Jack Smith is finally ending his fraudulent lawfare campaign against Donald Trump - a stunning triumph for the president-elect who accused Smith repeatedly of trying to kneecap his 2024 campaign.

Smith officially moved Monday to drop his twin prosecutions of Trump, whose historic re-election victory ruined Smith's unprecedented attempt to jail a U.S. president and political rival.

Until now, Smith could at least pretend that he was pursuing justice against a president who placed himself "above the law." With his post-election surrender, Smith is making it clear that his cases were meritless, corrupt, and ultimately bound to a specific political goal: denying Trump a second term.

Jack Smith surrenders

Over the past year and a half, Smith furiously pushed to convict Trump before voters had a chance to weigh in. Along the way, Trump lambasted Smith as an unscrupulous partisan who was bending the law for political purposes.

But Smith ran into obstacles, some self-imposed. His sweepingly broad "election interference" case raised unprecedented questions about the scope of presidential power, giving Trump an opportunity for a lengthy appeal that doomed the case.

A separate case on classified documents was tossed by judge Aileen Cannon, who found Smith, a private citizen, was not appointed properly to his powerful position.

The federal judge in Trump's "election interference" case, Tanya Chutkan, agreed to Smith's request Monday to dismiss the charges. Trump was originally facing trial in March in Washington D.C, where he almost certainly would have been convicted by a left-leaning jury.

Separately, Smith moved to drop his appeal in Trump's classified documents case, which saw the FBI raid his Florida home in a shocking display of force against a political rival.

Trump rips "low point"

While Smith is giving up, he is still trying to save face. In his dismissal motion in the D.C. case, Smith insisted he was blocked by a long-standing DOJ policy against prosecuting sitting U.S. presidents, and not because the case lacked merit.

"After careful consideration, the Department has determined that OLC’s prior opinions concerning the Constitution’s prohibition on federal indictment and prosecution of a sitting President apply to this situation and that as a result this prosecution must be dismissed before the defendant is inaugurated," his team wrote.

Smith also asked to dismiss the charges "without prejudice," meaning they theoretically could be brought again when Trump's second term expires. But the statute of limitations will have run out by then, and in any case, the optics of such a scenario would be absurd.

While Smith tries to duck behind "long-standing DOJ policy," he is effectively admitting that his prosecutions were tied to a political outcome that Smith attempted to control. Smith knew all along that his cases could only continue if Trump lost the election, but the voters had other plans.

By giving Trump a second term, the American people delivered their own verdict and may well have stopped America from becoming a banana republic.

In a post celebrating the demise of the lawfare campaign, Trump called the efforts of Smith and other left-wing prosecutors a "political hijacking" and a low point in American history.

"It was a political hijacking, and a low point in the History of our Country that such a thing could have happened, and yet, I persevered, against all odds, and WON. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!" Trump wrote.