Jack Smith Pulls Subpoena From Trump-Linked Super PAC

Jack Smith Pulls Subpoena From Trump-Linked Super PAC


Special Counsel Jack Smith has apparently scaled back the scope of one of his investigations into former President Donald Trump, according to a Washington Post report.

The outlet said that Smith has pulled back a subpoena he issued to a Trump-linked fundraising group, the Saving America PAC, citing “people familiar with the matter.”

“The withdrawal of the subpoena earlier this month indicates Smith is scaling back at least part of his inquiry into the political fundraising work that fed and benefited from unfounded claims that the election was stolen, said the people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing criminal investigation,” WaPo reported Tuesday.

The sources told the Post that the organization was in the process of assembling the records demanded by the subpoena when officials were told that Smith pulled the subpoena. His prosecutors had been asking questions about the group’s fundraising operations in the past several months, sources claimed to the Post.

The federal indictment regarding the Jan. 6 riot brought against Trump includes charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction of and attempted obstruction of an official proceeding, and conspiracy against rights. The Save America PAC wasn’t named in the indictments. Trump has pleaded not guilty to all charges.

“It is not unusual for prosecutors to cast a broad net in seeking documents at the outset of an investigation,” former federal prosecutor Robert Mintz told the Post. He added that the withdrawn subpoena “may simply reflect a pragmatic decision to narrow the scope of the investigation.”

The Post report comes on the heels of a gag order issued against Trump in the case by U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan, who is overseeing his case.

“The judge said basically I don’t have the right to speak,” Trump said following the issuing of the order. “My speech has been taken away from me. I’m a candidate that’s running for office, and I’m not allowed to speak.”

Trump’s attorneys have filed an appeal with the U.S. District Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C., in an attempt to get the order overturned.

The Save America PAC was formed in the wake of the 2020 election and has reportedly raised around $100 million. The PAC has been “key source of funding not just for political activities, but also for the legal costs associated with the various state and federal investigations that have resulted in four separate indictments of Trump — the election-obstruction case in D.C., a state-level election-obstruction case in Georgia, a classified-documents case in Florida and a state-level case in New York involving a hush money payment in the 2016 election,” the Post reported.


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