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In order to persuade a lady to testify as a witness in a domestic abuse case, he once spent a weekend sleeping in the hallway of an apartment building, according to the Associated Press (AP).

Mr. Smith was also involved in the investigation into the infamous New York police beating of Haitian immigrant Abner Louima with a broomstick at the same time.

According to the New York Times, his work on the team contributed to his recommendation for special counsel in the Trump cases.

(Investigations are being conducted into Trump’s involvement in the incidents that led to the Capitol violence)

In 2008, Mr. Smith traveled to The Hague, Netherlands, where he worked as a junior investigator for the International Criminal Court and managed war crimes investigations.

Two years later, he returned to the Justice Department as the head of the division responsible for prosecuting federal offenses like election fraud and public corruption.

He defined the career change as leaving “the dream job for a better one” in an AP interview from 2010.

However, the unit was still in recovery mode when he took over after a prosecution fiasco that resulted in a judge tossing out a significant criminal conviction.

While some lengthy investigations involving members of Congress were concluded without charges at the beginning of Mr. Smith’s tenure, he continued with other initiatives.

During his time in office, prosecutors filed a public corruption prosecution against Republican former Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell, which the US Supreme Court unanimously decided to dismiss in 2016.

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The team also brought charges against former Democratic vice-presidential candidate John Edwards; however, the jury found him not guilty on certain counts and deadlocked on others, and he was never brought to trial again.

Using these instances, Mr. Trump has claimed that Mr. Smith has “destroyed a lot of lives” and has criticized him for his supposed role in a tax scam involving the purported targeting of conservative organizations.

On Thursday, the former president told Breitbart, “What he’s done is just horrible.” “Power abuse is prosecutorial misconduct,” the speaker said.

Sheldon Silver, the former speaker of the New York state Assembly, was sentenced to prison on corruption charges, one of Mr. Smith’s many famous successes.

Additionally, he found Republican ex-congressman Rick Renzi of Arizona guilty of corruption. Trump then granted Mr. Renzi a presidential pardon.

(Mr. Smith has been accused of “prosecutorial misconduct” by Mr. Trump)

In order to be nearer to his family, Mr. Smith accepted a position with the federal prosecutor’s office in Nashville, Tennessee, in 2015.

He departed in 2017 to work for a private healthcare organization after the Trump administration rejected him for a permanent position.

By 2018, he had returned to The Hague, where he had accepted a position as the court’s head prosecutor for charges of war crimes related to the conflict in Kosovo in the 1990s.

According to the Times, Mr. Garland’s team was preparing for the prosecution of Kosovo’s former president Hashim Thaci when he made the job offer to Mr. Smith for special counsel in Washington.

Although anxious to return to the Justice Department, Mr. Smith did not come back to the US until January 2021 because he was still recovering from surgery on his left leg following a bicycling accident.

It is at least his second significant cycling-related injury.

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He shattered his pelvis in the 2000s after being hit by a truck, which he stated in an interview required numerous sessions of physical treatment.

Mr. Smith, who enjoys cycling and running equally, has participated in more than 100 triathlons since 2002, even representing Team USA in the World Triathlon.

His friend and former coworker, New York attorney Moe Fodeman, described Mr. Smith to CNN last year as “one of the best trial lawyers I have ever seen” and a “literally insane” triathlete.

Other former coworkers have praised Mr. Smith for being courageous and proactive, and many believe that Mr. Trump’s attempts to disparage him will be ineffective.

In a 2010 interview with the Times, Mr. Smith stated, “If I were the kind of person who could be intimidated — ‘I know we should pursue this case, I know the guy did it, but we could lose, I would change my career if it would make me appear awful.

I find it hard to believe that someone who works with me or does what I do would think that.