BREAKING: Formal Investigation Launched Into Jack Smith

The Office of Special Counsel (OSC) has launched a formal investigation into Jack Smith, a former special counsel who led both of the Biden-led Justice Department’s criminal cases against President Donald Trump.

In his capacity as a special counsel, Smith launched two separate criminal investigations into the Biden Administration’s chief political rival. The first case spawned dozens of felony charges for alleged mishandling of classified documents before it was eventually tossed by U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, who ruled that Smith’s appointment did not follow constitutional procedure.

The second case, which involved Trump’s legal challenges to the 2020 presidential election, was cut in half when the Supreme Court issued their ruling on presidential immunity last year. It was ultimately scrapped entirely after Trump won re-election this past November.

According to an email obtained by the New York Post, a formal review of Smith’s conduct has been launched by the Hatch Act Unit, which enforces a law restricting government employees from engaging in political activities. The email was penned by Senior Counsel Charles Baldis at the Office of Special Counsel.

“I appreciate the Office of Special Counsel taking this seriously and launching an investigation into Jack Smith’s conduct. No one is above the law,” Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) told the outlet. “Jack Smith’s actions were clearly driven to hurt President Trump’s election, and Smith should be held fully accountable.”

The OSC formally green-lit the investigation earlier this week after Cotton penned a letter alleging that Smith blatantly weaponized his position to undermine President Trump’s election campaign. “Jack Smith’s legal actions were nothing more than a tool for the Biden and Harris campaigns. This isn’t just unethical, it is very likely illegal campaign activity from a public office,” the senator posted on X.

Smith, who resigned from the OSC not long before President Trump was sworn in back in January, has been widely criticized by Republicans for employing shaky legal theories and heavy-handed tactics in what many, including President Trump, have referred to as “election interference.”

In a letter sent by GOP senators to Attorney General Pam Bondi earlier this year, it was revealed that Smith worked closely with the Biden DOJ despite presenting himself as an impartial arbiter of the law. Whistleblowers close to Smith’s investigation told the lawmakers that Smith and other anti-Trump FBI members participated in an exchange of cell phone data between Trump and former Vice President Mike Pence as part of Smith’s “Arctic Frost” investigation.

“Overall, these newly disclosed emails show the extensive collaboration between and among select FBI agents from the Washington Field Office and prosecutors from the U.S. Attorney’s Office – Washington D.C. to plan, approve and execute Arctic Frost,” Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) wrote in the letter.

“The emails also provide further support that ASAC Thibault played a central role in advancing its approval to a full field criminal investigation when other agents had concerns the supporting evidence only allowed for a preliminary investigation.”

“Lastly, the emails illustrate the Biden White House’s personal involvement in providing former President Trump and former Vice President Pence’s phones to the FBI at their request when neither of them was a subject of the investigation at that point in time,” Grassley added.

In addition to secretly collaborating with main DOJ, Smith also worked with Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who brought a failed racketeering case against Trump and a number of key allies over his challenges to the 2020 presidential election in Georgia. Communications between the two officers were uncovered in a lawsuit after both Smith and Willis claimed they had worked independently.