Trump’s fury over special investigator

Former US president Donald Trump has called the appointment of a special counsel to investigate the presence of classified documents at his Florida estate a “horrendous abuse of power”.

US attorney general Merrick Garland on Friday named veteran prosecutor Jack Smith to oversee the Justice Department’s probe into the documents as well as key aspects of a separate investigation involving the January 6, 2021 insurrection and efforts to undo the 2020 election.

Responding to the news, Mr Trump called it an “appalling announcement today by the egregiously corrupt Biden administration and their weaponised Department of Justice”.