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.
I’ll always cheer whenever Jack Smith makes an appearance
He needs more attention huh?
Some people deserve attention. Some people get more attention than they deserve.
I’d rather be listening to Jack Smith than the guy who said they were investigating injecting disinfectant to cure covid
Jack Smith did effectively nothing of any value. He got himself headlines and did nothing.
Hear me out. Downvote me if you must.
I know the prevailing thought from the informed is “duh. We know this.” And I have been guilty of thinking this as well.
The truth is with Bannons “flood the zone” media blitz strategy we are living in a time where the obvious bears repeating. We may know, we may be frustrated that it needs to be repeated but somewhere out there someone needs to be reminded. Reason is irrelevant. The zone needs to be flooded with the same truth over and over until the ignorant can’t ignore it.
There’s no reason to downvote you, you’re correct. The only issue I have with this reasoning is that it doesn’t take into account that those accepting the flooding aggressively reject outside information no matter how it’s offered.
We can all be wrong because we want something to be true for whatever the reason, that’s understandable. The rejection of truth otoh is problematic, especially when that rejection rejoices in harm to others.
Excellently stated - this is an important strategy that we should be mindful of. Also, nice username.
I think this needs to be the top comment on half of the posts in this community.
lemmy needs flair functionality
PieFed has emoji reacts, pretty close
Yeah. Another problem is the Dems always come from a defensive posture. The right says Medicare has fraud. The left has to say yes, but….
We all know there’s fraud, but it’s minimal and doesn’t mean we tear it all down.
The left absolutely needs to get the messaging straight and then get it out there.
The person that probably knows the most about Trump’s egregious acts of treason, sedition, embezzlement, and child sex trafficking history is saying this.
And I don’t doubt a word of it.
But when half of the country is currently suffering a cult like form mass psychosis, it’s hard to find cures that are peaceful
I think it’s only 37% of the country now. If everyone else had a unified mentality it would almost have a supermajority.
Thanks Jack, but the people who pay attention to the news will listen to you and say “Duh, we already know this, it’s blatantly obvious.”
The rest of the people are either profiting off of it, don’t know this but also don’t care, or don’t trust a word you say.
That would’ve been nice 10 or 12 years ago.
But because you’ve kept silent until now, you’re nothing short of a traitor
FUCK YOU
Maybe you should’ve been the one keeping silent because you obviously have no idea WTF you’re talking about.
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You must’ve misheard.
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Oh wow this person is really tough.
Ooh, ooh, can I get a block?! Pick me! Pick me!
You should have said this while you were in the job. And you should have stayed in the job and fought for the law. Now you’re just another everyday American. Powerless.
You apparently don’t comprehend what a severe breach of protocol that would have been while he was still investigating. It could be enough to doom the case on technicalities alone.
He presented to a grand jury and got an indictment. They released summaries and reports, all according to protocol. He had to cross every T and dot every I and do everything right, because the case was too important to risk losing it on technicalities.
But no, he’s not just another everyday American. He made a headline, didn’t he? That’s more than you can do. That’s not powerless, at least not as powerless as you.
Oh no, not the breached protocols! At least Trump never does that.
Yeah, you’re a fucking dumbass if you can’t see how that would cripple the entire investigation.
Playing clean while your opponent plays dirty is a guaranteed loss. Idc about protocol if following it means people die and my country crumbles. People too afraid to stick their necks out and get their hands dirty are a major part of the problem at this point.
You think breaking protocol as the chief prosecutor on the case and “getting hands dirty” would have made things any better?
The investigation was already crippled, as it amounted to no jail time. So what is lost by using different tactics? Your way didn’t work.
So, what, he should have given up? Because if he looked into his crystal ball he could have seen that the corrupt supreme court would punt the case till after the election anyway? So he shouldn’t have even tried? Is that seriously what you want to claim?
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.
You know who teed up trump?
People who voted for him. Also the people that didn’t vote.
That’s where the problem lays.
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.
Imagine being this dumb
I hate seeing people try to depress voter turner for the midterms like you are doing now.
Kamala depressed voter turn out through her actions. Asking or demanding she take diff actions isn’t suppressing turnout you perpetually delusional spoiler.
I thought you blamed Biden?
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:
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If either Harris or Biden would have committed to a policy change on Israel/ Gaza in 2024, they would not have lost the election.
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The progressive left has been markedly consistent on this issue since 2023.
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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.
The Trump administration then, correct?
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It was both.
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.
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.
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.
It’s one fucking administration dude. One fucking team working together.
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.
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.
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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“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”
From the team demanding performative concessions…
So you’re a Sith?
Neither were the voters/ sitouts. Never forget.
Keep downvoting this, salty losers. Doesnt change the fact you knowingly threw minorities under the bus to spite Harris.
Thank god jack Smith is here to tell us about unprecedented attacks on the rule of law. We wouldn’t have noticed otherwise.
When do these attacks start Jack? Is he thinking of accepting foreign emoluments? Say it isn’t so.
