George Washington University law professor and Fox News contributor Jonathan Turley doesn’t think history will remember Jack Smith fondly for his lawfare against Donald Trump. Turley calls Trump’s re-election “the largest effective jury verdict in history.”
“Smith had sort of a gratuitous end to his term. You know, he pushed not only for a trial before the election, and he pushed for months for that, but he also released damaging information before the election something that many people saw as an effort to influence the election,” Turley said. “Smith knew that if Trump won, he was out of a job and this release of the information was entirely unnecessary, [Judge Tanya Chutkan] admitted that it was procedurally irregular, but she went along with it and I think that that did tarnish his position and certainly in history because he didn’t have to do that. He had become so absolutely fixated on trying Trump before the election, that he lost credibility I think with the courts.”
“I think it’s also very important to remember that Smith’s case was riddled with constitutional problems,” Turley continued. “When the Supreme Court reached its immunity decision, it was clear he would have to pare down the indictment. He really didn’t do it to the degree that he needed to do. He took a very minimalist approach, he removed a few references, a few witnesses that stemmed from the first Trump presidency. But he largely just repackaged it and some of us said that we thought that it was not enough.”
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.@JonathanTurley: "I wrote over a year ago that there was a good chance Jack Smith would never see the inside of a courtroom for a trial in this case. It made this election the largest effective jury verdict in history by re-electing Donald Trump." pic.twitter.com/UFmucqjs99
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