Ex-DOJ Official Who Probed Trump Is Latest to Draw His Fire

As the Justice Department presses charges against some of Donald Trump’s perceived political enemies amid his retribution push, the former prosecutor who built two criminal cases against the president is back on his radar.

Jack Smith, the one-time US special counsel, recently reemerged in public to denounce the Trump administration’s firing of career prosecutors and its handling of politically explosive cases. The president, meanwhile, has encouraged prosecutors to look into Smith’s conduct and an ally summoned him to testify in a congressional probe.

“Deranged Jack Smith, in my opinion, is a criminal,” Trump said on Wednesday, flanked by FBI ...