LOS ANGELES.–Telling 78-year-old President Donald Trump “you can’t fire me, I quit,” 55-year-old Special Counsel Jack Smith showed his true colors, that his cases against the former president were all politically motivated, worthless legal cases all built on fabricated probable cause. Smith announced today that he would wrap up his work before the Jan. 20, 2025 inauguration when he was certain to be fired as Trump’s first order of business. Trump said he would fire Smith in “two seconds,” knowing that Smith was the tip-of-the-spear in a carefully orchestrated government plout against his 2024 run for president. Democrats and the press did everything possible to stop Trump from running for president, including an attempt under the 14th Amendment to keep him off the ballot. Smith was appointed Nov. 18, 2022 by 72-year-old Atty. Gen. Merrick Garland to prosecute Trump.
Smith claimed he had rock solid cases against Trump, (1) June 8, 2023 for retaining classified docs at Mar-a-Lago and election and (2) Aug. 2, 2023 for obstructing the 2020 election. Smith knew from Day One he had no evidence in either case, other than pure conjecture about Trump’s role in the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riots and his willful retention of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago. Smith took as evidence the Jan. 6 House Select Committee who worked night-and-day to do what the House Judiciary Committee couldn’t do impeaching Trump for “incitement of insurrection.” Democrats called the Jan. 6 Capitol riots an insurrection to invoke the 14th Amendment, Section 3, that said no one participating in insurrection can run for public office. Democrats and press made their best case but were shot down by the Supreme Court March 4.
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi practically stood on her head to get Trump, impeaching him for “incitement of insurrection” on Jan. 13, 2021, ending in Senate acquittal Feb. 13, 3021, after Trump left office. But Pelosi and House Democrats wouldn’t take no for an answer, opening up the Jan. 6 House Select Committee June 6, 2021, spending 18 months, fabricating a case against Trump for planning-and-orchestrating the Jan. 6 Capitol riots. Because the corrupt U.S. press cooperated fully with the House Select Committee, they called Jan. 6 insurrectionists “Trump backers,” giving the impression they had goods on Trump that he planned-and-organized the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riots. Once the FBI confirmed that the Jan. 6 riots were planned for months, it blew Pelosi’s premise that Trump “incited” violence by delivering a speech at the Ellipse on Jan. 6.
` Smith decided the bailout of his obligation holding great hopes for Democrats and the press that Trump could be eventually convicted. Smith had the Jan. 6 House Select Committees recommendations but has no evidence that Trump ever participated. Smith said he would show at trial Trump’s state-of-mind that he didn’t believe any of the reports of election fraud but nonetheless told the public to “Stop the Steal.” Smith was attempting in his Grand Jury indictment to read Trump’s mind and say he never believed he was cheated out of the 2020 presidential election. Smith said his decision to resign was based on a Department of Justice policy to not prosecute a sitting president for real-or-imagined criminal offenses. Smith bailed out quickly know he would be fired Trump’s Inauguration Day. Smith had no real conviction in his two federal cases against Trump.
Democrats and the press hoped his cases would throw a monkey wrench into Trump plans to run for president in 2024. Trump’s attorneys did a good job of delaying Smith’s two cases but the biggest blow came July 1 when the Supreme Court ruled that presidents enjoys immunity to criminal prosecution while administering official duties as president. Smith was involved behind closed doors in lending help to Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg’s case against Trump for altering records to pay of former porn star Stormy Daniels. Bragg ran in 2021 on a platform to charging Trump for his hush money payments to Stormy Daniels in 2016. Bragg’s predecessor Cyrus Vance Jr. declined to prosecute Trump because of a lack of evidence needed to convict the former president of wrongdoing. Yet Bragg plowed ahead charging Trump with 34 felonies all upgraded from misdemeanors.
Smith had no real conviction in either of the two cases against Trump, pushed to indict him by the Democrats looking to stop his 2024 election campaign anyway possible. Smith’s two indictments shows the kind of flaws in the Grand Jury System, where lay people are bamboozled by zealous prosecutors to file charges. When it comes to any of the cases against Trump, the American people decided what they think of the criminal justice system on Nov. 5. Trump won a resounding victory because the voting public knew that Smith railroaded Trump in phony trials without any evidence of wrong doing. When Bragg got his conviction May 30 for 34 felonies, the public couldn’t figure out what Trump had done wrong. Bragg admitted that he upgraded the bookkeeping infractions into Class 3 felonies when they are normally not charged at all or at w
orse misdemeanors. Smith was happy to bail out as Special Counsel know the cases would never go ahead to trial.
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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.
