In November 2022, Attorney General Merrick Garland assigned Jack Smith the responsibility of overseeing two investigations related to former President Donald Trump. Since then, Smith has brought four criminal charges against Trump for his alleged involvement in attempting to overturn the 2020 election, along with more than three dozen additional charges pertaining to the possession of classified documents in Florida.
Critics of the prosecution, like Straight Arrow News contributor Newt Gingrich, contend that Jack Smith exhibits bias and assert that he is pursuing a case against the former president that they view as rigged.
There are a whole series of these kind of things coming down the road and we’re going to discover more and more that this is a rigged case brought by a really bad lawyer — a man who by the way was deeply involved a long time ago with Lois Lerner at the Internal Revenue Service, when he was in the Obama Justice Department. And they were plotting to take tax information about Tea Party organizations and use them to file criminal complaints, something which was totally illegal, and which blew up in their faces.
Jack Smith then got involved in trying to go after Governor [Bob] McDonnell of Virginia, ultimately was repudiated unanimously by the Supreme Court for having lied to the jury about what a law meant. And they just said it was a terrible, terrible performance.
This is the person that the Attorney General picked to go after Donald Trump. And I think we’re about to find once again that Smith may have outsmarted himself, because he will have violated the rules in such a way that, in fact, Trump may presently be able to move to simply drop the entire case, because it is impossible to get accurate information.
And it’s impossible to meet the discovery standards that every person who’s indicted is entitled to because we really do believe that everyone in America is innocent until proven guilty. They’re not guilty until proven innocent. And Jack Smith may have outsmarted himself in a way that will be historic.
