Elise Stefanik Takes Action Against Special Counsel Jack Smith's Election Interference - 'Fight The Democrats Unjust Lawfare And Expose This Corruption'

On Tuesday, Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) filed an official ethics complaint with the Department of Justice's Office of Professional Responsibility against special counsel Jack Smith, claiming that Smith is interfering in the 2024 presidential election with the indictments he brought against presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump last year.

In her complaint to Office of Professional Responsibility counsel Jeffrey Ragsdale, Rep. Stefanik, who is rumored to be a potential vice presidential pick for Trump, pointed out a serious violation. She stated that Smith's attempt to expedite his case to trial before the election is a clear breach of the Department of Justice's long-standing policy. This policy strictly prohibits timing investigations to aid a certain political candidate. "Biden special counsel Jack Smith is attempting to expedite the trial in order to influence the general election in November," she wrote. 

Rep. Stefanik further detailed the alleged misconduct of Smith and his team. She asserted that they have repeatedly violated the court-ordered stay by serving 4,000 pages of discovery to Trump's legal team and making a pretrial motion in district court. This, she argued, is a clear indication of Smith's conduct bringing disrepute to the Department of Justice and the entire federal government. "The DOJ's Office of Professional Responsibility should impose the discipline that such conduct warrants," the lawmaker added.

The New York representative demanded that Ragsdale open an investigation into Smith immediately for his actions that attempted to "politicize his criminal prosecution" and interfere in the general election against Trump. During a press conference after Stefanik issued the complaint, she reconfirmed her resolve to fight back against the various prosecutors going after the former president.

"Democrats' corrupt and desperate witch hunts against President Trump must come to an end. This is lawfare and blatant election interference, and the American people know it. That is why today I filed an official complaint with the Department of Justice Office of Professional Responsibility on Joe Biden's special counsel, Jack Smith, for his clear and illegal efforts of election interference," she said. "We will fight the Democrats unjust lawfare and expose this corruption whether it is in New York, Atlanta, or right here in Washington, DC."

President Trump is currently facing four criminal indictments against him. The first, which is currently underway in New York City, was brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg (D) in which the DA's office charged Trump with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records by writing down in business ledgers that hush money payments to adult film actress Stormy Daniels were legal payments to Trump's personal attorney, Michael Cohen. The other case brought by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis (D) alleges that Trump and 18 other co-defendants attempted to illegally overturn the 2020 election. Special counsel Jack Smith brought the last two indictments, with one being focused on the 2020 election and the other focused on classified documents Trump allegedly took with him post-presidency to Mar-a-Lago.

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Democrats’ corrupt and desperate witch hunts against President Trump must come to an end. This is lawfare and blatant election interference and the American people know it. That is why today I filed an official complaint with the Department of Justice Office of Professional… pic.twitter.com/yo61lAbnnD

— Rep. Elise Stefanik (@RepStefanik) April 30, 2024

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