There’s been extra talk lately about Trump’s vanity projects in DC. His stupid ballroom. His Arch. His ‘Trump type’ makeover of the public golf course at Haines Point. However his political and legal retribution desires have continued with equal fervor. You can be sure Republicans in Congress making formal criminal referrals against Jack Smith to the DOJ is due to Trump ordering it done. Even that isn’t enough for Trump and his minions in Congress now are going after Smith’s law license!
The way Trump sees it since some of his lawyer pals who pushed his batsh!t insane legal claims in court after he LOST the 2020 election wound up disbarred, then by golly Jack Smith who by all objective counts had Trump stone-cold-dead-to-rights with actual evidence should be disbarred too. Again, Smith had/has the goods on Trump and a ton of it comes from Republicans! That’s why Trump has a better chance at getting the Nobel Pease Prize he covets (None. Zero. Zip. When Hell freezes over etc.) than a criminal case against Smith actually making it to trial, much less Smith being convicted. The same holds true for a complaint to a state Bar resulting in disciplinary action against Smith but ‘bless his heart’ Trump is trying. As hard as he used to try to boink his daughter wannabe Princess Ivanka.
Smith of course will have to spend time and money (lots of it) in legal fees defending himself. That’ probably the point because even a dumbass like Trump knows Smith will never be convicted or disbarred. Smith as we know embarrassed both the GOP and Trump at a quite public (and televised) Senate hearing and made it clear that he had lots more evidence than the small amount revealed in the indictment that would convict Trump for inciting the Jan. 6 insurrection riot. Even worse is that Smith was willing (hell, eager!) to talk publicly about what was in Volume II of his report but Trump’s pet judge down in Florida has provided legal(?) means for AG Blanche and the DOJ to keep it buried with Trump’s first wife. Countless millions of Americans as in the bulk of us don’t drink nasty Trump Orange Kool Aid so it’s obvious Trump is hiding damning truths about the CRIMANL actions of himself and others.
Alas, since it costs Trump nothing but the time to make a few phone calls or mash his tiny, fat orange thumbs on his phone to issue orders he’s going to get back at Smith for showing up him and the GOP at that hearing. As I said his minions in Congress in both the House and Senate have made criminal referrals to the DOJ trying to get Smith prosecuted. If Blanche wants to keep his job he’ll move forward. On a parallel track the effort to have Smith disbarred is in the works as MS NOW explains. The article lays out different GOP Congress Critters absurd claims and why they have asked DOJ to take over and prosecute.
In another section MS NOW describes how Smith, who has always wanted to testify as long as he got to do so publicly handed Trump and the GOP their asses. You surely remember that memorable moment when Missouri Senator Eric Schmitt smugly sat back thinking he’d caught Smith committing perjury – only to have Smith make a fool of him. The whole exchange went viral. Predictably Trump was a very unhappy Trumpy Bear hence the orders to do something, anything to ‘get that Jack Smith guy’, to make him PAY, hence the criminal referrals but that still didn’t fix Trump’s butt-hurt:
But in case that were not quite enough, several other GOP members have even pushed for Smith’s disbarment, and the former prosecutor is now pushing back against these baseless efforts. Politico reported:
You’d think Team Trump would have just a tiny bit of connection to reality and a smidgeon of common sense. To know the first rule when realizing you’ve dug yourself into a hole is to stop digging! Smith sat there on national TV, calmly humiliating Trump and the GOP. Clearly he wasn’t the least bit intimidated by all the bluster and threats. And all that was in a form of a public court, something as a career prosecutor he’s not accustomed to. His home turf is in actual legal settings, be it a courtroom or now in a Bar investigation/hearing. That is where Jack Smith shines and he can and will squash this bullshit like a bug. He’s got the facts, the law and the code of rules and ethics on his side while Team Trump has… Trump’s made up crapola:
Jack Smith, the former special counsel who prosecuted President Donald Trump, is calling a GOP senator’s bid to seek his disbarment a “retaliatory political stunt” that misstates the scope of Congress’ immunity from prosecutorial scrutiny and relies on selectively leaked documents.
In a Nov. 3 letter to Tennessee bar discipline officials, reviewed by POLITICO, Smith said a complaint by Tennessee Republican Sen. Bill Hagerty was meant to punish Smith a day after his September testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
It seems Hagerty chose to hang his hat on the discredited and manufactured ‘controversy’ over the Artic Frost investigation:
With that in mind, Smith’s lawyers wrote a 21-page response to Hagerty’s pitiful pitch, arguing persuasively, “This meritless complaint is a retaliatory political stunt and should be dismissed.”
At the end of the linked article it’s pointed out Jack Smith has the facts, the law and reality on his side. Even the Bar in what’s still a Trump friendly state is unlikely to take any action against Smith beyond forcing him to answer the bogus claim that’s been made against him. I’d like to add one last thought of my own.
AG Todd Blanche was once a respected prosecutor in the famed Southern District of New York. An awful lot of folks who served with him wonder what the hell happened to him. It’s one thing to take a boatload of money (and it’s reasonable to think Blanche got a fat retainer upfront) to represent Trump. It’s quite another to morph into a mishmash of Rudy G., Sydney Powell and others like them. HE is abusing the immense power he holds as Attorney General and it’s fair to ask whether Blanche himself has stepped WAY over the ethic line, and perhaps even into criminal conspiracy. Wouldn’t it be deliciously ironic to at some point in the foreseeable future to wind up being the one being disciplined and/or disbarred?
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Trying to bring criminal charges against Jack Smith is similar to what I was told about arguing with an engineer. They said arguing with an engineer is like wrestling with a pig, after a while you realize the pig likes it. I’m sure Jack Smith welcomes the chance to make these folks look like the clowns they are.