Prosecutors use rhetoric and hyperbole to convince juries – or the public as the case may be – of the vile, evil propensity for wrongdoing in those they’ve accused.
But Jack Smith, the prosecutor hand-picked by the Biden administration to bring one of its cases, over Jan. 6, 2021, against President Trump, appears to have gone over the edge.
He’s charging that there’s nothing the U.S. could do if a president, during a State of the Union address, incited followers to kill opposing politicians.
Smith has outlined the details of his wild claims in a court filing.
He said, “The nation would have no recourse to deter a president from inciting his supporters during a State of the Union address to kill opposing lawmakers … to ensure that he remains in office unlawfully.”
BREAKING: Jack Smith warns if Trump is re-elected he could use the State of the Union address to incite his supporters to kill opposing politicians pic.twitter.com/q0nrGYlbnw
— Jack Poso 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) January 4, 2024
NBC explained the Smith comments are in a “new filing” and outline “what could happen if Donald Trump is granted immunity in the Jan. 6 coup case.”
Alternet went further in its reporting.
It explained that Smith also charged that a president could commit any hypothetical crime, “from ordering the FBI to fabricate evidence against political opponents, ordering a U.S. military assassination or selling nuclear secrets to a foreign country.”
Smith is trying to defeat the provision for presidential immunity claimed by President Trump for events while he was in office.
“In each of these scenarios, the president could assert that he was simply executing the laws; or communicating with the Department of Justice; or discharging his powers as commander-in-chief; or engaging in foreign diplomacy,” Smith’s filing said. “Under the defendant’s framework, the nation would have no recourse to deter a president from inciting his supporters during a State of the Union address to kill opposing lawmakers – thereby hamstringing any impeachment proceeding – to ensure that he remains in office unlawfully.”
The case is pending before Judge Tanya Chutkan, who previously publicly condemned President Trump and suggested he should be in jail, after she refused requests that she pass the case along to someone without a bias.
That issue of immunity now is pending before the Supreme Court, and Chutkan halted deadlines in the case until that’s resolved.
That action, however, prompted a request by Trump that Smith be held in contempt of court.
The problem is that when a prosecutor files a politically loaded charge, it is incumbent upon a defendant to respond.
The Daily Caller News Foundation explained, “Smith has continued to file documents on the suspended deadlines, which Trump’s lawyers alleged in a 15-page filing violates the court’s ‘clear, straightforward, and unambiguous’ stay order.
“In this manner, the prosecutors seek to weaponize the Stay to spread political propaganda, knowing that President Trump would not fully respond because the Court relieved him of the burdens of litigation during the Stay,” they wrote. “Worse, the prosecutors have announced their intention to continue this partisan-driven misconduct indefinitely, effectively converting this Court’s docket into an arm of the Biden Campaign.”
New: Trump’s legal team seeks to hold special counsel Jack Smith in contempt for purportedly violating the court’s order staying proceedings in district court. https://t.co/ZOzysOjBvw pic.twitter.com/i4kDTet5jP
— Anna Bower (@AnnaBower) January 4, 2024
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