Jack Smith made one final push to get Donald Trump before the election.
His scheme was thrown for a loop.
And Jack Smith was hit with one nasty curveball that left him mad as hell.
Communications requested between Smith and the Biden-Harris DOJ
Special Counsel Jack Smith’s criminal case against former President Donald Trump over January 6 was paused most of the year while the Supreme Court weighed in on Presidential immunity.
The Supreme Court ruled in July that Presidents have absolute immunity from criminal prosecution for official acts committed while in office.
Smith responded to that ruling by filing a superseding indictment in his January 6 case that kept the same four criminal charges, but removed evidence that would have been stricken over Presidential immunity.
That was the Special Counsel’s last-gasp effort to keep his witch hunt against Trump going.
Senator Eric Schmitt (R-MO) fired off a letter to Biden-Harris Attorney General Merrick Garland demanding he turn over communications between the Justice Department and Smith about his superseding indictment against Trump.
Schmitt also noted that the Justice Department was reviving the “Russian election interference bogeyman” this year after several social media personalities were unknowingly paid by a Russian-funded startup to license their content.
The Biden-Harris Justice Department’s targeting of Trump continues
“I write to express my disappointment with two political decisions by the Department of Justice in recent weeks,” Schmitt wrote. “These decisions do not seem thought out and threaten to continue to turn the DOJ into a ‘political weapon.’”
The Justice Department’s manual for prosecutors states that criminal charges shouldn’t be filed within 90 days of an election, but Smith ignored that with his superseding indictment.
“Yet, the DOJ is blatantly ignoring norms and for the first time in our nation’s history prosecuting its political opponents—not only while votes are being cast but also with a constitutionally suspect prosecutor,” Schmitt added.
District Judge Aileen Cannon dismissed the criminal case against Trump over allegedly mishandling classified documents after she ruled that Smith had been unlawfully appointed by Garland.
Schmitt asked for any communications between the Justice Department and the Special Counsel’s office after Cannon’s ruling against Smith.
“If Smith’s appointment to oversee one of the cases is unlawful, then so is the other,” Schmitt’s letter states. “Moreover, the lawfulness of Smith’s appointment is currently on appeal at the Eleventh Circuit. DOJ, by allowing Smith to remain as special counsel, is flouting the only judicial decision we have on the lawfulness of his appointment and ignoring the fact that his position’s legal status is in limbo before a federal appellate court.”
Schmitt warned that the superseding indictment against Trump being filed so close to early voting was a form of “election interference” by the Justice Department.
“While a federal judge has a ruling against his constitutional authority to act, the DOJ has, imprudently, acquiesced to Jack Smith’s rabid, political prosecution of President Trump,” Schmitt’s letter states. “His continued action has created a miniature constitutional crisis as a man with highly suspect constitutionality to act is like a dog after his bone antagonizing the Republican nominee for President (and a former President of the United States). He must be leashed.”
Trump supporters have long suspected that the Biden-Harris Justice Department was colluding with Smith in the criminal cases against the former President.
Now, they could finally get an answer.
