Judicial Watch Statement on Jack Smith Moving to Drop Charges Against President Trump

(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton issued the following statement on Special Counsel Jack Smith moving to drop all charges against President Donald Trump:

At last this egregious political persecution comes to an end. This is a good day for the rule of law.

The political decision to seek this dismissal is forced recognition that the American people essentially found President Trump innocent of the political and baseless lawfare charges brought against him by the Democratic Party machine.

The Department of Justice under Joe Biden became a Department of Injustice as it waged lawfare against Donald Trump. Jack Smith’s mission was never anything more than retaliation and election interference at the highest level. The fake charges against Trump were built on sand and about nothing. Judicial Watch and I witnessed firsthand the corruption of Jack Smith’s operation when they forced me to testify for hours before a grand jury over my tweets, election and public policy battles, and what I had for lunch with President Trump.

Biden, Attorney General Merrick Garland, FBI Director Christopher Wray and all the other shady characters at Justice are no less villainous than their puppet Smith. The FBI and Justice Department (and many other Deep State agencies) are irredeemably corrupt. Indeed, even in seeking dismissal, the Biden regime asks the court to keep the option open to further persecute President Trump when he leaves office!

This unprecedented corruption and abuse of power by the Biden regime and its party allies must now be the subject of a thorough criminal investigation.  In the meantime, Judicial Watch will continue to investigate and sue over what has been the worst government corruption in American history.

In his new book Rights and Freedoms in Peril Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton details a long chain of abuses officials and politicians have made against the American people and calls readers to battle for “the soul and survival of America.” The book details how the progressive movement threatens America’s most venerable institutions, undermining the core principles that make this country a beacon of hope to the world.

Judicial Watch filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit in May 2023 after the Justice Department rejected a December 9, 2022, FOIA request for ”staff rosters, phone lists, or similar records depicting all employees hired by or detailed to the office of Special Counsel Jack Smith.”

In February 2024 the Department of Justice asked a federal court to allow the agency to keep secret the names of top staffers working in Special Counsel Jack Smith’s office that is targeting former President Donald Trump and other Americans.

In May 2024 Judicial Watch asked the Superior Court of Fulton County, Georgia, to declare a default judgment against District Attorney Fani Willis in Judicial Watch’s lawsuit seeking records of communications Willis had with Special Counsel Jack Smith and the House January 6 Committee.

Before his appointment to investigate and prosecute Trump, Jack Smith previously was at the center of several other controversial issues, the IRS scandal among them.

In 2014, a Judicial Watch investigation revealed that top IRS officials had been in communication with Jack Smith’s then-Public Integrity Section about a plan to launch criminal investigations into conservative tax-exempt groups. Government officials were looking to step up a probe into requests for tax-exemption from organizations with conservative-sounding names like “Tea Party” and other “political sounding names,” according to a later report by the Treasury Department’s inspector general. Jack Smith appears to have been a key player in this attempt to silence conservative voices.

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