Below is my column in The Hill on the one thing that the forthcoming report of Special Counsel Jack Smith will not address: how he destroyed his own case against Donald Trump. Smith will be something of a tragic figure for future special counsels. The only thing missing is a shirt reading, “I spent over two years and $50 million dollars and all I got was this lousy t-shirt (and a redacted report).”
Here is the column:
The expected release of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s report will occur as early as this weekend, albeit without those sections dealing with the Florida documents case. (Other defendants are still facing prosecution in that case.) However, the most glaring omission will be arguably an explanation of how Smith lost this war without firing a single shot in a trial.
After more than two years, two separate cases and countless appeals (not to mention more than $50 million spent), Smith left without presenting a single witness, let alone charge, at trial. It is an example of how a general can have the largest army and unlimited resources and yet defeat himself with a series of miscalculations.
History probably won’t be kind to Smith, whose record bespeaks a “parade general” — a prosecutor who offered more pretense than progress in the prosecution of an American president.
Indeed, this report will be one of Smith’s last chances to display a case that notably never got close to an actual trial. One-sided and unfiltered, it will have all of the thrill of a Sousa march of a regiment in full dress. We know because we have seen much of this before. At every juncture, Smith has taken his case out on parade in the court of public opinion.
The Smith report will reportedly concern only the Washington case alleging crimes related to Jan. 6 and the 2020 election — a case that was always a bridge too far for Smith.
When first appointed, Smith had a straightforward and relatively easy case to make against Trump over his removal and retention of presidential materials. The case was not without controversy. Some of us questioned the selective nature of the prosecution given past violations by other presidents, particularly as shown by the violations of President Biden going back decades found by another special counsel.
However, the case originally focused on the conspiracy and false statements during the federal investigation into the documents at Mar-a-Lago. Those are well-established crimes that Smith could have brought to trial quickly with a solid shot for conviction.
But Smith’s undoing has always been his appetite. That was evident when he was unanimously reversed by the Supreme Court in his case against former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell (R).
In Florida, Smith was in signature form. He took a simple case and loaded it up with press-grabbing charges regarding the retention of classified material. In so doing, he slowed the case to a crawl. As a defense lawyer who has handled classified documents cases, I said at the outset that I did not believe he could get this case to a jury before the 2024 election, and that after that election, Smith might not have a case to present. Smith had outmaneuvered himself.
Then came the Washington filing, the subject of this forthcoming report. It was another vintage Smith moment. Smith played to the public in a case that pushed both the Constitution and statutory provisions beyond the breaking point. He simply could not resist, and he was only encouraged after the assignment of Judge Tanya Chutkan, a judge viewed by many as predisposed against Trump.
In a sentencing hearing of a Jan. 6 rioter in 2022, Chutkan had said that the rioters “were there in fealty, in loyalty, to one man — not to the Constitution.” She added then, “[i]t’s a blind loyalty to one person who, by the way, remains free to this day.” That “one person” was then brought to her for trial by Smith.
The D.C. case was doomed from the outset by both a prosecutor and judge who, in their zeal to bag Trump, yielded to every temptation. As time ticked away, Smith became almost apoplectic in demanding an expedited path to trial, including cutting short appeals. After refusing to recuse herself, Chutkan seemed to indulge Smith at every turn. But the Supreme Court failed to agree that speed should trump substance in such reviews.
With both cases slipping out of his grasp, Smith then threw a final Hail Mary. He asked Chutkan to let him file what was basically a 165-page summary of this report against Trump before the election. There was no apparent reason for the public release of the filing, except to influence the election — a motivation long barred by Justice Department rules.
Chutkan, of course, allowed it anyway, despite admitting that the request was “procedurally irregular.”
It did not work. Although the press and pundits eagerly repeated the allegations in the filing, the public had long ago reached its own conclusion and rendered its own verdict in November.
In my view, Smith’s D.C. case would never have been upheld, even if he had made it to a favorable jury in front of a motivated judge. As established by the court in Trump v. United States, Smith could not rely on much of his complaint due to violating constitutionally protected areas.
Smith responded to the immunity decision again in typical Smith fashion, largely keeping the same claims with minimal changes. His new indictment was to indictments what shrinkflation is to consumer products — the same package with less content. As in the McDonnell case, Smith was going for conviction at all costs, despite a high likelihood of the case eventually being overturned.
Then the public effectively put an end to both cases by electing Trump.
The Smith investigation should be a case study for future prosecutors in what not to do. An abundance of appetite and arrogance can prove as deadly as a paucity of evidence and authority.
Ironically, Smith will not be the only special counsel offering such a cautionary tale. The report of Special Counsel David Weiss into the Hunter Biden controversy will also be released soon. Weiss was widely denounced for allowing major crimes to lapse against Hunter Biden and offering an embarrassing sweetheart plea deal that collapsed in open court. Notably, Weiss succeeded by minimizing his charges (for the wrong reason). In that way, Weiss has one claim that Smith does not: He made it to court and secured a conviction. Indeed, he was about to prosecute a second case when President Biden pardoned his son.
Weiss’s report will likely only increase questions over his failure to pursue Hunter more aggressively. For Smith, the question is whether he was too aggressive, to the detriment of his own prosecution.
Prosecutions are not the sole measure of success for a special prosecutor. At times, the report itself can be of equal, if not greater, importance to the public.
This is not one of those cases.
The public will be given Smith’s detailed account of a case that was never brought and would likely never have held up. At more than $50 million, it is arguably the biggest flop since “The Adventures of Pluto Nash.“ The difference is that it did not take more than two years to watch Eddie Murphy’s film disaster, and the actor did not then write up a report on how good the movie really was.
Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University. He is the author of “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage.”
I am not at all sure that Jack Smith was a failure, strategically speaking. Consider this example, Daquarius Jones witnesses a gang drive by, at the funeral of a friend. Daquarius cooperates with the police, in describing the thugs, and identifying them. Three attempts are made on Daquarius’s life by the gang. Luckily, all the attempts to kill Daquarius fall short.
Now, was the gang’s strategy of retaliation unsuccessful, on a macro level? I say no, because whether Daquarius ends up testifying or not, or whether the perp(s) are convicted or not, people will be dissuaded from cooperating with the Five O in the future, during subsequent crimes by the gang.
Same with Jack Smith. People will be dissuaded from dissing the Democrats, lest the same kind of crap happen in the future to them. As Trump has often said, “”They’ve launched one witch hunt after another to try and stop our movement, to thwart the will of the American people,” Mr Trump said – later adding: “In the end, they’re not coming after me. They’re coming after you.”
There is a second level of “success”, that I will have to talk about later. Hemingway just got back from the Vet. He has been there since Friday. He is in my lap, purring, now. And it is hard to type.
@Floyd
Again, Floyd, work on your racism first. Then we can discuss the rest.
No. We’re not Floyd’s little nannies or his morality cops. We discuss substance. Leave irrelevant topics out of the discussion.
@oldman
It isn’t irrelevant when it is the main and only thrust of some of his contributions. I do not believe in censorship, so we will call it out, no different than someone who makes a racist joke to you and you say, ‘I don’t think that’s funny.’. It’s a far cry from ‘nannying’. Sorry. 🤷🏽♂️
Then you would be able to demonstrate that racism.
There is not a single reference to race in Floyd’s post.
YOU have assumed racism because Floyd used the name daquarious and cited gangs.
Shame on you for making racist assumptions.
Regardless even if Floyd had explicitly referenced black gangs – neither the subject of the post nor even tangentially would the post be racist.
What is it that you are calling out ?
You are crying racism – yet there is none to be seen.
You might want to take a gander at Floyd’s response to James where he makes it painfully clear that he intended the racial animus that James accurately recognized.
James, again – I ask you –
But why don’t you try to show me where I was wrong? Why don’t you try to tell me, for example, that black culture is just spiffy, and that black kids are being raised, by their single mothers, as well-educated, socially well-adjusted, law-abiding youth? Why don’t you show me how vibrant and full of life their community is? And they are living well, and their cities and neighborhoods are the very model of a first world country? And, show me how clean and safe their neighborhoods are, and how non-racist white people can’t wait to move there, and send their kids to school there? Tell me how little black girls are being raised to be demure and modest young ladies, and little black boys are taught to be respectful of the police. Tell me how much the influx of blacks into major cities has been wonderful for those cities, and how those cities have become enriched? Tell me how black people take a lot of pride in their homes, and keep them well-painted, and maintained. Tell me how black customers have been great for malls? Tell me how WalMart, and CVS, and Walgreens just can’t wait to invest in black neighborhoods with good new stores? Tell me about the strong bonds of love between black men and black women, and how, after they find their Soul Mate, and make a baby, those two Soul Mates continue to go through life as partners, to the benefit of the whole black community?
Why don’t you start there? If you need some help, spend a few minutes on this –
@James, make sure you go after the resident anti-Semites justifying Hamas butchery because of their hatred of Israel before pushing for everyone to agree that Floyd must be a racist.
“@James, make sure you go after the resident anti-Semites justifying Hamas butchery because of their hatred of Israel”
An excellent suggestion.
James, a little dirt never hurt anyone. Floyd’s comment might not have been the height of sophistication, but we don’t all need to be Judith Martin (“Miss Manners”).
Then there is the example of Rudy Giuliani taking down the mob bosses in NYC using RICO. Nationally, the deep-state mob is still in control, but they are frightened by Trump’s win and his cabinet picks. Trump will hopefully do to the national (deep state) mob what Giuliani did to the NYC mob. Sometimes a fearless good guy can really make a difference in cleaning up crime. TR did it with his anti-trust crusades too. The great man model of history does have merit.
Nonsense. This case involved one entity – Donald J Trump. If not for OrangeManBad, there would be no case and no prosecutor. The only person that could or would be dissuaded of anything, is Trump
Russia invading Ukraine – Bad
Russia invading Poland – Very Bad
China invading Taiwan – Very Bad
U.S. invading Greenland – Good
U.S. invading Panama – Very Good
Biden favors war — Bad.
Trump favors peace — Good!
Trump, who favors peace deals over more war, could add seconds to upcoming reset of Doomsday Clock
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/all-things-trump/trump-who-favors-peace-deals-over-more-war-could-add-seconds
Anonymous must be hungry because the Great Mr. Upstate just ate his lunch.
Upstate, us sane people with analytical skills appreciate your comments and your helpful countering the less than bright that inexplicably come to a site they hate.
So war is peace? and black is white.
trump has said he would use force to take Panama and Greenland
You people are absolutely pathetic.
And the last election you Anonymous Democrat Marxist Useful Idiots promised us that Trump told the world he would start WWIII within days of his inauguration.
Got yourself a wee bit of a credibility problem here, sonny. Rachael Maddow’s blog is on one of the lower floors below.
Hello, semi-literate moron. What Trump actually said was that he wouldn’t rule that out. That is a negotiating and a PR tactic. I don’t necessarily approve of that, but I understand why he might employ it.
Number 6,
Ah! You are displaying a degree of critical thinking the anonymorn lacks! Thank you for pointing that out.
You left out:
U.S. invading Cuba – Very Good
Buying it sets the stage for Mar-a-Lago II
and another place for Bezos to park his Boat.
“U.S. invading Cuba – Very Good”
Talk of invasion is horseshit. But if the question is whether foreign countries would have asset value as closer allies, or even new states: Greenland has immense asset value in the form of geographic strategy and untapped natural resources; Canada still has some value from resources and people skills after Marxists like Trudeau did their best to run in into the ground; Cuba has virtually no value – 65 years of relentless Marxist oppression and demagoguery have flushed everything it might have offered. down a filthy toilet. The very same toilet that a$$hat$ like you would like to use to finish off this nation.
Will Jack Smith be deported back to The Hague when Trump returns?
They haven’t seen the evidence that was going to be shown at trial. Everyone would be interested.
If it is not a big deal why is Trump fighting so hard to prevent its release? His pet judge Cannon made an unlawful order to protect Trump.
I agree with you! And while you are at it, why would a political party be against VoterID, if they didn’t have something to hide???
@Floyd
You need to get past your racist issue before anyone will take you seriously again, Floyd. Please do some introspection and then come back. Are you one of those people (and I have encountered them, once or twice, on my honor) that thinks black people bleed a different color of blood? Impossible to take any of your other opinions seriously.
James – there is no reference to race in Floyds post. VoterID is only a racial issue in the minds of left wing nuts.
It is not in the view of 90% of blacks. It has not proven to be racial in effect.
You are the racist – seeing race where it is not an issue
@JohnSay
Sorry, John, but yes, there is/are. Do not be in that group as we go forward unless you would like to admit you have never had a real friend of another color in your life. Feel free to correct me with something that isn’t anecdotal. This is how we ended up with DEI in the first place.
James, in the people that are my friends, family, associates, Straight White males are rare as hens teeth.
I am not going to play the “I have a black friend” nonsense.
But I have had to deal with REAL racism by black ministers at a church that I attended targeting asians – my daughter is chinese, my son is korean.
When you make assumptions – you make an ASS out of U and ME
James – are you a total idiot – what could be more “annecdotal” than the number of real friends of color in ones life.
So you have framed what you think constitutes proof of racism – the absence of minorities among those close to you, and then made meeting your own standard by barring annecdotal evidence – i.e evidence from your own life.
James, you and the others ranting about racism here do not seem to have a clue what racism is.
You keep calling out arguments that you do not like and calling them racism.
How is a post that makes no reference to race, racist ?
How is a post that accurately cites data racist ?
Is it racist to say that the overwhelming majority of professional athletes are black ?
James, I like you, but I don’t care whether you take my claims seriously or not. If you think that what I said was racist, so be it. I can live with that, because I believe that what I said was true.
But why don’t you try to show me where I was wrong? Why don’t you try to tell me, for example, that black culture is just spiffy, and that black kids are being raised, by their single mothers, as well-educated, socially well-adjusted, law-abiding youth? Why don’t you show me how vibrant and full of life their community is? And they are living well, and their cities and neighborhoods are the very model of a first world country? And, show me how clean and safe their neighborhoods are, and how non-racist white people can’t wait to move there, and send their kids to school there? Tell me how little black girls are being raised to be demure and modest young ladies, and little black boys are taught to be respectful of the police. Tell me how much the influx of blacks into major cities has been wonderful for those cities, and how those cities have become enriched? Tell me how black people take a lot of pride in their homes, and keep them well-painted, and maintained. Tell me how black customers have been great for malls? Tell me how WalMart, and CVS, and Walgreens just can’t wait to invest in black neighborhoods with good new stores? Tell me about the strong bonds of love between black men and black women, and how, after they find their Soul Mate, and make a baby, those two Soul Mates continue to go through life as partners, to the benefit of the whole black community?
Why don’t you start there?
Thanks!
@James: You need to get past your racist issue before anyone will take you seriously again, Floyd.
Did you get elected to speak for everyone, or was it Gigi or Anonymous who won that election? Asking for a friend who wasn’t given an opportunity to vote for any of you.
Impossible to take you seriously with your history of anti-Semitic comments. This looks like typical Democrat deflection.
You got that right! Mexico requires voter ID. So does most other countries.
How many illegal votes have been uncovered in the past 20 years?
And I’ll give you credit by not counting all the Republicans that have voted twice and the Republican officials charged (and convicted) of voting violations. And we won’t even go near the lawyers that have been sanctioned or disbarred over their 2020 defense of trumps lies.
And we won’t even go near the lawyers that have been sanctioned or disbarred over their 2020 defense of trumps lies.
I’d like you to go near all the Democrat lawyers from the Washington DC Bar Association who weren’t even disbarred, never mind put on trial after repeatedly perjuring themselves to FISA courts in 2016 and beyond, lying about the other Democrat liars’ illegal “Trump-Russia Dossier”. You must be aware of them – you were one of the liars trying to sell that “dossier” for YEARS.
Here’s a short list of those Democrat lawyers for you to show us your chops on:
Hilary Clinton
Barack Obama
Joe Biden
James Comey
Andrew McCabe
Loretta Lynch
Sally Yates
Robert Mueller
…
It’s a long list; that”s just the start… is that enough for you go near the Democrat lawyers who weren’t even disbarred, much less put on trial for the felonies they committed?
And this is why the Anonymous Democrat clowns in the Clown Car will only post Anonymously.
Old Airborne Dog
Really ? Which of these witch hunts EVER has produced evidence that was not in the news for years before ?
What is much more interesting is the alleged evidence that was in the news that does NOT show up as this idiotic lawfare porogresses.
Put more simply with certainty there is no avtual evidence that has not already leaked.
But there is alot that has leaked that is false.
Why is Trump fighting – He is fighting to end this idiocy.
He is fighting to end a report that likely would be more political than the Mueller report – offering nothing but speculation, but still allowing theMSM to speculate nonsense for years.
I personally do not much care – Trump wins regardless.
As to your idiotic claim regarding Cannon – she found as a matter of law and constitution that Smith was not legitimately appointed.
That decision has not been overturned – the 11ct had months to do so and they did not.
Because she was legally correct, and because had Smith lost – his prosecution in DC would have died too.
Had the 11ct ruled in his favor – which was less than 50:50, it was near certain that SCOTUS would have ruled in favor of Cannon – and probably another 9-0 rulling.
The unconstitutionallity of Smith is trivial.
Officers of the United States must be appointed by the president and confirmed by the Senate.
US attorneys – which have less power than SC’s are appointed by the president and confirmed by the Senate.
Inarguably Smith was an officer of the Untied States.
Therefore he had to be appointed by the president and confirmed by the senate.
This was an Own goal by Garland.
While there is also excellent argument that ALL SC’s are unconstitutional for other reasons,
All others except Smith and Mueller were elevated from positions as US attorney’s
and SCOTUS has long ago affirmed that lateral transfers do not require re-appointment and reconfirmation.
But then when have democrats bothered to read the constitution ?
There are myriads of other problems with the Classified Docs case.
And NO we do not let one person get away with violations of the espionage act merely because we have allowed others in the past.
That said Turley is incorrect – there is no parity between the Biden case and the Trump case.
Biden was a senator and then VP when he violated the espionage act. Senators have no legitimate access to classified material outside a SCIF.
VP’s and even ex-VP’s have access to classified material as specified in the EO on classified materials – the latest version being Obama;s.
VP’s also have limited declassification power. Note the word limited. VP’s and ex-vp’s have to meet all the requirements of the law, they are generally exempt from the “need to know ” requirements. But they are still obligated to handle classified materials properly. They must keep then in a SCIF when not being reviewed,
and they may not share them, or handle them improperly.
The same rules apply to ex-presidents for documents they ask for and are provided by the current president.
But presidents/ex-presidents are different reqaurding documents from their own WH. Those are OWNED by the ex-president.
That is true whether those documents are in the custody of NARA or the custody of the expresident.
For Smith to win the classified documents case against Trump, he must prove,
That the documents were not declassified by virture of Trump directing them transfered to MAL at the end of his presidency.
AFTER proving that, Smith must prove that Trump provided actually classified documents to someone not entitled to access to them.
Turley likes to fixate on the claim that Trump obstructed the return of these documemts.
That is NOT constitutionally possible.
As I noted before these documents – classified or not are the property of the president, so says JW v NARA and a host of prior decisions.
Further the PRA is unconstitutional if that is not true.
Lets be clear – JW Vs NARA – which correctly applies the constitution and the PRA to presidential documents in the posession of ex-president clinton concluded that
whether they were classified or not did not matter,
Neither NARA no the federal government had the power or authority to take posession of Clinton’s presidential documents.
Even the courts did not have the power to order documents into NARA’s custody.
The only thing the government can do about WH documents in the posession of an ex-president is ask the court to require the ex-president to provide access to those documents.
And doing so requires that the government must go to court to do so.
This is the law and the constitution.
There is not and never has been a valid classified documents case in Florida.
The warrant was improvidently granted.
The only crimes committed here were by DOJ and FBI. In attempting to steal what is not theirs.
Biden is currently on his way out the door. He has the power if he so chooses to take any or all WH documents he wishes with him.
It is an open question as to whether merely taking them declassifies them.
What is NOT an open question is that they are his property regardless.
They are his property if he takes them,
They are his property if he leaves them with NARA.
They are his property even if they re classified.
And Biden – like Clinton is free to keep classified documents from his WH in his sock drawer if he wishes.
Because “evidence” is not released from cases that are dropped.
But what has been consistently true of these lawfare cases is that evidence – as well as false evidence is leaked constantly.
Smith has nothing. If he had anything it would have leaked long ago.
Hey genius, send me the url to Pence’s leaked grand jury testimony.
@George: “They haven’t seen the evidence that was going to be shown at trial. Everyone would be interested.”
Surely you’re referenciing the evidence that would have been shown by Special Counsel Hur at Biden’s trial?
And if it isn’t such a big deal in George’s Commie World… why won’t Garland release the video of Biden’s interview with that carefully chosen employee of Joe Biden’s who was named Special Counsel?
Georgie, you’re straining so hard to give yourself credibility that you’re going to end up with a ringpiece surrounded by hemorrhoids.
Old Airborne Dog
LOL, all the MAGA heads exploding and Turley whining and complaining because Trump has been exposed as a sleaze and a criminal. Boo hoo hoo. Leave me an insult to show what a helpless pathetic lil’ Trump fan you are.
No one’s head is exploding. Perhaps your are confusing with this, https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/02/22/92718815-14150497-image-m-110_1733178548746.jpg
Maybe yours is exploding.
People who like sleaze and criminality, their heads aren’t exploding.
“People who like sleaze and criminality, their heads aren’t exploding.”
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Old Airborne Dog
This post and all like it contribute nothing and are simply disparaging.
As such, this post and all like it must be censored for incivility.
This commenter and all like him must be BANNED FOR LIFE.
“Free speech!!! Free speech!!!… unless I don’t like it.”
And don’t you dare say anything disparaging about Musk on X. Free speech will not be tolerated on the absolute free speech site.
ATS you live in a fantasy world.
Those of you on the left not only failed to make your arguments but with a very high probability your lawfare drove people to beleive YOU are the criminals, not Trump.
While Trump is the public face of Lawfare. You are stupid enough to not limit your abuse of power to Trump.
You idiots violated the rights of pro-lifers, cathloics, parents who did not like what their kids were being taught by left wing nuts.
Lawyers who defended those you do not like.
I would note this is not some perception constrained to MAGA. Innumerable liberals have railed at the lawfare that left wing nuts with power have conducted.
John Say,
Well said.
Their not there yet, they are still in the cult to believe everything trump says is true. Even if it contradicts what he said this morning. He still speaks truth.
Cowardly Anonymous Democrat police state fascists… posting their dreams of Republicans being upset because Jack Smith failed at his second attempt to rig an election at the behest of the sitting president. You should be crowing that a record of one win and one loss isn’t bad.
Feel free to claim the mockery and laughter is the audience supposedly being upset Trump will replace the Oval Office house plant formerly known as Vice President Bribery Biden.
The report is nothing more than a teaser to help sell his upcoming new book, or just as likely his new position as a CNN contributor.
HOW JONATHAN TURLEY DESTROYED HIS OWN CREDIBILITY
To begin with Turley, most Americans disagree with your purchased opinion that claims that, somehow, Jack Smith’s prosecution of Trump over his theft of classified documents was invalid:
From Quinnipiac University, 6/21/23: “Six in 10 Americans (60 percent) think former President Trump acted inappropriately in the way he handled classified documents after leaving the White House, while 26 percent think he acted appropriately.
Democrats (95 – 2 percent) and independents (62 – 23 percent) think Trump acted inappropriately in the way he handled classified documents after leaving the White House, while Republicans 58 – 25 percent think he acted appropriately.
Americans 51 – 41 percent think former President Trump should be prosecuted on criminal charges over his handling of classified documents after leaving the White House, similar to Quinnipiac University’s national poll in August 2022”
Secondly, the reason Smith couldn’t get the case to trial was the endless appeals, and the manifestly-unqualified “Judge” Aileen Cannon who kept getting reversed by the 11th Circuit. This is how Trump “wins”–it is indeed ironic that you, Turley, have used the word “lawfare” to imply that somehow Trump is a victim of the legal system when he uses the legal system to get away with endless delays–and that is what doomed any chance of seeing Trump brought to justice that MOST Americans believed to be the right thing. In fact, Trump has used “lawfare” to get away with cheating people and getting his way in the legal system his entire pathetic life–material suppliers, craftsmen, others–he just refuses to pay them, forces them to sue, and then forces them to incur attorney fees and litigation costs, which usually results in settlement for less than what he owed. He has done this hundreds of times and even brags about it.
Another point–there is no comparison whatsoever between Trump’s DELIBERATE theft of classified documents and Biden’s and Pence’s (MAGA media ALWAYS leaves out Pence’s name) INADVERTENT possession of classified materials. Trump deliberately took papers involving nuclear secrets and other highly-sensitive matters, refused polite requests to return them, returned a few, lied about returning all of them, hid them and forced a search warrant.
Another MAGA media talking point that isn’t true–for 78% of Americans who voted the high cost of groceries was the #1 issue–and droves of people believed Trump’s lie (now being backtracked) that he could IMMEDIATELY bring down the cost. Americans did not vote for Trump because they rejected Jack Smith’s prosecution of him for stealing classified documents.
@Gigi
You lower the collective IQ just seeing your screen name at this point. Go blow.
If she goes back to blowing… ummm you be her client. Nobody else is going to volunteer to go anywhere near that mouth.
@Anonymous
I know. Give me credit for my courage today. 😂
James,
You should get a medal!!
Recommend you use 3 thick rubbers.
Smiths goals were accomplished, Lawfare against Trump to negatively impact the election. Everyday people with common sense saw that and responded accordingly. Turley also pushing legal premises without true merit here – not sure why, just wants to remain in public view?
DM,
I am not sure the lawfare by Smith and others did negatively effect the election.
With each additional step the left took – Trump’s poll numbers rose.
EVERY TIME.
It is my opinion – and that of many even on the left, that had the left refrained from Lawfare – they MIGHT have defeated Trump,
It is possible that he would have been defeated int he primary.
The lawfare not only cemented him as the republican nominee it also connected him to people who in one form or another were ALSO targets to left wing nut lawfare.
It made those censored on social media identify and support Trump.
It made prolifers identify with and support Trump.
It made parents protesting the miseducation of their kids identify with and support Trump
So many forget that while Trump is the poster boy target of this lawfare – the left targeted far more than just Trump.
This was a mistake. It backfired.
What in the statement above is not true?
Also, according to Special Counsel Hurr, Biden has a poor memory and would be sympathetic to a jury of his peers.
*assuming such a jury existed.
“*assuming such a jury existed.”
Raid a dementia care facility?
<<"Americans did not vote for Trump because they rejected Jack Smith’s prosecution of him for stealing classified documents."
I'd say they voted for Trump because they rejected the idea that it was just fine that Biden pilfered classified documents as far back as when he was just a Senator who unlike President Trump had no authority, nor any immunity, nor any permissible reason to possess them, and subsequently moved them all over the North East Coast, where they finally landed strewn about his trashed garage where an FBI raid magically never took place. Finally Adjudicated by a Special Prosecutor who essentially said he was too far gone mentally to even stand trial for it while toting around the Nuclear football.
Might be one reason…
HOW JONATHAN TURLEY DESTROYED HIS OWN CREDIBILITY
How Gigi Hoped She Had Credibility – Instead Of Being Known As The Democrat Fire Ho Of Lies
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Old Airborne Dog
Yeah, we did…
Still spreading the grocery lie. More American’s voted for Trump because they know their lives were better under Trump until COVID lockdowns than under Biden. Biden’s failed economic policies gave us Bidenflation which we are still feeling today and will likely feel for years to come. All Biden’s fault. We all know this.
No, our lives were NOT better when the US was setting new daily records for COVID deaths and infections. What MAGA media keeps failing to mention is that Trump put the US in the worst recession since the Great Depression, which is why prices were so low. He constantly lied about the seriousness of COVID, tried to bully scientists to go along with his lies about quack cures, and dominated news conferences instead of allowing the doctors to give us the straight truth. Unemployment was high, schools, businesses, restaurants were closed down, those who could, worked from home and didn’t commute, and it wasn’t safe to take leisure travel. That explains lower costs for gas–demand went down. Some refineries went off-line. When Biden got America open for business again, demand shot up, but supply lagged–true of petroleum and true of consumer goods–high demand with low supply means higher prices. There was a shortage of computer chips, which Biden’s Chips Act will help solve, but reversing all of the damage Trump did will take years to fix, and Trump will lie and try to take credit for it. MAGA media, knowing that most people don’t understand economics, helped spread lies about our economy, especially the lie about Trump “immediately” bringing prices down. Sadly, lots of people believed the lies. And, Trump did NOT receive even 1/2 of the votes that were cast. Trump bears responsibility for causing the inflation from which we suffer because he is stupid, and he will, once again, wreck the successful economy he inherited from a Democrat.
No he did not. The COVID lockdowns did that. And more people died during Biden’s admin.
Gigi.
Why all the lies ?
More people died per month from Covid under Biden with a vaccine than under Trump.
I do blame Biden for lying to us. For making promises regarding Covid that he could not keep.
For stealing our liberty for no benefit at all.
But I do not blame either Trump or Biden for Covid itself, or from the deaths due to covid.
It is self evident from global demographic data that there is no correlation betwee public health policies and covid deaths.
That nations with larger numbers of elderly had more deaths.
That nations with a population that was less healthy had more deaths.
That nations with higher population density had more deaths.
That nations with better healthcare had more deaths – I know this is hard for you to grasp, but it is quite true.
The better a countries healthcare the more elderly people in the country and the greater the number of people who have health problems AND are still alive.
The further from the equator a country was the more deaths.
You can mathematially predict death rates in nearly every country to a very high degree of accuracy with just these democraphic data.
Government policies had no effect.
Not under Trump
Not under Biden.
Even the vaccine does not appear to have had an effect.
“which is why prices were so low.”
Prices were low because from the start of the Trump administration to the end we had almost 9% growth and almost 0% inflation.
It is probable that Growth under Biden was higher – Growth in 2021 alone – more likely attributable to Trump than Biden,
was about 6%. But inflation through Biden’s term was about 23%, When you subtract inflation from growth the result is likely negative.
“He constantly lied about the seriousness of COVID”
False and irrelevant. Covid was serious, but like the weather, there was nothing that either he or Biden could do about it.
” tried to bully scientists to go along with his lies about quack cures”
Bleaching blood – which does not mean injecting clorox is an effective treatment against many diseases,
as is HCQ, and Ivarmectin.
Each of these has proven atleast as effective as anything else except Calciferal – Vitamin D.
Big Pharma, the entire healthcare indiustry NEVER came up with a more effective treatement than those you claim are quack treatments.
Why arent; you calling the other treatments from Public health experts Quack cures ?
They did not work.
You rant about Trump – yet the Vaccine which you think was a miracle was produced in record time BECAUSE OF TRUMP.
Trump is not a public health expect or a doctor, yet the very claims you pi$$ on where atleast as effective as those of the “experts”.
“dominated news conferences”
So ?
“instead of allowing the doctors to give us the straight truth.”
But they didn’t.
Masks did not work
Lockdowns did not work.
Social distancing did not work
Even Trump’s vaccine did not work.
The covid drugs DID NOT WORK.
“Unemployment was high”
Because of the lockdowns that YOUR experts pushed.
” schools, businesses, restaurants were closed down”
Because of the lockdowns that YOUR experts pushed.
“That explains lower costs for gas–demand went down. ”
Correct.
“Some refineries went off-line.”
Which decreased supply bringing prices back up.
” When Biden got America open for business again,”
But he did not – The US reopened for Business in may 2020 when Trump refused to endorse further lockdowns.
Recovery was immediate.
2Q 2020 saw the worst drop in the US economy ever.
3Q 2020 saw the largest jump in the US economy ever.
Both happened LONG before Biden was sworn in.
Biden had absolutely nothing to do with recovery.
But he was atleast smart enough not to lockdown the economy again.
“demand shot up, but supply lagged–true of petroleum and true of consumer goods”
False. There was ZERO impact from Covid on our ability to produce.
The same wells existed, the same factories. Restoring production took weeks not years.
In 2020 – the year of the pandemic US GDP was the same as 2019. There was no drop in production.
There was no drop in supply.
“high demand with low supply means higher prices.”
That is true of a single product. It is not true of the economy as a whole – because MONEY is subject to the laws of supply and demand too.
“There was a shortage of computer chips”
Having nothing to do with Trump or Covid, or the US.
“which Biden’s Chips Act will help solve”
ROFL
The chips act was a giant waste of money.
The chip shortage was a production disruption at TSMC in Taiwan.
The Chips act is tiny, overall it is smaller than TSMC’s investment in a chip foundery in TX.
The Chips act – like all government stimulus is a boondoggle – like Solyandra and the myraids of other Obama stimulus boondoggles.
“but reversing all of the damage Trump did will take years to fix”
What damage ? As I noted REAL growth under Trump was almost 10% – including 2020.
REAL growth under Biden may be nagative, it certainly no where near 10%.
“Trump will lie and try to take credit for it.”
Yes Trump will take credit for and GET credit for undoing the damage that Biden did to the economy.
You rant about covid. Covid was an ecoomic disaster. Trump made the mistake of following the advice f public health officials.
That harmed the economy and Trump grasped this and reversed quickly and the economy had recovered BEFORE biden took office.
The disaster that is Biden’s presidency is entirely the fault of the left.
While inflation is down, it is proving intractible. It is now stuck at just under 3%. While far better than 9%, that is still harmful.
The economy started to show signs of recovery pretty much as soon as Wall Street realized that Republicans were going to control ALL of government.
It continues to recover. But inflation is not improving.
While you are incorrect that people voted for Trump solely because he promised to lower grocery prices,
you are correct that taming inflation is hard, and painful.
That is why we should NEVER cause it.
” MAGA media, knowing that most people don’t understand economics”
YOU are absolutely clueless about economics.
“Trump did NOT receive even 1/2 of the votes that were cast.”
49.8% – yeah pretty much half.
“Trump bears responsibility for causing the inflation from which we suffer”
Possibly about 1/3 of it. Trump’s covid stimulus was inflationary. The correct economic policy was NOT to lock down.
But the worst of inflation is ENTIRELY due to Biden’s spending spree funded by the FED printing money.
“because he is stupid, and he will, once again, wreck the successful economy he inherited from a Democrat.”
ROFL
The US was headed into recession in 2016. Growth did not start to recover until AFTER Trump won the election.
Average growth under Bush was 2%. Under Obama was 1.48%, under Trump was 2.5% – including 2020.
Real growth under Bush and Obama may have been negative. Real growth over Trump’s 4 years was 9%.
Growth under Biden was 29% – from 1/1/2021-12/31/2024. But REAL growth was under 6% – that is after inflation.
or an average of 1.5%/year – worse than Bush. Barely better than Obama, but not nearly as good as Trump.
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“Government policies had no effect.”
Are you excluding government policies such as authorizing and subsidizing gain of function research by a foreign adversary that had been forbidden to take place domestically?
Hey Gigi! Aside from being a nurse and a lawyer and now a petrochemical engineer, tell us again, what is synthetic oil made from?
Quinnipiac University’s polls don’t just lean to the left, they are as far left as you can get and their results are unreliable.
The good professor’s credibility is perfectly intact. He is held in high regard within the legal community and legal academia. His book was on it’s fourth printing by the publisher as it was in high demand. Several news outlets seek his analysis and pay him for columns on legal matters. He makes appearances and testimony at Congress.
Who has lost their credibility? The Democrat party and MSM. That is why so many American’s voted for Trump. That is why so many American’s are switching off MSM and turning to independent media.
Upstate: uh, no he isn’t. It’s because you live in MAGAverse that you believe that Turley has any credibility. The only “news outlets” he regularly contributes to are MAGA media. He is only called to testify by Republicans. I will not stop talking about the tables of groceries used at campaign rallies and the lie that the cost would go down immediately–the lie that even Trump admits got him elected. And, the MAGA media you watch is bought and paid for by billionaires–to spread lies about Trump and Republicans, to downplay Trump’s failures and gaffes, to attack Democrats and to push conspiracy theories and culture war nonsense that hooks gullible people.
The Hill is not MAGA media. Nor is USA Today. He writes for them too. Like, todays column was written for The Hill. Or are you too dense to read that?
Q — What MAGA media do I watch?
A — None. I dont have cable. I dont read Fox news. I do have a paid subscription to The Free Press.
Turley was called repeatedly to testify by Democrats, He testified in the Clinton impeachment hearings for Democrats.
He was frequently a democrat witness through the Bush and Obama presidencies.
Turley’s positions have not changed – those of democrats have changed.
You can talk about whatever you want.
It is unlikely that the price of groceries will drop what WILL occur is wages will rise.
But you can go tell us all that everything under Trump is worse than under Biden for the next 4 years.
But you don’t matter anymore.
People grasp reality.
Almost no one is going to be listening to you for the next 4 years – or longer.
Frankly absent change no one will be listening to the left or to democrats, or to the MSM.
Probably no one will be listening to Trump.
But they WILL be watching.
WE really do NOT want to listen to the MSM or politicians.
What we want from them is the promise of Adam Smith
“Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism, but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice; all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things. All governments which thwart this natural course, which force things into another channel, or which endeavour to arrest the progress of society at a particular point, are unnatural, and to support themselves are obliged to be oppressive and tyrannical.”
Gigi, I have no idea whether your alleged polls are valid or even if they are real.
You are not a trustworthy reporter.
But I do know that they do NOT support your claim.
Smith is prosecuting crimes. The US government can not prosecute inappropriate behavior.
If you can barely get a majority of inappropriate – how is it you expect to get a 2/3 majority needed to indict ?
Regardless, pretty much every single claim you make is false.
“You don’t matter anymore”
These mendacious fools (looking at you, Pelosi) have *all* destroyed any shred of credibility they may have at one time had, and it is all too apparent that even then it was a facade; this is but one extraordinarily egregious example. January 20th can’t come soon enough, and I am never supporting these people ever again as an unaffiliated voter, never voting dem again. This has been madness, and we are going to put a stop to it and seal it up so that we never have to live through the modern left’s tyranny ever again, at least in the US. Count on it.
Classical liberals’, if you still exist: time to start founding a new party. It is literally change or die time (and that is a metaphor for the intellectually deficient and morally vacant trolls).
Apostrophe due to hasty typing at work. Yes, there are people who are not here illegally that work hard and have earned every inch of what they have in life.
A Brief Criminal History Of The Democrat Felons From The Washington DC Bar Association’s Lavarentiy Beria Division
Obama/Biden’s former FBI Director, Robert Mueller, was given $30+ million dollars to take out Trump using the Clinton/Obama/Biden/DNC’s illegal “Trump-Russia Dossier”. Which he enthusiastically attempted, despite knowing before he ever accepted the contract to take out President Trump that the ‘dossier’ was actually an illegal campaign weapon written by an illegally hired and paid Russian spy who he had investigated while FBI Director.
Obama/Biden’s former DoJ prosecutor, Jack Smith, was given $50+ million dollars by Biden/Harris to take out Trump in a carbon copy of how he successfully worked with then FBI Director Robert Mueller for Obama/Biden to take out the previous challenger to a Democrat president/vice president’s re-election.
When Special Counsel Mueller was forced to testify, he claimed it never occurred to him (or any of the 30+ of the FBI’s best investigators working for him) to figure out where that “Trump-Russia Dossier” came from. Or if it was even US intelligence agency product as President Obama claimed. Mueller was not indicted for his perjury and uttering false documents to FISA courts during his “investigation”, nor his perjury to Congress then or previously as FBI Director during Obama’s first term in office.
The Washington DC Bar Association did not even disbar him for that perjury or the associated felonies.
He, like his partner, BFF and fellow unindicted felon, James Comey, are venerated as Democrat heroes from the prestigious Washington DC Bar Association that Professor Turley is also a brother member of. Neither have been disbarred by the Washington DC Bar Association for their felonies.
Jack Smith, who previously worked with then FBI Director Mueller to take out that previous Republican challenger, and whose conviction was thrown out by SCOTUS due to malfeasance, was also not disbarred. He is once again a Democrat hero of the revolution, just as he was back when he took out the most dangerous Obama/Biden re-election challenger.
Jack Smith is also a Democrat hero, also from the prestigious Washington DC Bar Association as Mueller and Comey who he worked with.
Obama/Biden’s former FBI Director, James Comey, later bragged he illegally leaked classified information to engineer the appointment of his best friend and partner in the DoJ, former FBI Director Robert Mueller, to that position. Publicly! Despite that, he was never prosecuted nor even disbarred for serial felonies involving perjury and uttering false documents to FISA courts. The Teflon Democrat Lawyer!
Fun fact: James ‘Teflon Man’ Comey was on Obama’s short list to be appointed to SCOTUS to replace Justice Souter, despite his history at the FBI and as Deputy Attorney General.
Another fun fact: now Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco, who previously worked with Jack Smith for Obama in Smith’s previous prosecution to eliminate a feared Republican opponent (and probably responsible for choosing Jack Smith to come back to take out Trump in the same manner), was Obama’s alternate choice to become FBI Director, losing out to Comey.
A perfect self licking ice cream cone of Democrat lawyer felons from the Washington DC Bar Association and Democrat Departments of Justice, engaged in prosecutorial malfeasance and felonies to wage Democrat police state fascism against Republican opponents.
But… nothing to see here worth commenting on to the American public. History only began in 2020, move along now.
Old Airborne Dog
Dear Prof Turley,
The truth might have set Trump free, but it was classified far above his level. Even Judge Cannon had to hire a ‘Master’ to look at this stuff.
The entire labyrinth of the classification system, including various presidential EOs, seems so obscure and unaccountable little wonder it’s often used to hide government malfeasance. What possible reason(s), sources or methods, can there be to continue to classify information concerning the JFK assassination or the 9/11 report?
As cuz Ed Snowden recently suggested ‘if you exposed (classified) criminal conduct and are treated as the criminal, you can sure it’s being run by the criminals’ (paraphrase).
I’m applying to Elon Musk’s dept of DOGE to sort this out .. . think of the savings!
*savings that Trump could use to fund a dept. of Humility.
dgsnowden posted As cuz Ed Snowden recently suggested ‘if you exposed (classified) criminal conduct and are treated as the criminal, you can sure it’s being run by the criminals’ (paraphrase).
A self-serving defense like that now being attempted on behalf of Jack Smith.
Anyone who believes Snowden (or Julian Assange) actually read each individual document of those millions of classified documents prior to leaking them to the Russians, ChiComs, Cubans, North Koreans to ensure they weren’t revealing the identity of people in that country providing America with intelligence to help us protect ourselves is one more victim of childish confirmation bias.
How many YEARS does it take to read through each of millions of documents?
No way that a malign adversarial government like Communist China can use computer analysis of those documents by that country’s server farms and best intelligence analysts to put documents together to identify traitors to their government?
No different than those who still believe the “Trump-Russia Dossier” is verified intelligence agency product.
A metaphor: you can thank a pedophile running the local kiddy trafficking ring for giving you the identity of the person who committed the armed robbery of a liquor store, without giving them a pass for being a pedophile running a child prostitution and pornography ring.
You can celebrate what they revealed. You should also consider how many people risking their lives to help America, and their families, were subsequently murdered by those countries as a result of the actions of Snowden and Assange. And how much damage they did to American intelligence collection activities.
Spare me the mainstream media claims both of them actually did read each and every one of those documents before releasing them to ensure they did no harm.
Both of them should have met justice at the end of a long drop attached to a short rope. And the he/her Bradley Manning, dangling right beside them. Pour encouregez les autres…
Old Airborne Dog
Aristotle’s Rhetorical Situation may partly answer Smith’s total failure. He faults in ‘Logos’ (logic-organization, text), ‘Ethos’ (He had, prior to the Trump issue lost credibility), and ‘Pathos’ (his uncontrolled partisanship severely limited his audience). Smith failed in his pursuit because of his radical lust for President Trump head on a spike, and sidestepping legal structures.
I’m in a quandary to opine if the out-of-control justice system should be subjected to similar efforts by the opposing party, or to let the out-of-control continue???
What has been interesting to watch over these last years is how lawyers can twist facts to manipulate outcome. While this is not new, seeing it so visibly, disheartens. The Left has shown its ugly teeth and we are all tired of the lies, the manipulation and the basic hate of this country. Trump is only the lighting rod to their hate. We don’t have to like Trump personally to know when we see ‘railroading’. Smith and those in NY and Georgia had, not the law, the Constitution, or the country’s interest, but their own political and name-grabbing interests at heart. Sadly, they their ill-conceived passions were fueled by this hate and every American show know the financial costs we bear at their actions. Would be interesting to sue all these people – Bragg, Smith, Willis, etc for the costs they have put upon their States and the people within.
A Rabies Infection was the only requirement the Biden Administration had to nominate a Special Counsel for the unhinged pursuit of DJT! Devil may care how the law is applied as long as the FEDS controlled the venue (namely the Peoples Democratic Republic of DC or the Great Communist Enclave of New York) and, de facto, ensured wild eyed Leftist Judges guided the journey to conviction (oops I mean a “fair trial”) and incarceration. A shame that the pesky SCOTUS got involved and derailed the timeline BUT thank goodness NYC and State were not bound by actual laws and pressed forward with their lynching (oops I mean “fair trial”). Too bad for Jack A$$ Smith but he will get a book deal, a Deep Blue law firm job, and hopefully a rabies treatment so all is well!
OT, to a point, but relevant to Democrat Incompetence and Mismanagement – I heard on Adam Corolla that Newsome spent $24 Billion on the Homeless, and the problem grew worse. Meanwhile, the budget for the LAFD was less than $1 Billion. And as to the fire itself, J H Kunstler has some good insight on the after-effects of the fires. An excerpt:
“Which gets you to the realization that we have barely begun to see the knock-on effects of this catastrophe. Those tens of thousands of the burnt-out will not be reporting to work anytime soon. They will have all they can do to find a roof over their heads while they hassle with FEMA officials, State of California bureaucrats, insurance company claims agents, and other “helpers.” The rebuilding quandaries have already been rehearsed in the news. Even if politicians suspended all the building and zoning codes, and the tax issues, where will so many contractors come from in any reasonable time-frame? And where do you put all that melted plastic goop and toxic ash that remains on-the-ground where peoples’ lives used to be?
If you lost a house valued at $5-million, it will cost you at least $10-million to replace it. Good luck, even if you were a mid-level movie star. Of course, if your insurance got cancelled lately — or you just didn’t have any because it cost too much — then there is zero chance you will get to even fantasize about living in the hills above Malibu ever again. And that job you’re not able to go to right now due to the pressing needs of sheer survival on Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. . . you might never go to that job again. The business you worked for might not be there anymore, either.
If there was ever a proverbial last-grain-of-sand-in-a-landslide, the Great 2025 Los Angeles Fire must be a sure thing vis-a-vis the US economy, especially the financial side of it. An awful lot of homeowners will not be paying their mortgages on a smoldering empty lot. The banks are not in super-fabulous condition these days. How many loans-gone-bad will it take to wreck already unstable banks? And, by the way, the collateral isn’t even there anymore. The re-po man is out of the picture.
What happens to the insurance companies? And the re-insurance companies who theoretically stand behind the insurers? I’ll tell you what happens: they will be backstopped by the government, which doesn’t have the money to backstop them. . . but will create it out of pixels on screens. . . which means expect a considerable uptick in inflation (i.e., a downtick in the purchasing power of the dollar), which will be a black eye for the new Trump administration. How does all this thunder through the US economy as a whole?
Nobody really know just yet, but the signs are not reassuring. You can infer countless chains-of-consequence. Friday’s action in the financial markets felt like a tremor of things to come. The Bubble-of All-Bubbles abides. . . for how long?”
https://www.kunstler.com/p/climate-jeezus-taketh-away
Correct. “Homeowners” with burned-down homes will do the math. They have super high property tax liabilities plus super high mortgage payments, connected to their “ownership” of a smoldering pit that the State of CA will likely designate as a toxic waste dump that must be remediated. The “homeowners” will not be able to pay. They will still need shelter.
How do you make those facts add up, to avoid a bankruptcy filing. Many displaced persons will be turning their house keys in to their lender and driving off. The lenders will have the liabilities of the unpaid mortgage plus the eternal liability of the massive property tax on their books.
“Special Counsel Jack Smith will not address: how he destroyed his own case against Donald Trump. Smith will be something of a tragic figure for future special counsels. The only thing missing is a shirt reading, “I spent over two years and $50 million dollars and all I got was this lousy t-shirt (and a redacted report).”
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“I’m 0-4-1; I’m 0-4-1!!!”* ~Jack Smith, Esq,
“Among his more notable corruption cases, Smith prosecuted the former governor of Virginia, Robert McDonnell, a Republican. Although Smith scored a conviction against McDonnell, the case was later overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court in a unanimous 8-0 decision. The Court observed that “there is no doubt that this case is distasteful; it may be worse than that. But our concern is not with tawdry tales of Ferraris, Rolexes, and ball gowns. It is instead with the broader legal implications of the Government’s boundless interpretation of the federal bribery statute.” (Politico, 6/27/16). The High Court also rebuked Smith and warned that “the uncontrolled power of criminal prosecutors is a threat to our separation of powers.”
Smith prosecuted and convicted former Democrat vice presidential nominee John Edwards. “By not losing on any of the six felony counts for which he was being tried, John Edwards won the biggest victory of his political and legal life . . . A mistrial on five counts and an acquittal on one resulted in a clear — if not complete — legal vindication and a likely fatal setback for federal prosecutors seeking to convict the former U.S. senator and 2004 Democratic vice presidential nominee for allegedly violating the Federal Election Campaign Act.” (U.S. News, June 1, 2012).
Smith prosecuted Democrat Bob Menendez on public corruption charges. The case ended in a mistrial. “The way this case started was wrong, the way it was investigated was wrong, the way it was prosecuted was wrong, and the way it was tried was wrong as well,” Menendez said outside the courtroom at the time.” (Washington Examiner, 6/5/23).
Smith prosecuted Arizona congressman Rick Renzi on corruption charges, which the Supreme Court upheld. Renzi was later pardoned by former President Trump. Renzi declared that he had been “wrongly convicted by a Department of Justice that engaged in witness tampering, illegal wiretapping, and gross prosecutorial misconduct.” (Washington Examiner, 6/5/23).”
Oops, sorry. That was me.
Nice that you as a layman have knowledge of Jack Smith’s history that Professor Turley apparently doesn’t – despite the fact both are brother members of the Washington DC Bar Association.
“Nothing to see here, move on” ensures that the Jack Smith’s among Democrat lawyers can indeed continue to move on. As can those who intend to do the very same things.
Old Airborne Dog
Mr. Turley, how can Jack Smith, Alvin Bragg, Letitia James and the judges in the New York get away with their acts? Isn’t there some code of ethics? Can they be brought to justice?? Will they be? THANKS FOR ALL YOU DO.
Because they’re Democrat lawyers. Just like Robert Mueller, James Comey, Andrew McCabe, Loretta Lynch, Sally Yates, et al got away with the fellonies they committed while hunting President Trump for Obama/Biden. Not even disbarred.
And all are members of the Washington DC Bar Association… like their fellow member, Professional Turley. Like today’s subject, Jack Smith, their bar association brother hunting Trump for Biden/Harris just as he hunted the previous Democrat president’s re-election threat.
You are posing a very hard question to our host, who apparently knows nothing of the felonies committed by his fellow members and given a pass by their bar association.
The members of the Washington DC Bar Association have shown no evidence of actually having ethics – they can’t even call out criminality like the obvious felonies of perjury and uttering false documents.
Old Airborne Dog
Given enough time they always tell you who they are. One particularly vehement commenter on this blog known as Anonymous once upon a time wrote that she works at Langley Air Force Base. She thinks that we will forget that it is she who dwells among the swamp creatures. Her comments should be filtered with the recognition of her protection of her way of life and her innermost fear of losing all she has if her dishonestly is revealed. She lives a life of fear created by her fantasies. She has voiced her support of the Caligula like frescoes depicting pornography on the White House lawn. Sadly there are people such as she who push the papers in government offices throughout Washington D.C. lost in their delusions of superiority. Caligula too was convinced of his superiority because like Anonymous he believed that because of his position in life that he must be a god. All must be forced to bow down lest they too adorn the Appian Way hanging on a cross. This is a mindset.
I used to live near Langley AFB, back in the 1960s. Hampton Roads used to be a nice town, and one of the best things in my life occurred there. I discovered used books stores! I trekked thru the woods, past a quarry, and over the highway, to a strip mall. And there the used book store was! I still have some of the paperbacks that I bought there, in storage.
(Sadly there are people such as she who push the papers in government offices throughout Washington D.C. ); and these are the cancer eating away the very life of this nation and they should be the first targets of disinfecting the swamp.
“. . . a 165-page summary of this report against Trump before the election.”
Why on Earth would anyone believe a single word in that report (including the conjunctions)?
Smith has made a career as a corrupt attorney/prosecutor — using the law as a political cudgel against opponents. Remember Lois Lerner? Smith was behind that infamous IRS targeting of conservative groups.
At least someone is willing to tell the truth, voters in Ohio. Sure would be nice if there was the same level of honesty on this site. Alas, all we have here are cult members.
“American voters have a unique ability to smell b——t, and they smell b——t with the Democrats…. Most Americans think the system is rigged. And Trump shuffled the deck on us. Not only does Trump say this thing is rigged, but he says: ‘I know, because I rigged it. I was part of the rigging.'”
“I never liked Trump even when he was only a builder in New York.… because he stiffed union workers and he generally seemed like a douchebag. One thing I wasn’t then and I’m not now is a racist, misogynistic, uninformed dips–t who enjoys supporting a rapist, felon, traitor.… These people have no clue yet what they’ve done, but they will find out.”
another column- good punctuation and grammar- written by a trump sychophant, completely eliding trump’s part in j6 and the docs case- turley, dershowitz, greg jarrett, mccarthy and levin will all be labled as trump apologists and sychophants- i’d rather be known as a child molester
-wake up on the wrong side of the floor this a.m., did you?
You said, ” i’d rather be known as a child molester”
Finally! Something you said, that I believe!
Floyd,
Good one!
🙂
Trump, who favors peace deals over more war, could add seconds to upcoming reset of Doomsday Clock
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/all-things-trump/trump-who-favors-peace-deals-over-more-war-could-add-seconds
But you ARE a child molester already… which is why you only post here Anonymously.
Old Airborne Dog