Special Counsel Jack Smith required to submit Trump findings to DOJ before leaving. What happens next?

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : The Justice Department declined to respond to Fox News's request for comment on the status of the report or whether Garland plans to share it publicly.Smith has long pointed to Dec. 2 as the deadline for his team to submit their final status reports to the federal judges in the D.C. and the 11th Circuit Courts summarizing the results of their investigations into the cases against Trump, which were dismissed without prejudice late last month.
38% : Smith -- a longtime prosecutor who worked in The Hague and at the Justice Department, including as chief of the DOJ's Public Integrity Section -- was tapped by Garland in 2022 to investigate both the alleged effort by Trump and his allies to overturn the results of the 2020 election, as well as Trump's keeping of allegedly classified documents at his Florida residence.
37% : Smith, for his part, is expected to resign before Trump's inauguration, and his team of prosecutors has moved in recent weeks to wind down their cases against Trump.
30% : Trump, for his part, had railed against the special counsel investigation as a politically motivated "witch hunt" and vowed during his presidential campaign to fire Smith "within two seconds," if elected.
24% : 'IT'S A SETBACK': DEMOCRATS CRITICIZE BIDEN OVER HUNTER PARDONLate last month, Smith filed motions to vacate deadlines in both cases against Trump following his election, citing an Office of Legal Counsel memo that states it is against Department of Justice policy to investigate a sitting president for federal criminal charges and is a violation of the separation of powers doctrine.
16% : Smith had indicted Trump in D.C. earlier this year on charges stemming from the former president's alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election outcome, and his team also brought federal charges against Trump in Florida in the classified documents case.

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