Special Counsel Jack Smith made a strong statement regarding the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot on Tuesday. He claimed that misinformation spread by former President Donald Trump was the driving force behind the violent incident. Smith has therefore accused Donald Trump of a number of grave charges, including conspiring to defraud the United States, scheming to disenfranchise voters, and conspiring and attempting to hinder an official action.

Trump was recently indicted by a grand jury in the January 6 capital riots.

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Former Justice Department prosecutor Jack Smith has been named as the special counsel appointed by Attorney General Merrick Garland to lead the criminal investigations into the storage of classified documents at the Mar-a-Lago resort owned by former President Donald Trump and into some aspects of the January 6, 2021 uprising.

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Who is Jack Smith?

Previously serving as the head prosecutor for the special court in The Hague, where he looked into war crimes committed during the Kosovo War, Jack Smith, the recently appointed special counsel in the Trump investigations, most recently held that position.

Prior to The Hague, Smith worked as the nation’s largest non-governmental healthcare provider, Hospital Corporation of America, vice president of litigation.

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As an assistant district attorney with the New York County District Attorney’s Office, Smith started his career as a prosecutor in 1994. According to a biography provided by the Justice Department, he was appointed an assistant U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York in 1999 and served there for nine years, prosecuting crimes such as gang-related killings of police officers and civil rights violations.

Smith managed war crimes inquiries while employed by the International Criminal Court from 2008 to 2010.

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In 2010, Smith made a comeback to the Justice Department, where he served as the section’s chief and was in charge of managing inquiries into electoral fraud and public corruption. Before taking on the role of acting US attorney, he worked as the Middle District of Tennessee’s first assistant US attorney in 2015.