Jack Smith, Trump’s Target, Shifts From Defense to Counterattack

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President Trump’s unrelenting fast-track drive to humiliate, investigate and prosecute the people he hates has gained momentum, in part, because his targets have not been in a position to inflict serious retributive pain on him.

Jack Smith is different.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/us/politics/jack-smith-trump-investigations.html

 

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Mr. Smith, who spent more than two years aggressively collecting evidence to prove Mr. Trump mishandled classified documents and tried to overturn the results of the 2020 election, appears eager to publicly challenge a foundational pillar of MAGA canon: that the president was a sinned-upon innocent who did nothing to deserve scrutiny, much less two prosecutions.

 

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“The idea that politics played a role in who worked on that case, or who got chosen, is ludicrous,” Mr. Smith said during an early October interview with Andrew Weissmann, another former prosecutor targeted by Mr. Trump, at the University College London.