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Former US president Donald Trump on Monday (November 13) warned that Justice Department officials like Special Counsel Jack Smith and others would end up in a mental asylum in the event he is re-elected as US president in next year's presidential elections.

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Trump took to his Truth Social platform and targeted Smith, US Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco and former Justice Department official Andrew Weissmann calling them a "team of losers and misfits". 

He also attacked what he called "all the rest of the Radical Left Zealots and Thugs who have been working illegally for years to 'take me down.'"

Trump declared that they will end up "suffering from a horrible disease, TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME (TDS!), in a Mental Institution by the time my next term as President is successfully completed. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!"

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Special Counsel Jack Smith is in charge of federal investigations into Trump's mishandling of 'secret' and 'top secret' documents of national importance. This probe, along with the other pertaining to Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 US Presidential Election, has resulted in indictments leading to charges against Trump in each case.

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Hearings in a case about the 2020 elections are slated to begin on March 24 in Washington DC. The classified documents case will likely start in May 2024.

Trump is a frontrunner to win the Republican Party nomination for the 2024 US Presidential Election. He faces a slew of legal troubles but this has not affected his approval ratings and he leads the pack by a big margin.

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The former president has repeatedly lashed out at Special Counsel Smith as well as other Department of Justice prosecutors and federal judges who are involved in various cases against him.

He has already been slapped with a gag order in the election interference case. The order prohibited him from making statements about witnesses, current or potential, and about prosecutors who charged him.