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Thursday, July 02, 2026

"Jack Smith, the former special counsel who brought two federal indictments against Donald Trump, said he believes the rule of law is under an unprecedented attack during his first televised interview since resigning from the Justice Department less than two weeks before Trump returned to office in 2025.

Speaking to MS NOW's Nicolle Wallace on Thursday, Smith said the attack is "different in kind and scope to anything I've seen in my lifetime."

"I have investigated cases focusing on the facts and law throughout my career. We did this case the same way, under the same standards," said Smith, who brought charges accusing Trump of interfering in the 2020 election."

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"I have investigated cases focusing on the facts and law throughout my career. We did this case the same way, under the same standards," Smith told MS NOW.

"The thing that's important for your viewers to know is those standards are not meant to change from one administration to the next, and in my experience " until now " they haven't."

In the election interference case, Smith said Trump was culpable in the storming of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, after he lost to Joe Biden in the November election.

The rioters were trying to stop the House from certifying the election results after Trump told them to march to the Capitol.

Smith also indicted Trump on federal criminal charges of retaining classified documents at his Mar-a-Largo home in Florida after his first term ended."

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Trump's own hand-picked, loyal DOJ testified they had threatened to resign en masse if he told them one more time to break the Law by telling States to remove Biden's name on Ballots and replace it with Trump's.

Had Smith not sought to prosecute Trump's many crimes, given all the Evidence, he could have lost his own job.

#1 | Posted by Corky at 2026-07-02 06:43 PM | Reply

"Both criminal cases led to federal indictments but were ultimately dismissed after Dummkopf Trumpf won his second term, due to a long-standing Department of Justice policy that prevents sitting presidents from facing criminal prosecution."

"Policy," not law.

#2 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-07-02 06:48 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

By "law enforcement".

#3 | Posted by fresno500 at 2026-07-02 07:25 PM | Reply

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