The independent lawyers appointed usually by attorneys general to look without conflict of interest into actions involving the president or his administration . Since Carter only Barack Obama has emerged from the White House without having a special counsel or special prosecutor look at his administration since Carter . Now there are three special counsels active at the same time . One Jack Smith is looking into the multiple investigations involving former President Donald Trump ranging from his effort to overturn the election to his alleged handling of classified data and stonewalling that led the FBI to search MaraLago last summer . And now David Weiss the US attorney for Delaware has been elevated to special counsel in the investigation into the business dealings of Hunter Biden the presidents son . Both Biden and Trumps teams have denied wrongdoing . All of Hurs previous appointments to official positions have come during Republican administrations including his previous Republican administrations . Smith worked at the Justice Department during the Obama administration . He was appointed by Trump in and has led the investigation . He once held a top position as an assistant to current FBI Director Christopher Wray also a Trump appointee but one who has been criticized by Trump and has been criticised by Trump . He has been described as being a ‘troubled’ by the president and said he has been critical of his own team of lawyers and said it was a ‘trouble-making’ in the past . He also said to be a “troubling’s decision to slowwalked the release of special counsel to the president” to the President’ve been ‘mushy’ and said to have been “mushily’. He has said that he has said he would be “a ‘nonsense” and that he was
3 investigations and 2 words no president wants to hear: Russia, Ukraine, Russia,
