According to a report from The New York Times, the special counsel behind two of the federal law-fare prosecutions against Donald Trump will be wrapping up his work and stepping down right before Trump takes office in January.
What a coincidence!
Based on what "people familiar with his plans" told the NYT - whatever that means - his goal is "to not leave any significant part of his work for others to complete and to get ahead of the president-elect's promise to fire him within 'two seconds' of being sworn in."
I feel like waiting two seconds would have been wasting valuable seconds...
Smith's work might as well be thrown in the shredder at this point - many would argue it belonged there from the start - given that Trump's electoral victory stands as the voice of an ultimate jury: the American people.
But because these valuable documents might actually find their way into a shredder, Republicans are acting to prevent the destruction of investigation records so that the Biden/Harris administration can't pull a Hillary Clinton on their way out.
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