Jack Smith taps war crimes prosecutor to help put away Trump: report

Special counsel Jack Smith, who cut his teeth prosecuting war crimes at The Hague, has tapped his deputy from those prosecutions to help him in the investigations of former President Donald Trump, reported POLITICO on Friday.

"Alex Whiting worked alongside Smith for three years, helping prosecute crimes against humanity that occurred in Kosovo in the late 1990s," reported Kyle Cheney. "The Yale-educated attorney also worked as a prosecutor with the International Criminal Court from 2010 to 2013. He has taught law classes at Harvard since 2007 as well, hired as an assistant professor by then-Dean Elena Kagan — now a Supreme Court justice — and rising to a visiting professorship in 2013."

The role Whiting is performing for the special counsel is not currently known; however, according to the report, he has been seen multiple times this week at the district courthouse in Washington, D.C.

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Smith's hiring of his old war crimes associate, Cheney wrote, is a sign that he is "gearing up for a new phase of his efforts — preparing for trials that could send a former president to prison for the first time in U.S. history."

Trump is facing two separate prosecutions from Smith: one regarding the concealment of highly classified national defense information at his Mar-a-Lago country club, and a conspiracy case for trying to overturn the 2020 presidential election.

The former president denies that he has done anything wrong in either case.