US Watchdog is launching an investigation into the former prosecutor of Trump Jack Smith

An American federal agency opened an official investigation into former special lawyer Jack Smith, who supervised two criminal probes on US President Donald Trump after his first mandate in the White House.

The Office of Special Councils (CSO) confirmed to Reuters that he was investigating the rape of the Trappe Act, a law prohibiting federal employees from using their position for political activity. The decision follows a probe request by the American senator Tom Cotton, a republican of Arkansas.

The OSC is an independent agency that is probe the conduct of federal employees, but it does not have the power to carry criminal charges. It is different from the type of office of the special lawyer supervised previously by Smith, which was appointed by the Ministry of Justice to continue criminal affairs.

The office of the office, which was reported for the first time by the New York Post, is the last in a series of actions taken by Trump and his allies against their perceived political enemies.

Smith, who resigned from his post in January following Trump’s electoral victory, could not be reached immediately to comment.

Earlier this week, Cotton accused Smith of prosecuting his belongings against Trump aggressively in order to harm his presidential campaign, calling Smith “a political actor pretending to be a civil servant”, in a series of messages on the X social media platform.

“This is why I asked that this unprecedented interference in the 2024 elections was immediately studied by OSC,” wrote Cotton.

Former prosecutor of war crimes, Smith carried two criminal cases against Trump – one accusing him of illegally preserving classified equipment and another linked to Trump’s attempts to overthrow his electoral loss in 2020, an effort that sparked on January 6, 2021, assault on American Capitol.

None of the two cases was tried, after being delayed and shaken by a series of judicial disputes, including a decision by the conservative majority of the United States Supreme Court which gave the former presidents a broad immunity against criminal proceedings.

Smith abandoned the two cases after Trump won the elections of last November, citing a long -standing policy of the Ministry of Justice against the prosecution of an in office, but he published a report in January saying that the evidence he had collected would have been enough to condemn Trump to the trial.

Trump denied reprehensible acts and attacked prosecution as attempts at political motivation to harm his campaign.