donald Trump.
In fact, the first failure has already occurred. The appointment of Jack Smith, the former chief special counsel, as an investigator of the Trump case was ruled unconstitutional.
This by decision of the Court in the United States of America.
US Attorney Jack Smith, who had investigated and indicted former KLA leaders for war crimes, has found himself seriously challenged in the case against Donald Trump, whose appointment as special consul in the case over documents in residence at Mar-a-Lago, was declared unconstitutional by a federal judge in the United States of America.
This is the latest finding from Judge Aileen M. Cannon, who dismissed the case against Trump in its entirety over “classified documents.”
In the judge’s decision, it was established that the appointment of Jack Smith to the position of special consul was not made by the President nor confirmed by the Senate; and that, therefore, designating him in that way “is a constitutional violation,” the New York Times reported.
“Judge Cannon’s decision, which was handed down by Trump, flew in the face of previous court decisions dating back to the Watergate era that upheld the legality of the ways in which independent prosecutors have been appointed. And in a single move, she dropped a major legal threat against Mr. Trump on the first day of the Republican National Convention, where he will officially become the party’s nominee for president,” the NYT article said.
Donald Trump was indicted last year for keeping national security documents at Mar-a-Lago and obstructing the government’s recall efforts, including partially defying a grand jury subpoena ordering him to return any document classified in the Department of Justice. Trump had pleaded not guilty.
Jack Smith, in order to investigate this case, had resigned from the position of Chief Special Prosecutor in The Hague.
How did Jack Smith resign?
On November 18, 2022, the US State Department issued a press release. There they had determined the name of the person who would oversee the investigation regarding the keeping of calcified documents by the former American president, Donald Trump.
And the name that Trump would investigate was the person who at that time was investigating the leaders of the war in Kosovo. Jack Smith, Chief Prosecutor of the Special Court based in The Hague.
He left the position of Chief Prosecutor shortly before the start of the trial which Smith described as the most important case. That of Hashim Thaçi, Kadri Veseli, Rexhep Selim and Jakup Krasniqi.
“Special prosecutor Smith has resigned as chief prosecutor of the special court in The Hague, charged with the investigation and trial of war crimes in Kosovo” – it was said in the announcement of the US Department of State.
Now, Jack Smith is reported to have officially started his work to supervise the investigations in the case of the former American president, Donald Trump.
A few days after Smith’s departure from the position of Chief Prosecutor, Alex Whiting was appointed acting in his place. Now that position is held by prosecutor Kimberli West.
Smith previously served as vice president and chief litigation officer at USA Hospital Corporation, the largest non-governmental health care organization in the United States, a position he held since September 2017.
From February 2015 to August 2017 Mr. Smith was the first assistant federal prosecutor and the acting federal prosecutor for the middle district in the state of Tennessee (Tennessee).
Since his appointment as an investigative prosecutor in the Trump case, his career has been followed by various affairs, including accusations by US senators and senior officials that he had bribed witnesses in the case of the KLA leaders in The Hague.
