{"id":54667,"date":"2022-11-18T13:41:46","date_gmt":"2022-11-18T21:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=54667"},"modified":"2022-11-18T15:42:13","modified_gmt":"2022-11-18T23:42:13","slug":"attorney-general-garland-names-jack-smith-special-counsel-in-trump-probes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=54667","title":{"rendered":"Attorney General Garland names Jack Smith special counsel in Trump probes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Attorney General\u00a0Merrick Garland\u00a0has appointed a special counsel to oversee the Justice Department\u2019s investigations into Donald Trump just days after the former president announced his intent to see the office again in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Garland said Jack Smith, a longtime prosecutor and current war crimes investigator, would take the helm of two investigations, one into the mishandling of sensitive government records at Mar-a-Lago, as well as aspects of its investigation into Jan. 6. covering \u201cwhether any person or entity unlawfully interfered with the transfer of power.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attorney General\u00a0Merrick Garland\u00a0has appointed a special&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54668,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54667\/revisions\/54668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}