US justice Dept taps independent prosecutor for Trump probes

WASHINGTON: The US Justice Department on Friday named a former war crimes investigator as a special counsel to oversee criminal probes into Donald Trumps three days after the former president announced a new White House’s run in 2024.

Trump—who claims to be the target of a witch hunt”- slammed the dramatic move as unfair and the worst politicised of justice in our country .”

The White House strongly denied any political interference but the unprecedented special counsel investigation of a former president and current presidential candidate sets the stage for a drawn out legal battle.

At a press conference Attorney General Merrick Garland announced the appointment of jack Smith until recently a chief prosecutor’s in The Hague charged with probing Kosovo war crimes to take over the tow ongoing federal probe’s into trump.

One is focused on the former presidents efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election and the January 6,2021, attack on the US Capitol by his supporters.

The other is an investigation into a cache of classified government documents seized in an FBI raid in Florida in August.

Garland said naming a special counsel was in the public interest because both the Republican Trump and his Democratic Successor Joe Biden have stated their intention to run in 2024 although only Trump has officially declared for now.

The horrendous abuse of power is the latest in a long series of witch hunts he said to Applause.

Trump claimed in an interview with Fox News Digital that he was being targeted by the Biden administration to prevent him winning back the presidency.

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