The former special counsel takes the hot seat next week before the Senate Judiciary Committee over his “abuse of authority” which included obtaining cell phone records of committee members.
It has to be NOW because if the Ds take the House and Senate, this will be memory holed. I’m thinking the polls are off again, and the Rs will prevail, but who counts the ballots is still a ‘issue’.
Julie, why would they not go after 50 underlings first, and then the big fish?
Aside from Jay Bratt, I'm not really sure who would be prosecuted under Smith. Sure, they were all dirtballs (there is still a DOJ referral for obstruction pending against Tom Windom) but Smith was the ringleader. False statements, conspiracy, contempt of court, obstruction, etc. plenty ripe for an indictment. Charges would also force the production of his records with WH and DOJ officials--I would love to see all his comms with Lisa Monaco!
Our country was saved when Trump was re-elected, however if the Democrat Socialist Communist Party wins control and the power they so crave it will be a long two years until the 2028 elections. Impeachment and more rampant corruption will take place. The fraud that this administration has uncovered will be totally ignored and only get worse. Every election is important but this midterm is the most important of all time! Jack Smith will also be swept under the rug.
I am following The Jack Smith story with high hopes of a prosecution and prison sentence. But Smith's politically motivated prosecution is the only the tip of the insurrectionist iceberg.
The administrations of both Obama and Biden orchestrated an ongoing insurrection to over throw the American constitutional republic and replace it with a totalitarian communist regime.
Lawless totalitarian thugs in the Obama and Biden United States Department of Justice, their FBI and their CIA operated as a political crime syndicate. The political thugs running the DOJ, the FBI and the CIA during these years were no different than Stalinist NKVD thugs that routinely arrested, imprisoned and murdered anyone that Stalin thought might, even remotely, oppose him. The treasonous anti-American Biden-Obama administration and its attempted insurrection stands as a warning to us all.
But the story is even bigger, much bigger than the corruption, criminality and totalitarianism of Biden-Obama years. First, the regime now intent on turning the American constitutional republic into a totalitarian communist state has a membership that extends far beyond Obama and Biden and their gang of insurrectionists. For instance, all of the people in the so called main stream media are committed to the Obama - Biden insurrection. These writers and talking heads in the media function as the propaganda agency for the ever-growing insurrectionists. Then there is the academy, our colleges and universities. Most of the professors and administrators directing operations on our campuses are operating re-education and indoctrination camps designed to reduce their "graduates" to WOKE co-operative communist automatons. And we cannot forget the globalist corporate management teams that are now openly threatening any employee who objects to the cultural and political transformation from a reason-based free society into the new totalitarian WOKE communist state. This regime working to over throw the traditional American constitutional republic has grown into a far reaching juggernaut. The American insurrection has now grown into an amalgamation of various interests, groups, ideologies. The American insurrection is now a multi-headed hydra eating traditional free American alive.
So, as we watch the Jack Smith prosecution move forward (or not), let us not lose site of the larger context of which it is apart.
Yes, Brent, you are correct--which is why recent developments in the grand conspiracy investigation ongoing in Florida are so encouraging. News that FBI employees involved in the MAL raid now face grand jury subpoenas--likely as witnesses not as targets--bolsters my hope here!
This is more evidence that the entire January 6 incident was a Reichstag Fire incident intended to purge Trump and his supporters. Jack Smith is just a low level operative. The leaders need found and punished. This was an attempted coup.
Correct, Robert. As I noted above, I would love to see Smith's comms with WH officials and DOJ higher-ups including Lisa Monaco. He is a full blown degenerate but also taking orders from others.
The disgraceful Jack(ass) Smith needs his day to defend himself for his contemptible actions while the Senate looks down upon him. I'm wondering if he'll take the Fifth. Actually, I don't think he can. But I have already prejudged that scum. He should either be sent to prison or to be placed in house arrest in Eswatini.
I doubt he'll take the Fifth before the Senate. If he does, they should immediately charge him with contempt. Hopefully they are angry enough that he obtained their cell phone data to act accordingly, Kevin!
Doubtful, unfortunately. Howell and Boasberg should already have been impeached but both are still on the DC bench overriding the executive branch every chance they get. I would love to see them at least hauled before a Senate committee to answer for the NDOs they signed for cell phone subpoenas but that's not going to happen. Republicans allowing these judges off the hook with little more than mean letters is the biggest failure of this Congress.
Isn’t it odd that Congress only gets up in arms when it’s their phones and emails being searched and cataloged by the government? The rest of us can pound sand, but don’t dare let a prosecutor read their texts and emails. That’s a bridge too far!!
For sure, Thomas! I said this too during the last disclosures--sure is funny to see some of the same senators who did nothing about the abusive searches of American citizens related to J6 caterwaul about their cell and email records being obtained by Jack Smith. Didn't Lindsey Graham propose some outrageous compensation for GOP lawmakers targeted by the Biden DOJ? I believe so.
I believe it was him. Regardless, it sure does feel like we live in Animal Farm sometimes. Sure, we’re all equal, but some of us are more equal than others.
I have been thinking that exact thought. When Jim Jordan was hyperventilating the other day on Fox about all of this I just looked at the TV and said, “Oh now you’re upset!” What about all of the victims of Jan 6??? Their lives were destroyed and our country will never be the same after what the democrats did that day!
I agree. They’ve been bloviating for the last year. It comes and goes in between talk of the Save America Act or explaining why they can’t get the judiciary under control. Oh yeah, or the fact that there’s all this fraud, but they can’t cut any of the funding to those programs. They’re just a waste of air.
Thank you Julie- yes the actions by this crew are so absurd and criminal- outrageous - too often we have these senate hearings - slap down and no accountability. I hope these people are removed from ever doing this again and are held accountable. Our Courts have turned into third world operators.
I hope so, too, Christina--but as I just noted above, the failure to hold the judges responsible will embolden any Dem DOJ and DC bench to do this all over again. It is extremely frustrating to watch Republican lawmakers expose the corruption of DC judges and do nothing about it. As you know, I've been screaming about this for years. They haven't even cut a single penny or clerkship or position. Inexcusable.
As always, thanks for your excellent work on exposing this criminal for the vile crimes he committed. Let’s hope there is finally justice coming for Smith.
Thanks for this update, Julie. All I can say if "from your lips to God's ears." Because some one, sometime, must be held accountable for the bastardization of the enormous power of the federal law enforcement. And I can't think of a more spectacular example to be held accountable than that execrable creature named Jack Smith!
Me either, Karlan, he's always been at the top of my list after watching what he and his thugs did in both cases--especially in Florida to Judge Cannon. Fingers crossed.
People are understandably skeptical, David, and I totally understand why. I am hoping this is part of the grand conspiracy case and not just a single false statement charge--but anything is better than nothing at this point!
I want Jack Smith answering questions with the records in front of him. He wielded the government’s power to investigate, subpoena, and prosecute. He owes the public an accounting just as exacting as the one he demanded from his targets. Secret demands for lawmakers’ records deserve scrutiny that reaches the prosecutors who sought them and the judges who approved them. Put every claimed justification under the microscope. If the evidence establishes criminal misconduct, prosecute it. I’m tired of accountability ending at the prosecutor’s office door. A hearing that produces fiery clips and no consequences for proven abuse is Washington protecting itself again.
Yep, we need results and outcomes, Richard. While the disclosures by Congress are useful in bolstering what we already know about Smith and the Biden DOJ, it's pointless without laws to rectify the abuse and accountability for those responsible.
Plenty of Republican former prosecutors serve on that committee, and plenty of perjury traps await Jack Smith, if any of them have the testicular fortitude.
Julie I am just wondering are the judges that participated in this lawlessness going to suffer and consequences? 😡 Seems to me Jim Jordan needs to remove a few federal judges or this will continue to happen!!
Unfortunately, I doubt it at this stage of the game. Republicans ran out the clock once again--Democrats take the House and any hope of impeachment is gone forever. What a wasted opportunity, and honestly something I did not see coming. I thought Republicans would have the balls to actually expose these judges and impeach at least one (Howell on the top of the list) but here we are, empty handed once again. Infuriating.
Since the Obama administration and certainly in the last decade, the Democratic Party has increasingly ignored, if not become hostile to, the US Constitution. And with the steady Marxist revolutionary takeover of the party by the Democratic Socialists of America beginning roughly in 2024 the Democrats, at least those running for office, have become a full-blown enemy fifth column. Thus in the upcoming midterms, preserving the Republican majority in Congress is not just preventing a ball and chain from being attached to Trump's policies, or the squelching of inquires into massive Democrat wrongdoing, or the wholesale shutting down of the executve with one impeachment after another, but an existential issue for the United States. Yet there seems to be a lack of urgency in the Republican campaign cadre.
Lack of urgency, yes Peter, and lack of balls. Going up against a federal judge--especially the most powerful chief judge in the land--is not easy but this is what political power should entail. The base is understandably frustrated by Congress' cravenness on this score and I am with them.
There must be accountability!
It has to be NOW because if the Ds take the House and Senate, this will be memory holed. I’m thinking the polls are off again, and the Rs will prevail, but who counts the ballots is still a ‘issue’.
Julie, why would they not go after 50 underlings first, and then the big fish?
Aside from Jay Bratt, I'm not really sure who would be prosecuted under Smith. Sure, they were all dirtballs (there is still a DOJ referral for obstruction pending against Tom Windom) but Smith was the ringleader. False statements, conspiracy, contempt of court, obstruction, etc. plenty ripe for an indictment. Charges would also force the production of his records with WH and DOJ officials--I would love to see all his comms with Lisa Monaco!
Thank you, Julie. You keep these important legal matters at the top of my feed and provide such clarity and understanding. I pray for you every day.
09/25/26: Indictment, please.
I agree. And the DOJ needs to hit the gas pedal on this before Dems take over and cut funding and start their own rounds of hearings...
It would be an endless parade of show trials
Our country was saved when Trump was re-elected, however if the Democrat Socialist Communist Party wins control and the power they so crave it will be a long two years until the 2028 elections. Impeachment and more rampant corruption will take place. The fraud that this administration has uncovered will be totally ignored and only get worse. Every election is important but this midterm is the most important of all time! Jack Smith will also be swept under the rug.
Totally agree! Time is of the essence and quickly ticking away.
I am following The Jack Smith story with high hopes of a prosecution and prison sentence. But Smith's politically motivated prosecution is the only the tip of the insurrectionist iceberg.
The administrations of both Obama and Biden orchestrated an ongoing insurrection to over throw the American constitutional republic and replace it with a totalitarian communist regime.
Lawless totalitarian thugs in the Obama and Biden United States Department of Justice, their FBI and their CIA operated as a political crime syndicate. The political thugs running the DOJ, the FBI and the CIA during these years were no different than Stalinist NKVD thugs that routinely arrested, imprisoned and murdered anyone that Stalin thought might, even remotely, oppose him. The treasonous anti-American Biden-Obama administration and its attempted insurrection stands as a warning to us all.
But the story is even bigger, much bigger than the corruption, criminality and totalitarianism of Biden-Obama years. First, the regime now intent on turning the American constitutional republic into a totalitarian communist state has a membership that extends far beyond Obama and Biden and their gang of insurrectionists. For instance, all of the people in the so called main stream media are committed to the Obama - Biden insurrection. These writers and talking heads in the media function as the propaganda agency for the ever-growing insurrectionists. Then there is the academy, our colleges and universities. Most of the professors and administrators directing operations on our campuses are operating re-education and indoctrination camps designed to reduce their "graduates" to WOKE co-operative communist automatons. And we cannot forget the globalist corporate management teams that are now openly threatening any employee who objects to the cultural and political transformation from a reason-based free society into the new totalitarian WOKE communist state. This regime working to over throw the traditional American constitutional republic has grown into a far reaching juggernaut. The American insurrection has now grown into an amalgamation of various interests, groups, ideologies. The American insurrection is now a multi-headed hydra eating traditional free American alive.
So, as we watch the Jack Smith prosecution move forward (or not), let us not lose site of the larger context of which it is apart.
Yes, Brent, you are correct--which is why recent developments in the grand conspiracy investigation ongoing in Florida are so encouraging. News that FBI employees involved in the MAL raid now face grand jury subpoenas--likely as witnesses not as targets--bolsters my hope here!
This is more evidence that the entire January 6 incident was a Reichstag Fire incident intended to purge Trump and his supporters. Jack Smith is just a low level operative. The leaders need found and punished. This was an attempted coup.
Correct, Robert. As I noted above, I would love to see Smith's comms with WH officials and DOJ higher-ups including Lisa Monaco. He is a full blown degenerate but also taking orders from others.
The disgraceful Jack(ass) Smith needs his day to defend himself for his contemptible actions while the Senate looks down upon him. I'm wondering if he'll take the Fifth. Actually, I don't think he can. But I have already prejudged that scum. He should either be sent to prison or to be placed in house arrest in Eswatini.
Gitmo
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I doubt he'll take the Fifth before the Senate. If he does, they should immediately charge him with contempt. Hopefully they are angry enough that he obtained their cell phone data to act accordingly, Kevin!
Is that any possibility that some of the judges can be pulled into this?
Doubtful, unfortunately. Howell and Boasberg should already have been impeached but both are still on the DC bench overriding the executive branch every chance they get. I would love to see them at least hauled before a Senate committee to answer for the NDOs they signed for cell phone subpoenas but that's not going to happen. Republicans allowing these judges off the hook with little more than mean letters is the biggest failure of this Congress.
Isn’t it odd that Congress only gets up in arms when it’s their phones and emails being searched and cataloged by the government? The rest of us can pound sand, but don’t dare let a prosecutor read their texts and emails. That’s a bridge too far!!
For sure, Thomas! I said this too during the last disclosures--sure is funny to see some of the same senators who did nothing about the abusive searches of American citizens related to J6 caterwaul about their cell and email records being obtained by Jack Smith. Didn't Lindsey Graham propose some outrageous compensation for GOP lawmakers targeted by the Biden DOJ? I believe so.
I believe it was him. Regardless, it sure does feel like we live in Animal Farm sometimes. Sure, we’re all equal, but some of us are more equal than others.
I have been thinking that exact thought. When Jim Jordan was hyperventilating the other day on Fox about all of this I just looked at the TV and said, “Oh now you’re upset!” What about all of the victims of Jan 6??? Their lives were destroyed and our country will never be the same after what the democrats did that day!
I agree. They’ve been bloviating for the last year. It comes and goes in between talk of the Save America Act or explaining why they can’t get the judiciary under control. Oh yeah, or the fact that there’s all this fraud, but they can’t cut any of the funding to those programs. They’re just a waste of air.
Thank you Julie- yes the actions by this crew are so absurd and criminal- outrageous - too often we have these senate hearings - slap down and no accountability. I hope these people are removed from ever doing this again and are held accountable. Our Courts have turned into third world operators.
I hope so, too, Christina--but as I just noted above, the failure to hold the judges responsible will embolden any Dem DOJ and DC bench to do this all over again. It is extremely frustrating to watch Republican lawmakers expose the corruption of DC judges and do nothing about it. As you know, I've been screaming about this for years. They haven't even cut a single penny or clerkship or position. Inexcusable.
As always, thanks for your excellent work on exposing this criminal for the vile crimes he committed. Let’s hope there is finally justice coming for Smith.
And thank you, Kerry, for your support! I hope so too :)
Thanks for this update, Julie. All I can say if "from your lips to God's ears." Because some one, sometime, must be held accountable for the bastardization of the enormous power of the federal law enforcement. And I can't think of a more spectacular example to be held accountable than that execrable creature named Jack Smith!
Me either, Karlan, he's always been at the top of my list after watching what he and his thugs did in both cases--especially in Florida to Judge Cannon. Fingers crossed.
Great as always. Though Lindsey Graham is dead.
Yes OMG I can't believe I wrote that. I actually forgot. Just edited, thanks!
Prepare to hear [ on the advice of my attorney ] over and over ad nauseum.
It will still be good optics for our side, I believe. His arrogance and sense of entitlement really shines though for all to see!
Don’t hold your breath.
People are understandably skeptical, David, and I totally understand why. I am hoping this is part of the grand conspiracy case and not just a single false statement charge--but anything is better than nothing at this point!
I want Jack Smith answering questions with the records in front of him. He wielded the government’s power to investigate, subpoena, and prosecute. He owes the public an accounting just as exacting as the one he demanded from his targets. Secret demands for lawmakers’ records deserve scrutiny that reaches the prosecutors who sought them and the judges who approved them. Put every claimed justification under the microscope. If the evidence establishes criminal misconduct, prosecute it. I’m tired of accountability ending at the prosecutor’s office door. A hearing that produces fiery clips and no consequences for proven abuse is Washington protecting itself again.
Yep, we need results and outcomes, Richard. While the disclosures by Congress are useful in bolstering what we already know about Smith and the Biden DOJ, it's pointless without laws to rectify the abuse and accountability for those responsible.
Plenty of Republican former prosecutors serve on that committee, and plenty of perjury traps await Jack Smith, if any of them have the testicular fortitude.
Julie I am just wondering are the judges that participated in this lawlessness going to suffer and consequences? 😡 Seems to me Jim Jordan needs to remove a few federal judges or this will continue to happen!!
Unfortunately, I doubt it at this stage of the game. Republicans ran out the clock once again--Democrats take the House and any hope of impeachment is gone forever. What a wasted opportunity, and honestly something I did not see coming. I thought Republicans would have the balls to actually expose these judges and impeach at least one (Howell on the top of the list) but here we are, empty handed once again. Infuriating.
Since the Obama administration and certainly in the last decade, the Democratic Party has increasingly ignored, if not become hostile to, the US Constitution. And with the steady Marxist revolutionary takeover of the party by the Democratic Socialists of America beginning roughly in 2024 the Democrats, at least those running for office, have become a full-blown enemy fifth column. Thus in the upcoming midterms, preserving the Republican majority in Congress is not just preventing a ball and chain from being attached to Trump's policies, or the squelching of inquires into massive Democrat wrongdoing, or the wholesale shutting down of the executve with one impeachment after another, but an existential issue for the United States. Yet there seems to be a lack of urgency in the Republican campaign cadre.
Lack of urgency, yes Peter, and lack of balls. Going up against a federal judge--especially the most powerful chief judge in the land--is not easy but this is what political power should entail. The base is understandably frustrated by Congress' cravenness on this score and I am with them.