“The pace of investigations will not stop or slow down under my watch,” he said.
In the few photos of him circulating online, Smith, a very sporty man who claims to have completed more than 100 triathlons in the United States and abroad, conveys an austere image.
A few days ago, an NBC News reporter found him on a Washington street after tracking his movements. In the short video, Jack Smith ignores the journalist’s presence and does not answer any of the questions about the impending impeachment of Donald Trump.
The lawyer “has become very involved” in the investigation and is considered “a bulldog, very aggressive” for the methods he uses, according to an MSNBC journalist.
Jack Smith graduated from Harvard Law School and worked as a prosecutor in the states of New York and Tennessee.
For five years he also headed the Justice Ministry’s public integrity unit, overseeing corruption investigations against Democratic and Republican politicians.
Later, as chief prosecutor of the Special Court for Kosovo, he lived for several years in The Hague.
Appointing him in November, the attorney general said that, given the “exceptional circumstances,” Jack Smith was “the right choice” to oversee the two investigations “urgently and impartially.”