Special Counsel Jack Smith quietly withdrew a subpoena seeking records from former President Trump’s 2020 campaign over the weekend.
Smith’s office dropped the subpoena request from Trump’s campaign following the withdrawal of a similar subpoena to Save America, the PAC formed by Trump’s aides.
The rescinding of the subpoenas to Donald J. Trump for President Inc. and Save America indicated that Smith’s office was slowing or even ending its months-long investigation into whether Trump’s political operation violated any laws by using election fraud claims to raise funds. The retraction of the subpoena for Save America was first reported by The Washington Post last week. Smith’s team has been attempting to find out, for more than a year, whether Trump and his advisers violated federal wire fraud statutes in their fund-raising, following a path initially followed by the House select committee investigating the events of January 6, 2021.
Prosecutors have been investigating Save America and the Trump campaign since at least November of last year. However, the financials of Smith’s probe were not mentioned in the indictment filed in August, which accused Trump of conspiring to remain in office by overthrowing the 2020 election.
According to reports, no reason was cited for the subpoena withdrawals.
The PAC was formed following the 2020 election and raised more than $100 million and has reportedly spent tens of millions of dollars in legal costs for Trump and others associated with the former president amid multiple investigations at the state and federal level.
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