Calls Grow for Jack Smith, Local Prosecutors to End Trump Cases

Multiple Republicans have called on the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and local district attorneys to end their prosecutions of President-elect Donald Trump after he won the 2024 election on Tuesday. “The American people have spoken: the lawfare must end,” House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) wrote in a post on X. “I call on Attorney General Garland, Alvin Bragg, and Fani Willis to immediately terminate the politically motivated prosecutions of President Donald Trump,” he said, referring to Willis, the Fulton County district attorney, and Bragg, the Manhattan district attorney. Former Attorney General Bill Barr, who had served under Trump, told Fox News that prosecutors should “do the right” thing and end their cases against the president-elect....