LOS ANGELES.–Speaking to conservative radio talk show host Hugh Hewitt, no fan of Trump, 78-yer-old President Donald Trump said he would fire Special Counsel Jack Smith in a heartbeat if he becomes president. Actually, Trump would appoint a new Atty. Gen. who would fire Smith and end the court cases. Democrats worked feverishly to rush to prosecutions of Trump the year before the 2024 presidential race go in full swing. But delay-after-delay stymied the Democrat effort to tie Trump up in fake charges to prevent him from running in 2024. When Trump was impeached by 84-year-old former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) for “incitement of insurrection,” she hoped legal experts could use the 14th Amendment, Section 3, to prevent Trump from every going on the 2024 ballot. All that blew up on Democrats when the Supreme Court ruled March 4 against the 14th Amendment.
When Trump was acquitted in Feb. 21, 2012 of Pelosi’s impeachment, she was still determined to keep Trump from running in 2024. So Pelosi formed the Jan. 6 House Select Committee to investigate Trump’s role in the Jan. 6 Capitol riots. Democrats blamed Trump for sitting idly by Jan. 6 watching the Capitol riots on TV, doing nothing to stop the riots. Democrats wanted Trump to call up Proud Boys leader Henry “Enrique” Tarrio, now serving a 22-year sentence for “seditious conspiracy,” etc. Can you imagine Trump calling Tarrio on the phone to call off the dogs? That would have really showed that Trump planned and organized the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riots. But Trump waited for a few hours to tell everyone involved in the Capitol vandalism to go home peacefully. Pelosi said Trump incited the riot for a speech he gave Jan. 6 at the D.C. Ellipse.
Spending millions of dollars and nearly two years, the Jan. 6 House Select Committee concluded that Trump planned and orchestrated the insurrection, prompting Atty. Gen. Merrick Garland to pick Jack Smith Nov. 18, 2022 as Special Counsel. Smith spent six months working with grand juries in D.C. and Florida to indict Trump on multiple felonies, all making good Democrat publicity but having no real probable cause linking Trump to the Jan. 6 Capitol riots or to willfully retaining classified U.S. documents at his Mar-a-Lago resort. Smith was delivered setbacks by the U.S. Supreme Court when they refused expedite Trump’s Jan. 6 case, letting the Appeals Court run its course. When it came to the Mar-a-Lago case, Judge Aileen Cannon dismissed the case July 15 on the grounds that Smith’s appointment was not authorized by Congress. Democrat legal scholars obviously disagree.
When it comes to Smith’s D.C. case against Trump, alleging that Trump knew all along that he lost the 2020 election fair-and-square, it assumes facts not in evidence, including Trump’s state-of-mind since the 2020 election. Smith would have hard time proving to a jury that Trump fabricated his objections to losing the 2020 election, rather than actually believing that election fraud took place. Trump told Hewitt that he would fire Smith, rather than pardoning himself. Either way, it spoils Democrats efforts to stop him from running in 2024, the primary objective of the Jan. 6 House Committee. House Democrats like Pelosi and Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), now running for Senate, insist that Trump was guilty of planning and orchestrating the Jan. 6 insurrection. Neither Pelosi nor Schiff have any facts to support their allegations, only wild conjecture against Trump.
Trump isn’t new to government malicious prosecution when he campaigned in 2016. Former FBI Director James Comey, using Hillary’s former campaign opposition research AKA “The Steele Dossier,” said Trump colluded or conspired with the Kremlin to win the 2016 presidential election. For all his years in office, Trump was put through the wringer by the Justice Department and FBI, all malicious prosecution without any real probable cause, all to harass Trump politically. So, when it comes to Smith’s recent charges, Trump knows all about witch hunts involving government prosecutors. Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) both held hearings on government weaponization, where prosecutors concoct evidence to prosecute political enemies. No one from the Obama administration at the DOJ or FBI paid any price for malicious prosecution.
Democrats and the media think it’s perfectly OK to charge political foes with fake evidence to derail elections or anything else. Jordan and Comer had plenty of evidence against DOJ and FBI officials for fabricating charges against Trump and members of his 2016 presidential campaign. But government officials collude with the U.S. press leak allegations and write actual new-related stories all on fake evidence for the purpose of trying-and-convicting political enemies in the press. When Trump was convicted in Manhattan court of 34 felonies, the media had written and talked endlessly about Trump guilt for doctoring his business records to accommodate a payment to Stormy Daniels in 2016. Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg deliberately upgraded all of Trump’s charges to felonies when they were all typical misdemeanors. So, Trump has endured a lot of government abuse.
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John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news. He’s editor of OnlineColumnist.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma.
