LOS ANGELES.–Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.), 49, thinks Atty. Gen. nominee Pam Bondi should fire all Department of Justice prosecutors that worked to prosecute 78-year-old President Donald Trump, knowing the prosecutions were not based on the Constitution or rule of law but politics. “First and foremost, the people involved with this should be fired immediately,” Schmitt said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” Schmitt believes that the DOJ crossed the line into rogue lawlessness with deep state partisan hacks used the nation’s premier criminal justice establish for political purpose to stop Trump from running for president. “And anybody part of this, this effort to keep President Trump of the ballot and to throw him in jail for the rest of his life because they didn’t like his politics, and who continue to cast him as a quote threat to democracy was wrong, and so we’ll see where that goes,” Schmitt said.
Schmitt believes the DOJ abused its authority to prosecute Trump, all because Democrats used the agency to advance its political agenda of preventing him by legal means from running for present. When you consider the volume of legal cases against Trump, running from New York City and New York State court, all the way to Fulton County, Ga., where a rogue prosecutor Fani Willis charged Trump and his colleagues with racketeering, it’s no wonder Schmitt feels the way he does. Trump was harassed by the DOJ and FBI while president with 63-year-old former FBI Director James Comey launching a counterintelligence investigation of Trump and his 2016 campaign based on bogus probable cause obtained from former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s fake opposition research AKA “The Steele Dossier.” DOJ engaged in extrajudicial prosecution against Trump.
Today Special Counsel Jack Smith said he’s dropping his two cases against Trump, one obstruction case with Judge Tanya Chutkin and the other in the Appeals Court with Judge Aileen Cannon decision to toss out Trump classified documents case. Trump still needs Manhattan Judge Juan Merchant to toss out the May 31, 2024 conviction of 34 felonies in the Stormy Daniels hush money case. Schmitt certainly knows how the corrupt criminal justice system has been used to stop Trump from running for president in 2024. Schmitt told NBC’s Kristen Welker there must be accountability at the DOJ for anyone involved with prosecuting Trump for political reasons. “[The cases] all fell apart under the weight of the law. And so I do think there needs to be accountability. I think that getting it back to crime-fighting is important, but there has to be accountability for these kinds of abuses,” Schmitt said.
Democrats and the press call Trump’s intent to clean up the DOJ as “political retribution” for his enemies in the government and the press. “He should be prosecuted for election interference & prosecutorial misconduct,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform referring to Special Counsel Jack Smith. Why should Smith be exempt from prosecution when he led two federal cases against Trump, one for Jan. 6, 2020 election obstruction and the other for harboring classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate? “WHEN I WIN, those people that CHEATED will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the Law, which will include long term prison sentences. Please beware that this legal exposure extends to Lawyers, Political Operatives, Donors, Illegal Voters & Corrupt Election Officials,” Trump wrote. Trump expects his Atty. Gen. nominee Pam Bondi to carry out his orders.
Democrats and the press continue to call Trump a threat to democracy, though much less than before he won the Nov. 5 vote in a landslide. Vice President Kamala Harris told CNN’s Anderson Cooper at town hall before the election that Trump was a “fascist.” All of that defamatory rhetoric was part of her strategist David Plouffe’s election blueprint to spend the election denigrating Trump with old Democrat talking points. Kamala rarely deviated from the script of slamming Trump with defamatory labels like he’s “unhinged” and “unfit” for president, often calling him a convicted felon for his politically charged Manhattan hush money case prosecuted by Trump enemey DA Alvin Bragg. Kamala didn’t deviate much from the script leaving voters frustrated that they had no clue what she would do with four more years to fix the inflation-ridden economy and dangerous foreign wars.
Democrats and the corrupt U.S. press call Trump’s plans at the DOJ “retribution.” What did they call the DOJ’s malicious investigations and prosecution of Trump from his 2016 campaign to current time.? While Jack Smith announcing today that he’s dropping his two cases against Trump, he continues to spread more propaganda saying it’s not because the cases don’t have legal merit. Smith wants to excuse the inexcusable to use the DOJ to interfere with the 2024 presidential election hoping to convict Trump of fake crimes for purely political reasons. When Trump says Smith should be prosecuted for malicious prosecution, he’s not kidding. Instead of Smith dropping his cases quietly, he felt inclined to justify his cases against Trump. Smith won’t admit his connection to the Democrat Party, throwing the book at Trump to stop him from becoming president.
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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.
