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Special Counsel Jack Smith is in a precarious position now that President-elect Donald Trump has defeated Vice President Kamala Harris.

The special counsel made a request to the court on Friday to get rid of all deadlines in his case against the president-elect that signals the winding down of his case, CNN reported.

“As a result of the election held on November 5, 2024, the defendant is expected to be certified as President-elect on January 6, 2025, and inaugurated on January 20, 2025. The Government respectfully requests that the Court vacate the remaining deadlines in the pretrial schedule to afford the Government time to assess this unprecedented circumstance and determine the appropriate course going forward consistent with Department of Justice policy,” prosecutors said to federal District Judge Tanya Chutkan.

“By December 2, 2024, the Government will file a status report or otherwise inform the Court of the result of its deliberations,” they said.

But now Smith is the one on the hot seat as House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan and Republican Rep. Barry Loudermilk, who is in charge of the investigation into the annuary 6 Committee, have sent him a letter instructing him to save his records.

And Republican Rep. Wesley Hunt spoke to conservative podcaster Benny Johnson and said that Smith could be the one headed to prison.

“Jack Smith is going to be the first person on this list. If he doesn’t show up to Congress then he will be in jail. They put Steve Bannon in jail. Those are the rules,” he said.

In a biography that was scheduled for release a week before the election, Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell expressed support for special counsel Jack Smith and stated that he hopes former President Trump will “pay a price” for his actions related to January 6th.

Axios reported that while “McConnell has long been a Trump critic…a new book throws his weight behind some of the most serious federal charges against Trump.”

“If he hasn’t committed indictable offenses, I don’t know what one is,” the longest-serving Republican leader told journalist Michael Tackett in an interview for “The Price of Power,” just a few weeks after Smith became the first prosecutor to file charges against an ex-president in August 2023.

“From the start, McConnell thought the charges brought by federal prosecutors against Trump had merit,” Tackett wrote. McConnell told him, “There’s no doubt who inspired it, and I just hope that he’ll have to pay a price for it,” in reference to the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol Building.

An unarmed Trump supporter, Air Force veteran Ashli Babbitt, 36, was shot and killed by a U.S. Capitol Police lieutenant with a sketchy past, was killed during the riot. In January of this year, her family filed a $30 million wrongful death lawsuit against the U.S. government.

“Tackett’s book reveals just how seriously McConnell considered voting to convict Trump of related impeachment charges in 2021,” Axios reported. “Conviction could have led to the Senate blocking Trump from running for office again.”

The GOP leader seriously considered voting to convict, according to an interview he gave for the book a week after the riot.

“I’m not at all conflicted about whether what the president did is an impeachable offense. I think it is,” McConnell said in the oral history interview.

McConnell claimed that Trump urged people to assault the U.S. Capitol, adding that “is about as close to an impeachable offense as you can imagine.” But in reality, Trump never urged supporters to storm the building; he explicitly asked supporters during a “Stop the Steal” speech on the Ellipse to “march peacefully” to the Capitol and be heard.

Ultimately, McConnell, a Kentucky Republican, voted for acquittal because Trump had since left office.

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