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Jack Smith likes to hassle Republicans. That’s what it amounts to because the Supreme Court has already turned over a decision he was a part of. Former Virginia Republican Gov. Robert McDonnell and his wife Maureen were at the receiving end of the prosecutor in 2016. They illegally received gifts and loans from a donor that were all reported and perfectly legal. Even Ruth Bader Ginsburg agreed with the turnover.
Smith tried to nail McDonnell
For “participating in a scheme to violate federal public corruption laws” in 2014 according to the DOJ. Two years later the Supreme Court easily overturned it.
The former governor said of the case, “I basically set up meetings for a businessman in Virginia. I didn’t even go to the meetings. Spoke well of his business, which of course I did for thousands of companies promoting Virginia jobs. And because it was a donor and had given gifts to us which were legal and reported, that was somehow a crime.”
Smith going down rabbit holes
Chief Justice John Roberts said Smith was pushing the definition.
“There is no doubt that this case is distasteful; it may be worse than that. But our concern is not with tawdry tales of Ferraris, Rolexes, and ball gowns. It is instead with the broader legal implications of the Government’s boundless interpretation of the federal bribery statute. Setting up a meeting, calling another public official, or hosting an event does not, standing alone, qualify as an ‘official act.’”
McDonnell spoke on Mark Levin’s program “Life, Liberty and Levin”. He said that Smith seems to want a win rather than being correct. “I think he doesn’t do an honest look at the law to see if the facts apply to the law.”
Constitutional scholar weighs in
Jonathan Turley spoke on Fox. He went through the material. Much of it is reduced to a haiku.
“Many of the things that the prosecutor is charging here [are] protected speech. The most jarring thing about this indictment is that it basically just accuses him of disinformation. And this reminds me of sort of the [McDonnell] complaint, where he took the Virginia governor, got a conviction, and then it was unanimously overturned by the Supreme Court. It is a bridge too far.”
With even the most left leaning Supreme Court Justices telling Smith he’s pushing the envelope you’d think he’d back down. Nope. Because when Trump Derangement Syndrome starts, Democrats can no longer see straight.
