Posted on 02/28/2025 5:39:57 AM PST by MtnClimber
An order signed by President Trump on Tuesday signals a new front in fighting lawfare operatives in the private sector.
As an aide started to explain the latest order about to be signed during a press conference in the White House on Tuesday afternoon, President Trump interrupted his spiel.
“Hold it, this is a good one,” the president, holding up his hand, said to several reporters assembled in the Oval Office. “Is everybody listening? We’re going to call it the ‘Deranged Jack Smith’...bill.”
The order, in the form of a memo to several agency heads, suspended the security clearance of employees at Covington & Burling, a Democratic-connected white-shoe law firm headquartered in Washington. According to a January 27 Wall Street Journal article--and followed up by Politico--the firm provided at least $140,000 in pro bono services to disgraced former special counsel Jack Smith.
Although both cases ended after Trump’s election, Smith’s problems were just beginning. Trump had promised on the campaign trail that his administration would investigate evidence of abuse and misconduct by the special counsel and his team. He fulfilled that promise by signing an executive order on January 20 to end the “weaponization” of the federal government, particularly the DOJ and intelligence community: “The prior administration and allies throughout the country engaged in an unprecedented, third-world weaponization of prosecutorial power to upend the democratic process. These actions appear oriented more toward inflicting political pain than toward pursuing actual justice or legitimate governmental objectives.”
In a follow-up move, Attorney General Pam Bondi formed a “Weaponization Working Group” on Feb. 5 and specifically cited Smith, “who spent more than $50 million targeting President Trump.”
Smith officially left the Biden DOJ on January 10 but not before succeeding in releasing one volume of his two-volume report into the investigations of the president. And in the “quit digging a hole” category, Smith recently signed an open letter to current prosecutors expressing “alarm…by recent actions of the Department’s leadership.”
With Free Friends Like This…
Trump, along with his DOJ, likely will have the last laugh. And it’s doubtful Smith’s free lawyers at Covington & Burling, with offices around the world, are amused. While it’s unclear how many security clearances have been suspended, it appears two lawyers—Peter Koski and Clinton pal Lanny Breuer—were directly involved in providing free counsel to Smith. Koski worked at the DOJ’s public integrity unit during the same time Smith headed the unit during the Obama administration. Other notable Democrats at the firm include former Attorney General Eric Holder, Biden’s longtime foreign affairs advisor and Ukraine war architect Victoria Nuland, and Biden’s former White House counsel Dana Remus.
The presidential directive may have an immediate impact on Smith’s ability to build a defense, particularly for Koski. “Revoking [Koski’s] clearance could limit his access to sensitive government records, given that both of Mr. Smith’s criminal investigations against Mr. Trump involved classified documents. Doing so could sharply limit what representation Mr. Koski might be able to offer,” the New York Times reported on Feb 25....SNIP
Smith certainly got the worse in his persecution of Trump.
I liked Trump handing out the pen with the request to sent it to Jack!
I caught that last, too, love this guy!
Everyone of these deep state ghouls operated under the firm and secure conviction that Trump would never be president again. They burned all their bridges.
- Peter Strozk, FBI
But they built their own gallows.
Jack be nimble Jack be quick. Jack’s trying to protect his own ####.
A remarkable level of hubris among them. And of course, the almost super-human tenacity and determination of Trump.
The same law firm that Charles Ruff worked for when he defended Clinton in his impeachment trial.
Assuming he has a ####.
LOL
:0)
Jack can always sell hats that say, FAFO. He’ll make a lot of doe.
Jack Smith has friends? How hard up must someone be to enjoy hanging out with him?
Jack Smith fully deserves any/all hell that rains down on him.
Smith was just a tool of Garland, illegally appointed. The focus should be on Garland.
Advice tp President Trump, don’t go to any theatres.
Correct. He never received any authority to form this office or fund it. But the bozos in congress let it happen anyway because OrangeManBad. Screw ‘em all.
He needs to put the letter “I” in front FAFO…… I F’ed A and F’ed O……
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