Triumph over legal cases seals Trump's comeback

With special counsel Jack Smith’s move on Wednesday to drop the 2020 election interference prosecution against Donald Trump, one of the last remaining legal threats against the president-elect has turned to ash and blown away in the wind.

Smith is also abandoning an appeal of a federal judge’s dismissal of his case against Trump for mishandling sensitive national security documents after leaving the White House in 2021.

Those were two of the biggest, most imposing judicial proceedings against Trump, which had been hanging over his head for more than a year as he began his slow, steady march back to the White House.