Washington special counsel Jack Smith reentered the public eye on Tuesday with a grand jurys indictment of Donald Trump over his alleged efforts to overturn the election leading up to the January attack on the US Capitol . Trump has denied wrongdoing in both cases and cast Smiths probes as a weaponization of the federal government . Smith has investigated members of both parties handling some of the most highprofile political corruption cases in recent memory with mixed outcomes . His experience ranges from prosecuting a sitting US senator to bringing cases against gang members who were ultimately convicted of murdering New York City police officers . The former president already faced counts stemming from Smiths seperate probe into the former presidents retention of classified documents and conspiracy with a top aide and an employee at MaraLago to hide them from the government and his own attorneys . He also oversaw the investigation into former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay a Republican closing the probe in without bringing charges . He has lived outside of the United States as the chief prosecutor for the special court in The Hague a role he assumed in which he investigated war crimes in Kosovo in recent years . He is currently serving as an assistant US attorney for the US Attorney General of the Middle District of Tennessee taking over as acting US attorney in early . He became vice president of litigation for the Hospital Corporation of America later that year . Smith would go on to serve as an Assistant US Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee in late 2009. He became an attorney in late 2010. He is now an attorney for an assistant of the Southern District of Arkansas. He has been in late 2007. He was the . He worked for the Southern Regional District of the Southwest District of Texas. He also served as an attorney of the Northern District of Alabama. He served as the .