Posted on 11/08/2024 9:02:18 AM PST by MtnClimber
After spending at least $50 million in tax dollars to bring two unprecedented indictments against Donald Trump, Special Counsel Jack Smith should get his turn under prying eyes.
Jack Smith lurched into a Washington courtroom in September, fully aware all eyes had turned to him.
Surrounded by a team of federal prosecutors and guarded by a government-paid security detail, Smith, a lanky man with a scruffy beard and ill-fitting suit, stood behind the government’s table with arms folded. He slowly turned around with a partial scowl to appraise the audience—mostly reporters and D.C. residents eager to watch the restart of his January 6-related case against Donald Trump—to make sure he was noticed. He did not speak during the proceedings.
That appearance, perhaps unbeknownst to him at the time, looks like Smith’s last time in a federal courtroom as the special counsel prosecuting Trump. Citing Department of Justice rules that prohibit the prosecution of a sitting president, Smith reportedly is working with his bosses at the DOJ to figure out how to drop both the D.C. case and the classified documents in case in Florida; Smith has appealed Judge Aileen Cannon’s order dismissing the indictment based on the special counsel’s unconstitutional appointment.
The move represents another political fatality tied to Trump’s resounding victory on Tuesday. It also represents another humiliating defeat for the man the media portrayed as a steely war-crimes prosecutor plucked off a high profile international trial at the Hague by Attorney General Merrick Garland in November 2022 to finally realize a longtime DOJ dream: put Donald Trump behind bars.
Stone Cold Loser Loses Again
But the hagiography about Smith—reporters swooned over the silent-type injured triathlete, even covering his stop at a DC sandwich shop in 2023 as “breaking news”—never matched his record. The Supreme Court in 2016 unanimously vacated the bribery conviction of former Virginia Governor Robert McDonnell, a case brought by Smith when he led the DOJ’s public corruption office during the Obama administration. Following Smith’s appointment, McDonnell told Mark Levin that Smith would “rather win than get it right.”
Smith, however, usually does neither. In fact, his prosecutorial resume is a long list of courtroom losses, which makes one wonder why Garland chose him for the job. (More here).
Smith failed to win a single conviction in his prosecution of former Senator John Edwards on campaign finance charges in 2012. One DOJ watchdog group slammed Smith for using an “overly aggressive approach” in pursuing Obama’s 2008 Democratic primary rival and for relying on a “novel interpretation of campaign finance laws” to put Edwards behind bars.
It is an approach he repeated in his two unprecedented criminal indictments of Trump. The four counts in his J6-related case rely on vague conspiracy and obstruction statutes; two of the charges involve 18 USC 1512(c)(2), the post-Enron tampering with documents statute. In June, the Supreme Court reversed how the DOJ had applied that law in hundreds of January 6 cases and the court would have reached the same conclusion about Smith’s interpretation of the law if the case ever made it there.....SNIP
An ankle tracking-bracelet would seem to be in order.
Just tell the leftist nutjobs that Smith failed in his attempt to take out Trump, and let them take care of the rest.
Liberal myn have no masculine features.
Revoke his passport, security clearances and state issed drivers license. I would add dis-bar him but that will never happen. I suppose the USSC could take action against him for knowingly pursuing these false charges in spite of his position being ruled unconstitutional.
The Supreme Court in 2016 unanimously vacated the bribery conviction of former Virginia Governor Robert McDonnell, a case brought by Smith when he led the DOJ’s public corruption office during the Obama administration. Following Smith’s appointment, McDonnell told Mark Levin that Smith would “rather win than get it right.”
McDonnell did nothing wrong, that was a case about ruining McDonnell’s political career, period.
Smith looks like and carries himself as a bum.
Revoke his passport, security clearances and state issed drivers license. I would add dis-bar him but that will never happen. I suppose the USSC could take action against him for knowingly pursuing these false charges in spite of his position being ruled unconstitutional.
Yep. It’s all Jack’s fault Liberals. It’s all Jack’s fault.
The DOJ has evolved into America's KGB - enforcing the legal/political dictates from the central uniparty, and making sure our bloated central governments' elites all tow the line.
The DC Federal District Courts have become their kangaroo courts. Packed with cronies, leftists/statists, and Fed.gov employees, these courts will guarantee the outcome the DOJ wants. Its a self-referencing and self-perpetuating bubble if ever there was one.
In some ways, we are the new Soviet Union. I don't know how it gets resolved, outside of a massive debt collapse like they went through
Julie Kelly is a friggin hero.
She has called every dirtbag move throughout this whole saga. She’s been on this guy since before he emerged from the slime.
She and Sheryl Atkisson are the real reporters.
Guess it takes good looking women who have been the target of every scam in life to see them coming.
I agree. Julie Kelly and Sheryl Atkisson are two very strong women who should be role models for young girls.
Cancel his passport.
As I understand the story, Smith was asked by the ICC in the Hague to resign amid rumors that he had taken bribes from some of his investigative targets in order to influence his investigations...
Some of Smith's high profile cases in the U.S. were overturned by federal courts for improper or unethical practices. He tried every double-faced ploy in South Florida to thwart Judge Eileen Canon's authority over his case. Smith will not be recorded in history as a hard nosed 'steely prosecutor' for right and justice.
He will be in deep trouble when he faces Divine Justice.
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We will see. . . . . .
Time for Kal El to kick General Zod’s butt.
The fainting couch is in the lobby.
From the article:
“Smith has appealed Judge Aileen Cannon’s order dismissing the indictment based on the special counsel’s unconstitutional appointment.”
It boggles my mind that A FEDERAL JUDGE ruled that he was not duly appointed, and he is the one appealing it. How can he do that if he is not officially appointed? I mean, the DOJ could appeal it, but he should be completely out of the picture prior to a ruling in his favor.
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