During a television broadcast on Thursday, former federal special counsel Jack Smith expressed deep concern regarding the current state of American jurisprudence. Appearing on the MS NOW program hosted by Nicolle Wallace, the former prosecutor described the current political landscape as an extraordinary threat to the nation’s legal foundations. He characterized the ongoing institutional shift as a unique challenge, calling it an assault “different in kind and scope to anything I’ve seen in my lifetime.” This marked his initial public media appearance since stepping down from his federal post in January 2025.

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    I just can’t take anyone who was a part of the administration who tee’d up Trump 2.0 seriously. They didn’t take their jobs seriously. They are not serious people.

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        No. The problem was Biden, the administration, and pieces of shit who excused a genocide because they thought it was politically expedient to do so. An you own that, making excuses in their behalf.

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            Kamala depressed voter turn out through her actions. Asking or demanding she take diff actions isn’t suppressing turnout you perpetually delusional spoiler.

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                Follow the thread. Its one administration is the premise. Kamala was as supportive of Israels genocide as Joe Biden. She famously said she that nothing came to mind with regards to anything she would do differently than Biden, in her campaign, live on The View.

                The ask was simply: Change your policy so you don’t lose the election, Biden OR Kamala. It was literally all they needed to do. It was as obvious then as it is obvious now. Democratic voters weren’t supportive of the Administrations genocide. They’d need to change policy or they’d lose the election.

                YOU Interpreted that as “I don’t want Harris or Biden to win, because I’m highlighting a policy of theirs which is so unpopular, its resulting in them losing the election.”

                The policy was so unpopular, it broke the Blue Wall in the upper mid-west.

                When voters told the administration their issues, your instinct was to blame them for voicing their opinions and dissent in a democracy. And its not like you were unique in this regard. Most of mainstream media went along with your notion; or rather, your notions are dispensated to you through mainstream media sources. And because we told you the error of your ways early enough for you to have actually changed them, just like alternative media did for mainstream media, its more convenient for you to represent us as pariah, rather than to address the fact that you were wrong from the onset, wrong in the process, and have committed yourself to a cult of defending the indefensible.

                So I know you aren’t coming back to reality. But I am going to just keep repeating the same simple points against the gaslighting and brigading:

                • If either Harris or Biden would have committed to a policy change on Israel/ Gaza in 2024, they would not have lost the election.

                • The progressive left has been markedly consistent on this issue since 2023.

                • Liberals and Democratic mascots have built an insular cult of denialism around their role in setting the Democrats up for failure in 2024. Them acting as apologia for the administration created the situation of Biden having to step down and Harris refusing to step away from a deeply unpopular policy.

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      My dude, Jack Smith was appointed in November of 2022 and filed the first indictment in June of 2023. You can call out Garland and Biden for slow-walking it, but not Smith.

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        The administration can never be failure. It can only ever be failed. Makes no difference how hard LeBron worked if the Lakers lost. The Biden presidency was a failure and this man was part of that failure. There aren’t acceptable excuses.

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          Biden and Garland failed to prosecute Trump. See, that’s easy for me to say and I never said contrary. Smith did not fail to prosecute Trump, he did in 6 months of having been given the assignment to do so. The judicial system failed to uphold legal frameworks and made Smith’s prosecutions moot, that wasn’t Smith’s fault.

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              Perfect must always get in the way of better, and we can’t acknowledge anything that was good until there is nothing bad left. Keep on keepin’ on Señor DingDong.

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                Jesus fucking Christ it’s the the flaming liberal spirit of Joe Biden manifest. “I’ll feel as long as I gave it my all and I did the goodest job as I know I can do, that’s what this is about”

                No. It’s not good enough. Failure wasn’t an option in the fight against fascissm and because liberals refused to stop blindly cheerleading, the administration thought they could just “try their goodest” and that that would be enough.

                2024 isn’t on the voters when the administration, and yes, Smith is a part of that failure, was as historic as a failure as they’ll be recorded to have been.

                And there is a cult here that doesn’t want to acknowledge that how they approached both the 2024 election and the Biden Presidency set Trump up to win because a contingent of us recognized it and told them what they were doing was harmful in real time.

                It’s blue maga. It’s a cult.

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                  The point that you are rabidly trying to ignore and convince people not to acknowledge is that recognizing that Jack Smith was doing a good job doesn’t in any way mean you must also then wholly approve of everything Joe Biden ever did. Biden failed in many ways. See? I’m aware of it and nobody is arguing that with you. Smith went hard on building his cases and securing indictments and fighting in court. It’s ok for you to acknowledge that. Nobody is going to think it means you’re a Biden supporter if you do. If you won’t ever give praise for the good, then nobody is going to give a shit if you think what they’ve done is bad.

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                    Whats it like being in a cult?

                    Jack Smith was doing a good job

                    Oh. So Trump is in jail?.. oh… oh he’s not. Okay then. Oh you mean to tell me Trump actually went on to win the presidency? Then Jack Smith is a failure, along with the entirety of the administration.

                    If you won’t ever give praise for the good

                    See this is what a cult does. You revel in performative concessions. Its virtue signalling on your behalf. You want to signal “see, I’m on team good”, ignoring the fact that the manner in which you demand people fall into line with and support the objective failure of an administration predictably results in the other team winning. You are literally gaslighting people. And it doesn’t win elections. It loses them.

                    then nobody is going to give a shit if you think what they’ve done is bad.

                    Actually, if you look around electorally, whats happening in the real world is the opposite of what you say. Blue MAGA, Third Way, AIPAC funded neoliberalism which will only ever “tut tut” at Israel; they’re largely losing across the board. Americans HATE you and your politics. But they like my politics, or, at least they’re so fed up with yours they’re ready to walk away and try something else.

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              “The only people who disagree with me are neoliberals and fascists”, cried the Dingdong. It does not, of course, perceive that the only matching call in the forest is that of its greatest competitor species, the lowly maggat, with its cries of “The only people who disagree with me are commies and socialists”

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        Keep downvoting this, salty losers. Doesnt change the fact you knowingly threw minorities under the bus to spite Harris.