Former President Donald Trump, 76, lashed out on his Truth Social network at 58-year-old Special Counsel Jack Smith and his film maker wife Kay Chevigny, both Trump claims are deeply biased Trump-haters. Whether that’s true or not, 70-year-old Atty. Gen. Merrick Garland must reconsider the need to a Special Counsel to determine whether the Department of Justice should bring charges against the former president for the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riots or the Aug. 8 raid on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate to recover classified documents. When it comes to the Jan. 6 House Select Committee, Garland knows the extreme political bias against Trump. When it comes to classified docs found at Mar-a-Lago, new revelations about 80-year-old President Joe Biden holding classified docs at various locations from his days as former President Barack Obama Vice President, ends charging Trump.
Garland appointed Smith Nov. 18, 2022 only three day after Trump announced his 2024 presidential campaign. Garland knew that the Jan. 6 House Select Committee recommended charges were too vague for any real criminal prosecution. All members of the Jan. 6 House Select Committee think Trump planned and orchestrated the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riots, or, as the Committee calls it, an insurrection. House Committee co-chaired by Rep. Bernie Thomson (D-Miss.) and former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wy.) said on the record Trump planned and orchestrated the Jan. 6 insurrection. Thomson and Cheney cite no facts, only their partisan and biased opinions, not something to help Garland and Smith go to trial. Garland and Smith thought they’d have an easier time indicting Trump on various records acts requiring Trump—or other elected officials—to safeguard classified information.
Revelations about Biden’s classified docs discoveries make charging Trump next to impossible for Garland and Smith. If Garland were really nonpartisan, he would immediately end the Special Counsel investigation, realizing that there’s not enough facts about intent to defraud or deceive needed to press charges. Garland didn’t need to appoint U.S. Atty. Robert Hur as Special Counsel to determine whether or not Biden broke any records laws. “Jack Smith (?) is a Trump Hating THUG whose wife is a serial and open Trump Hater, whose friends & other family members are even worse,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. Trump doesn’t need to bash Smith only to point out that there just no evidence to charge him with anything related to Jan. 6 or Mar-a-Lago classified docs. Garland must use his common sense to know that prosecuting Trump satisfies certain partisans but does the country no good.
Smith’s wife Chevigny donated $1,000 to Biden’s presidential campaign, raising more partisan questions about any Trump prosecution. “ Smith is known as “an unfair Savage,” & is best friends with the craziest Trump haters, including Lisa Monaco who runs “injustice,” Trump said in another post. Garland relies heavily on Deputy Atty. Gen. Lisa Monaco, a key player in 62-year-old former FBI Director James Comey’s counterintelligence investigation into Trump in 2016. Monaco conspired with former Obama administration officials to investigate Trump for his alleged ties to Russia. Monaco used former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham’s Clinton’s paid opposition research AKA the Steele dossier to justify going after Trump and his 2016 campaign. So, watching Monaco, now No. 2 at the DOJ, tell Garland to appoint Special Counsel Smith it continued the same partisan bias.
No amount of partisan bias against Trump stop Democrats and the press from writing fake stories, no matter how fabricated. All the stories from the New York Times and Washington Post about Trump’s alleged ties to Moscow were never vetted or verified. Using Hillary’s dossier to level charges at Trump was good enough for the Democrat Party, certainly partisan like former House Intel Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), who still insists he has evidence of Trump’s ties to the Kremlin. Schiff is one of the biggest Trump-haters in Congress, willing to do or say anything to wreck his political career. Garland and Smith should take into account the five years of persecution against Trump, all proving fabricated by partisans like Schiff. No impartial U.S. prosecutor can count on any manufactured evidence against Trump. Garland should stop wasting DOJ time and resources on partisan vendettas against the former president. Ending the Special Counsel is the first step.
Revelations about finding classified documents in multiple locations from his days as Vice Pesident should send a loud message to Garland that the DOJ can’t go forward with charging Trump because of Democrat and media bias. Garland must look carefully at Monaco’s role in orchestrating Comey’s past counterintelligence investigation into Trump’s 2016 and presidency. Letting Monaco now direct the Special Counsel investigation against Trump goes over the top in terms of partisan bias. Monaco should not urgie Garland to charge Trump based on her past involvement in the Russian hoax. If Garland can’t make his own decision, he should seriously consider resigning as Attorney General. Monaco, as an Obama holdout, has extreme prejudice against the former President Trump. Whatever Trump or Biden did with classifed docs, it doesn’t warrant wasting DOJ time.
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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.
