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Is Prison the Best Place for Certain Prominent Democrats?
American Thinker ^ | 22 May, 2026 | J.B. Shurk

Posted on 05/22/2026 4:39:44 AM PDT by MtnClimber

Reports last week confirmed that former special counsel Jack Smith “secretly arranged” to preserve evidence in his criminal cases against President Trump in order to maintain the threat of future prosecution once the president leaves office. This is not a big surprise. Democrats have thrown every civic norm out the window in their ruthless efforts to target Trump’s businesses and send him to prison for life.

eports last week confirmed that former special counsel Jack Smith “secretly arranged” to preserve evidence in his criminal cases against President Trump in order to maintain the threat of future prosecution once the president leaves office. This is not a big surprise. Democrats have thrown every civic norm out the window in their ruthless efforts to target Trump’s businesses and send him to prison for life.

In his quest to imprison an American president, Jack Smith accused Trump of engaging in a conspiracy to “overthrow” the 2020 election, as well as retaining possession of classified documents after leaving the White House. Both allegations are ridiculous, and Smith’s own words make him sound like a lawfare hitman and anti-MAGA zealot. He told members of Congress in January, “Our investigation revealed that Donald Trump is the person who caused Jan. 6, it was foreseeable to him, and that he sought to exploit the violence.” Smith stated emphatically that Trump committed “serious crimes.”

Serious crimes? You mean like using the FBI to spy on all the Republican presidential primary candidates in 2015 and 2016? Oh right, that was President Obama. Or fabricating intelligence in order to justify a counterintelligence operation against candidate Trump? Oh, that was Obama’s corrupt CIA director, John Brennan. Or paying British Intelligence operatives to manufacture a fake “Russia collusion” dossier implicating Trump? Oh, that was Hillary Clinton.

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: lawfare; leftism
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To: MtnClimber

21 posted on 05/22/2026 7:56:12 AM PDT by Bratch
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To: Bratch

“Put all hope out of your mind. And masturbate as little as possible, it drains the strength!”


22 posted on 05/22/2026 8:00:22 AM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: MtnClimber

No, a firing squad is better.


23 posted on 05/22/2026 8:09:18 AM PDT by Ronald77 ( )
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To: MtnClimber

Prison works for me.


24 posted on 05/22/2026 8:50:56 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: MtnClimber

YES.

Next Question?


25 posted on 05/22/2026 9:33:34 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They Did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: MtnClimber

If outer space is not an option then...yeah.


26 posted on 05/22/2026 9:40:44 AM PDT by OrangeHoof (Talarico is Italian for "heretic".)
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To: Clay Moore

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! Someone who agrees with me!

Just as spectacular but not as smelly as Vlad’s treatment of thieves and invaders.


27 posted on 05/22/2026 10:23:27 AM PDT by bobbo666
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Rope.Save the taxpayers $60,000 / yr.


28 posted on 05/22/2026 10:30:33 AM PDT by Cobra64 (ECommon sense isn’t common anymore. )
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To: MtnClimber

No, but the end of a rope would be a nice touch.


29 posted on 05/22/2026 11:59:54 AM PDT by Redleg Duke (“Time to Play Cowboys and Snowflakes!”)
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To: MtnClimber

Six feet under is a better option.


30 posted on 05/22/2026 3:47:05 PM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: studly hungwell

Believe me, an adult mental health facility for the criminally insane is no picnic. For them it would degrade their arrogance, break them down and they’d carry a diagnosis the rest of their lives, a diagnosis that would tell the world, no more that person is crazy.
Jail is a badge of honor comparatively.

But sure, toss them in prison and give them street cred. Make them martyrs. There are no martyrs in mental facilities.


31 posted on 05/23/2026 6:28:55 AM PDT by Karliner (Heb 4:12 Rom 8:28 Rev 3, "...This is the end of the beginning." Churchill)
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To: MtnClimber

I like the idea of work farms like Louisiana’s Angola State Penitentiary.

Put them slackers to work !

Bring back the chain gangs !

Love to see a politician working under the hot sun, with an eagle eye overseer with an itchy trigger finger.


32 posted on 05/23/2026 6:38:47 AM PDT by OldHarbor
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