Special counsel Jack Smith finds himself in a precarious position now that President-elect Donald Trump defeated Vice President Kamala Harris.

The special counsel filed a request with the court on Friday to remove all deadlines in his case against the president-elect, signaling the closure of his case, CNN reported.

“As a result of the elections held on November 5, 2024, the defendant is expected to be certified as president-elect on January 6, 2025 and take office on January 20, 2025. The Government respectfully requests that the Court vacate the deadlines remaining in the pretrial calendar to allow the Government time to evaluate this unprecedented circumstance and determine the appropriate course to follow consistent with Department of Justice policy,” prosecutors told U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan.

“By December 2, 2024, the Government will submit a status report or otherwise inform the Court of the outcome of its deliberations,” they said.

But now Smith is the one in the hot seat, as House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan and Republican Rep. Barry Loudermilk, who is leading the year’s Committee 6 investigation, sent him a letter telling you to keep your records.

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And Republican Rep. Wesley Hunt spoke to conservative podcaster Benny Johnson and said Smith could be the one who goes to prison.

“Jack Smith will be the first person on this list. If you don’t run for Congress, you’ll go to jail. They put Steve Bannon in jail. “Those are the rules,” he said. saying.

In a biography scheduled for release a week before the election, Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell expressed his support for special counsel Jack Smith and said he hopes former President Trump “pays a price” for his actions related to the January 6.

axios reported that while “McConnell has long been a critic of Trump… a new book supports some of the most serious federal charges against Trump.”

“If he hasn’t committed indictable crimes, I don’t know what he is,” the longest-serving Republican leader told journalist Michael Tackett in an interview for “The price of power” just weeks after Smith became the first prosecutor to file charges against a former president in August 2023.

“From the beginning, McConnell thought the charges brought by federal prosecutors against Trump had merit,” Tackett wrote. McConnell told him, “There’s no question who inspired you, and I just hope you have to pay a price for it,” referring to the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol.

An unarmed Trump supporter, Air Force veteran Ashli ​​Babbitt, 36, was shot and killed by a US Capitol Police lieutenant with a dubious past and died during the riot. In January of this year, his family filed a $30 million wrongful death lawsuit against the U.S. government.

“Tackett’s book reveals how seriously McConnell considered voting to convict Trump on related impeachment charges in 2021,” Axios reported. “The conviction could have led the Senate to bar Trump from running for office again.”

The Republican leader seriously considered voting in favor of conviction, according to an interview he gave for the book a week after the riot.

“I am not at all conflicted about whether what the president did is an impeachable crime. I think so,” McConnell said in the oral history interview.

McConnell claimed that Trump urged people to storm the US Capitol, adding that “it’s as close to an impeachable crime as you can imagine.” But Trump never actually urged his supporters to storm the building; During a “Stop the Steal” speech on the Ellipse, he explicitly asked his followers to “peacefully march” to the Capitol and be heard.

In the end, McConnell, a Kentucky Republican, voted to acquit because Trump had already left office.