Jack Smith has grown frustrated with ongoing congressional and prosecutorial attacks following the 2024 election, which halted final accountability efforts and empowered a conservative majority. Smith has faced repeated demands from Representative Jim Jordan to testify in closed-door committee sessions, which would exclude press and public. Smith publicly criticized the Justice Department for abandoning established processes, saying career, apolitical prosecutors found no case and a non-criminal prosecutor was brought in hurriedly to secure an indictment just before the statute of limitations expired. Smith's legal team then challenged Jordan's demand.
"Process shouldn't be a political issue, right? Like if there's rules in the department about how to bring a case, follow those rules. You can't say, I want this outcome, let me throw the rules out.' You know, there's a process to secure an indictment. There's a process of predication, having some evidence before you do that. The career prosecutors, the apolitical prosecutors who analyzed this said there wasn't a case"
"Ever since the 2024 election chloroformed any final attempt to hold El Caudillo del Mar-a-Lago responsible for his many crimes against the republicand ever since the carefully manufactured conservative majority enabled him to commit even moreSmith has lived under a constant threat of tinhorn congressional investigations and burlesque criminal prosecution. One of the primary agitators has been Representative Jim Jordan (R-Van Heusen), the pestiferous nuisance from Ohio who chairs the House Judiciary Committee."
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