Fox News demolished Jack Smith for taking this cheap shot at Donald Trump
Joe Biden prosecutor Jack Smith wanted one more go at Donald Trump.
Smith took his last big swing.
And Fox News demolished Jack Smith for taking this cheap shot at Donald Trump.
Jack Smith’s dud of a report
Jack Smith tried to create one final round of chaos for Donald Trump with his 137-page page report about the January 6 hoax he pushed to land Donald Trump in jail.
Smith’s report was a one-sided kangaroo court document that only included his side of the story, with his spin on events and the evidence he planned to introduce at the show trial he wanted to stage for Trump.
Former federal prosecutor Katie Cherkasky appeared on Fox & Friends to analyze Smith’s findings.
Cherkasky brushed them as the deranged rantings of a fanatic obsessed with jailing Donald Trump.
“This is nothing more than a prosecution on paper,” Cherkasky told viewers. “It’s every prosecutor’s dream. You have no rebuttal. You have no cross-examination. You don’t actually have to prove this case. And in fact, nothing in this report is particularly new.”
Cherkasky explained that there was nothing new on this report that wasn’t included in the indictment and the superseding indictment that Smith filed against Trump, indictments that Cherkasky reminded the audience that the American people rendered their verdict on with the decisive victory Donald Trump scored on November 5.
“Jack Smith had released the indictment, the superseding indictment,” Cherkasky stated. “All the same facts are there. The American people overwhelmingly voted for President Trump, knowing all of what he claims would have sustained this conviction on these unprecedented charges. So, quite frankly, this is just a partisan effort at lawfare, yet again couched in legal jargon.”
Co-host Lawrence Jones focused on the fact that Smith wanted to prosecute Trump because he told his supporters to “fight, fight, fight,” the same response Trump delivered to his supporters after an assassin shot him in the head.
“When [Jack Smith] talks about when the president said peacefully and patriotically protest, but he says the president said ‘fight, fight, fight’ ten times after that, he hinged it on ‘fight, fight, fight.’ My mind goes to the most iconic moment of the president, which is when he was attempted to be assassinated and he said, ‘Fight, fight, fight.’ So how does he use that as justification?” Jones asked.
Smith admitted that politicians asking their supporters to fight is common political rhetoric but that it wasn’t protected by the First Amendment because it was based on what Smith claimed were false claims of election fraud.
The First Amendment protected Trump’s speech because Smith later admitted in his report that his office couldn’t bring insurrection charges against President Trump because it wouldn’t hold up under legal challenges.
Cherkasky wrapped up by describing Smith’s case as a big, fat nothing burger, since nothing in Smith’s report showed Trump actually committed a real crime.
“So, again, the underlying issue with proving this case was always going to be to prove the criminal intent of Donald Trump. And that hasn’t been established by this report. And I don’t think it would have been established in a courtroom with any sort of due process,” Cherkasky concluded. “But certainly, I think this is just a shame that this was released. I think that is just pure lawfare and serves absolutely no purpose but to undermine Americans’ confidence in the justice system.”
