With Donald Trump coming out victorious in the 2024 election, special counsel Jack Smith and the DOJ have already dismissed all federal charges and appeals targeting the incoming president. Of course, as RedState reported, Smith did it in the most petty way possible, not seeking to dismiss with prejudice and theoretically leaving the door open for a future Democratic administration to re-indict.
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Still, the odds of that seem extremely low. With Trump set to serve another four years, I can’t see a possible Democrat president in 2029 taking the political risk for what is already an irrelevant issue with voters.
That said, Smith is preparing one more surprise with the help of AG Merrick Garland. According to sources, a “report” detailing the supposed evidence against Trump will be released, and you can bet it’s going to be Christmas morning for MSNBC.
Multiple accounts that Smith is preparing a report and that Garland will release it publicly, all before the inauguration.
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) November 28, 2024
The report is expected to detail Smith’s findings on key cases involving Trump, including allegations of election subversion and mishandling of classified documents. Attorney General Merrick Garland is expected to publicly release the special counsel report.
“Historically, these special counsel reports are quite detailed,” CNN legal analyst Elie Honig said Tuesday morning in an interview with Jim Acosta. ” I think this will be Jack Smith’s last and best chance to tell his story in both cases. He’s already done that to some extent through his indictments and court filings, but this will be it — this will be the historical record.”
While the Jim Acostas and Rachel Maddows of the world are going to get really excited about this, I’m less concerned about the whole ordeal. Far from being the “historical record,” it will be the word of a man who served as a partisan apparatchik for an administration seeking to put its political opponent in jail to influence an election. Whatever he releases will just come across as the last shallow gasp of a failed special counsel.
To put it simply, no one cares about this anymore. If any of this mattered, Kamala Harris would have won the election. No doubt, Smith’s report will include lots of salacious nonsense meant to spoil Trump’s second inauguration, but it’s ultimately powerless. In that sense, I’m almost happy it’s being released. It’ll be entertaining to see Joy Reid and company whip themselves into a lather over something that will have zero impact on the incoming administration.
Lastly, I think Smith and Garland going this route only underscores how much reform is needed at the DOJ. By releasing a report on charges that were ultimately dropped, they are showing themselves to be the partisans everyone already knew they were. It’s like the Democrats doubling down on trans insanity post-election. All it does is underscore why they lost.
Trump can choose to respond however he wishes because, as I said, it doesn’t really matter. If it were my decision, though, I’d ignore it and let them seethe. The press wants a response that leads to a massive public debate in the same vein as the Mueller investigation. Letting their last desperate attempt die on the vine would only make them angrier.
