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Let's review: Pres. Joe Biden appointed Atty. Gen. Merrick Garland in 2021. Garland appointed Atty. Jack Smith as a Special Counsel to handle these cases on November 18, 2022. He served in that role for 2 years, 1 month, and 20 days. In that span, he diligently pursued the cases in the face of, let's be real, unbelievable levels of bullshit:

He got a grand jury to issue an indictment on the classified document mishandling charges on June 8, 2023. The case got assigned to MAGA patsy Aileen Cannon, who slow-walked every step, and then on July 15, 2024, outright dismissed the case on the grounds that Smith's appointment wasn't Constitutional. Smith filed an appeal of that ruling to the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on July 17, 2024.

He also got a grand jury to issue an indictment on the insurrection charges on August 1, 2023. That case was appealed to the SCOTUS, which ruled on July 1, 2024 that—perhaps the biggest bullshit of all—the President is immune from prosecution for official acts. Nevertheless, Smith came back with amended charges showing that fomenting an insurrection was a personal act, not an official one.

Both of those cases were still pending when the election happened. It's entirely clear that the new President would fire Smith and end both cases, so he filed to dismiss him as a defendant in the classified documents case, leaving the appeal still pending with regard to two other defendants. The DOJ undercut him by determining that the insurrection case cannot proceed while the defendant is President, so Smith had to file to have it dismissed. Then, he resigned ahead of being fired. As part of the duties of Special Counsel, he produced a report of his activities to submit to the Attorney General who appointed him. That's what this article is about—his report—which is supposed to come at the end of his term of office.

So I don't know what you expected him to do. It wasn't nearly 4 years, and he certainly did not sit on his ass. The new President might still lock him up, or at least pursue other forms of retribution, which makes Jack Smith one of the few honorable people standing up for the rule of law despite personal consequences.

...Special Counsel for the Department of Justice from November 18, 2022 until his resignation on January 10, 2025

Less than 2 years to get Trump. I don't blame Smith. I blame Garland and Biden for treading so softly around such a corrupt SOB simply for the optics of fairness.

Fairness for the American people would have been announcing investigations in to Trump during Biden's inauguration speech, indicting him 14 days later and placing him on (at least) house arrest so that he can only make public statements through his lawyers, who are compelled to tell the truth.

Yeah, nah, it's not Jacks fault.