Special counsel Jack Smith's two federal indictments against President-elect Donald Trump came to an end when he asked for the election interference case to be dismissed without prejudice and motioned to withdraw his appeal of Judge Aileen Cannon's dismissal of the classified documents case.

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Smith moved to terminate his case against Trump related to classified documents, effectively ending the second of the DOJ's two criminal prosecutions.

The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday granted a request from special counsel Jack Smith to drop President-elect Trump’s Florida documents case, ending the battle to charge him over retaining records with classified markings after leaving office.

Special counsel Jack Smith moved to abandon two criminal cases against Donald Trump on Monday, acknowledging that Trump’s return to the White House will preclude attempts to federally prosecute him for retaining classified documents or trying to overturn his 2020 election defeat.