Special counsel Jack Smith on Monday filed motions to drop all federal charges against President-elect Donald Trump regarding his mishandling of classified documents and his effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election in the lead-up to the deadly Jan. 6 attack on the U.S Capitol. The Morning Joe panel discusses.
For special counsel Jack Smith and his prosecutorial team, Donald Trump’s election victory meant one thing: They would have little choice but to wrap up their ongoing criminal cases against the Republican president-elect. It wasn’t because they lacked evidence against the defendant, it was because the Justice Department has a long-standing policy that says a sitting president can’t be prosecuted.
Isn’t that tantamount to an admission that this was just politicized lawfare from the beginning?” In other words, the Utah Republican expected the public to believe that Smith was pursuing cases against Trump before the election; the special counsel took steps to drop the charges after the election; and this sequence necessary suggests the prosecutor’s efforts were politically motivated. To be sure, I’m not a mind reader.
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