by Jim Thompson, Red State:
Special Counsel Jack Smith isn’t a stupid man. A number of definitions apply to Smith, but stupid isn’t one of them. A zealot? A vainglorious, demagogic political hack who is doing the bidding of another political hack? Yes, to both. But Jack Smith isn’t dumb.
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The Court of Appeals affirmed both convictions, but in 2015, the Supreme Court, in a unanimous decision, vacated Smith’s convictions, finding that Smith and his strong-arming gang had invented a new meaning for “official act.” Smith had interpreted the statutory term of “official act” too broadly. So it seems that Smith has a history of channeling Lavrentiy Beria. Beria was Stalin’s secret police chief and was infamous for targeting someone and then finding a crime to fit the arrest. “Find me the man, and I will show you the crime” – or some iteration of the same.
Eight years later, while the DOJ was targeting Trump, Garland tapped Smith as Special Counsel. Smith got to work right away. No time to waste. Smith had his target. That target was Trump. Now he needed to find the crime to fit. Smith’s appointment was, of course, purposeful. Merrick Garland appointed Smith knowing that Smith would have the imprimatur of impartiality via the special counsel statute but while Smith is many things, impartial isn’t one of them. Jack Smith is a lifelong and faithful Democrat. One needn’t be a body-language expert to see that Smith hates Trump with the heat of a thousand suns. Smith had his target. He needed to find the crime. And he did.
The new indictment of Trump is fraught with McDonnell-type invention and bad-faith interpretation of the statutes. Smith’s charging document is really an out-of-office impeachment dressed as a criminal indictment. The indictment has been previously discussed at RedState, but what jumps out to me is that Smith is pushing for an early trial date not to provide a quick resolution and to “do justice”; rather, Smith wants a partisan DC jury to quickly convict Trump, thus setting up Smith’s next level of political gamesmanship. Smith wants Trump’s conviction to be heard and decided by the Supreme Court, knowing full well that a Trump conviction has no chance of affirmation at SCOTUS. Smith is counting on it. Smith wants the Supreme Court to vacate his almost certain conviction in order to enflame the Democratic base. He wants to hand Joe Biden another “the Supreme Court is illegitimate” gift.
