By Hailey Gomez, Daily Caller News Foundation | February 17, 2025
Legal analyst Gregg Jarrett said Monday on Fox Business that former special counsel Jack Smith’s “cozy arrangement” with outside lawyers should be investigated by the Department of Justice’s (DOJ’s) Pam Bondi.
Smith, who led two legal cases against President Donald Trump, disclosed Friday that he had received $140,000 in pro bono legal services from the prominent Washington, D.C., law firm Covington & Burling prior to his departure from the DOJ, Politico first reported. On “The Evening Edit,” Fox host Elizabeth McDonald asked Jarrett about the new information regarding Smith, asking if the legal expert expects “any civil or legal or ethics probe” into Smith.
“Yeah, I mean, just taking this gift, for example, from a firm aligned with Democrats only fortifies the evidence of political bias and maybe corruption that drove the lawfare campaign against Trump,” Jarrett said. “This cozy arrangement, I think, demands further disclosure, more investigation.”
“Was it related to the two prosecutions he brought against Trump? Did Garland know about it? The ethics are highly questionable whether it was sanctioned or not. It’s exactly why I argued in a column on Fox News that Jack Smith should be investigated by the incoming DOJ,” Jarrett added.
While it is unclear what legal advice Smith was seeking, Politico obtained the disclosure filed on Jan. 10, after the former special counsel submitted his resignation from the DOJ a day later. The prominent law firm has been linked to transgender activists using litigation to push for child sex changes, while also assisting an organization that trains judges to view cases through the lens of gender ideology.
Smith’s departure from the department came before President Donald Trump’s inauguration and the confirmation of Pam Bondi as Trump’s new attorney general. Upon her confirmation, one of Bondi’s first actions was establishing a Weaponization Working Group, which will investigate Smith’s targeting of Trump.
“In fact, Pam Bondi has now launched that probe. If lawfare prosecutors like Smith manipulated the law to damage Trump’s political campaign, that is a criminal violation of his civil rights under the federal codes. Prosecutors could be prosecuted,” Jarrett said.
Following Trump’s inauguration, more than a dozen officials who worked on Smith’s cases against Trump were fired, a DOJ official told the Daily Caller News Foundation. Due to their involvement in cases related to Trump’s classified documents and the 2020 election, acting Attorney General James McHenry told Fox News that they were uncertain whether the group would “faithfully [be] implementing the president’s agenda.”
Hailey Gomez is a general assignment reporter at the Daily Caller News Foundation
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