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Special counsel Jack Smith speaks to reporters Friday, June 9, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) **FILE**

Trump lawyers meet with special counsel Jack Smith ahead of expected federal indictment

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Special counsel Jack Smith speaks to reporters June 9, 2023, in Washington. Lawyers for Donald Trump met on July 27, with members of special counsel Jack Smith's team as a potential indictment loomed over the former president's efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election, according to a person familiar with the matter. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Trump says his lawyers have met with prosecutors ahead of possible 2020 election indictment

By Eric Tucker - Associated Press

Special counsel Jack Smith speaks to reporters Friday, June 9, 2023, in Washington. Former President Donald Trump is facing 37 felony charges related to the mishandling of classified documents according to an indictment unsealed on Friday. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Special counsel Jack Smith to get his own bobblehead

By Matt Delaney - The Washington Times

Special counsel Jack Smith speaks to reporters Friday, June 9, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) **FILE**

Special counsel digs up obscure laws to build cases against Trump

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Special counsel Jack Smith speaks to reporters Friday, June 9, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) **FILE**

Gaetz introduces legislation to defund special counsel probe of Trump

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

Former President Donald Trump speaks at the Turning Point Action conference, Saturday, July 15, 2023, in West Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

Trump says he received a target letter from Jack Smith probe into Jan. 6

By Jeff Mordock, Alex Miller and Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Special counsel Jack Smith speaks to reporters Friday, June 9, 2023, in Washington. Former President Donald Trump is facing 37 felony charges related to the mishandling of classified documents according to an indictment unsealed on Friday. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) ** FILE **

Trump says special counsel Jack Smith ‘looks like a crackhead’ as he fumes over W.H. cocaine affair

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Former President Donald Trump listens as he speaks with reporters while in flight on his plane after a campaign rally at Waco Regional Airport, in Waco, Texas, on March 25, 2023, while en route to West Palm Beach, Fla. An audio recording that includes new details from a 2021 meeting in Bedminster, New Jersey, where former President Donald Trump discusses holding secret documents he did not declassify has been released. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Trump says Bedminster audio was leaked to hurt 2024 bid

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Attorney General Merrick Garland speaks during a meeting with all of the U.S. Attorneys to discuss violent crime reduction strategies at the Department of Justice in Washington, Wednesday, June 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Attorney General Garland keeps poker face as firestorm erupts after Trump charges

By Lindsay Whitehurst - Associated Press

Former President Donald Trump gestures before boarding his personal plane at Miami International Airport, Tuesday, June 13, 2023, in Miami. Trump appeared in federal court Tuesday on dozens of felony charges accusing him of illegally hoarding classified documents and thwarting the Justice Department's efforts to get the records back. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Multiple defenses open to Trump in classified documents case

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Special counsel Jack Smith speaks to reporters Friday, June 9, 2023, in Washington. Former President Donald Trump is facing 37 felony charges related to the mishandling of classified documents according to an indictment unsealed on Friday. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) **FILE**

Jack Smith and his secret staff takedown of Trump

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Gregg Donovan of Calif., rallies outside the Wilkie D. Ferguson Jr. U.S. Courthouse, Tuesday, June 13, 2023, in Miami. Former President Donald Trump is making a federal court appearance today on dozens of felony charges accusing him of illegally hoarding classified documents and thwarting the Justice Department's efforts to get the records back. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Prosecutors’ zeal shapes federal case against Trump, seen as ‘weaponizing the Justice Department’

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Special counsel Jack Smith speaks to reporters Friday, June 9, 2023, in Washington. Former President Donald Trump is facing 37 felony charges related to the mishandling of classified documents according to an indictment unsealed on Friday. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Jack Smith says he will seek speedy trial in Trump classified documents case

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Former President Donald Trump speaks as he announces a third run for President, at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla., Nov. 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)

Trump braces for possible federal charges after being warned he’s a target of documents probe

By Eric Tucker, Jill Colvin and Michael Balsamo - Associated Press

Former President Donald Trump speaks as he announces a third run for President, at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla., Nov. 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)

Trump says he’s been indicted, summoned to appear at the federal courthouse in Miami on Tuesday

By Tom Howell Jr. and Susan Ferrechio - The Washington Times

Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, speaks during a House Select Subcommittee hearing, Tuesday, April 18, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Federal Judge Mary Kay Vyskocil, weighing whether House Republicans can question a former prosecutor about the Manhattan criminal case against former President Donald Trump, posed dozens of questions, in New York, Wednesday, April 19, 2023, to lawyers on both sides, asking them to parse thorny issues of sovereignty, separation of powers and Congressional oversight arising from Trump's historic indictment. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

Jordan wants to know depth of FBI’s role in special counsel’s probe of Trump

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

President Donald Trump speaks during a rally protesting the electoral college certification of Joe Biden as President in Washington, Jan. 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Proud Boys 1/6 verdict boosts Justice Dept. in Trump probe

By Alanna Durkin Richer, Michael Kunzelman and Eric Tucker - Associated Press

Jack Smith, the Department of Justice's chief of the Public Integrity Section, poses for a photo at the Department of Justice in Washington, Aug. 24, 2010. Smith, the prosecutor named as special counsel to oversee investigations related to former President Donald Trump, has a long career confronting public corruption and war crimes. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

House GOP lawmakers eye their renewed congressional power to defund special counsel pursuing Trump

By Susan Ferrechio - The Washington Times

Prosecutor Jack Smith listens as Hashim Thaci, not pictured, makes his first courtroom appearance before a judge at the Kosovo Specialist Chambers court in The Hague, Netherlands, Nov. 9, 2020. Attorney General Merrick Garland named Smith a special counsel on Friday, Nov. 18, 2022, to oversee the Justice Department's investigation into the presence of classified documents at former President Donald Trump's Florida estate as well as key aspects of a separate probe involving the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection and efforts to undo the 2020 election. (Jerry Lampen/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Special counsel subpoenas Trump-linked local officials in probe of purported fake electors scheme

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Illustration on the DOJ assault on Trump by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Jack Smith and the DOJ want to select the next president

By Michael McKenna