"I would fire him within two seconds,” Trump told radio show host Hugh Hewitt. Smith is the top prosecutor in two cases against Trump, one involving efforts to overturn the 2020 election and the other dealing with taking classified documents when he left office.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said on Thursday that if elected he would fire the federal prosecutor leading the criminal probes into his attempts to overturn his 2020 election defeat and alleged mishandling of classified documents after leaving office.

GOP presidential candidate and convicted felon Donald Trump said Thursday that, if he's re-elected, he will fire special counsel Jack Smith.

Former President Donald Trump stated he would “fire” Special Counsel Jack Smith “within two seconds” if re-elected, intensifying his confrontation with the prosecutor who has indicted him in two federal cases. In a radio interview, Trump labeled Smith a “crooked person” and dismissed concerns about potential impeachment over such a move.

"We don't want to get indicted or arrested, like they were last time," says one source involved with the vast Trump 2024 legal effort

Lawyers for former President Donald Trump told a federal judge Thursday that the election interference case against him should be dismissed, arguing that special counsel Jack Smith was illegally appointed and that funding for his office should be cut off.

The lawyers of US presidential candidate Donald Trump are trying to wrap up the case of his attempts to change the outcome of the 2020 election, criticizing the prosecutor in charge of the case, reports The Hill.