Jack Smith, the hard-charging prosecutor handpicked to convict Donald Trump before Election Day, is finally giving up after Trump's epic re-election victory.

Sources told ABC News that Smith is "winding down" his two prosecutions into Trump, citing the Justice Department policy against prosecuting sitting presidents.

Jack Smith quits

The Justice Department appointed Smith in November of 2022, and he brought two separate cases against Trump after he already launched his historic 2024 campaign.

Both cases ran into obstacles, however. Smith's election interference case was delayed by Trump's appeal on presidential immunity, which the Supreme Court resolved in his favor.

Smith then sought to rework the indictment, but as a jury trial slipped away from him, he released allegations against Trump in an "October surprise" filing.

The judge in Trump's classified documents case tossed the charges in July, finding Smith was not appointed legally. While Smith has appealed that ruling, the American people have stopped him in his tracks by delivering their own verdict.

Trump won a second term decisively on Tuesday, sweeping the swing states and putting himself on track to a popular vote victory.

While Smith may try to present his capitulation as somehow principled, he is only dropping these cases because his effort to interfere in the election failed.

Lawfare goes bust

Smith's efforts were part of a broader lawfare campaign that saw Democratic state and federal prosecutors indict Trump four times in all.

Trump was convicted on 34 felony counts in New York in a phony "hush money" case. In Georgia, prosecutor Fani Willis charged Trump with election interference and took his mugshot, but the case was thrown into limbo by her widely publicized affair.

Trump - who won the presidency despite being branded a "convicted felon " - is facing a sentencing on November 26 in New York. His former attorney general Bill Barr said Democrats should drop all of their cases against Trump out of respect for democracy.

"The American people have rendered their verdict on President Trump, and decisively chosen him to lead the country for the next four years," he told Fox News.

"They did that with full knowledge of the claims against him by prosecutors around the country and I think Attorney General [Merrick] Garland and the state prosecutors should respect the people’s decision and dismiss the cases against President Trump now."

Trump has pledged to fire Smith "within two seconds" of taking the oath of office.