RUNNING SCARED: Jack Smith steps down before Trump has a chance to FIRE him



Jack Smith’s cases investigating Trump’s attempts to challenge the 2020 election are falling apart — and now he’s stepping down from his position as special counsel before the president-elect takes office.

Mark Levin of “LevinTV” isn’t surprised.

“You know why? It’s simple. He’s an unconstitutional prosecutor. Donald Trump’s going to fire his ass. All the cases collapse, based on Department of Justice memos,” Levin says. “They collapse, these cases should never have been brought, the case in Florida was rightly thrown out.”

“That’s why they were in a rush to get these cases prosecuted. To get him in prison before the election, which also violated numerous Department of Justice rules,” he continues.


Now, Levin believes action against the people who sanctioned this needs to be taken.

“It’s also my position that the new attorney general needs to dig into this and find out who exactly was responsible for it,” he says, adding, “They did everything possible to affect the election and to destroy Donald Trump’s life.”

While the obsession with putting Trump behind bars was obvious from the start, Smith had been hyper-focused on Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election — which is a perfectly normal thing for a candidate to do.

“A candidate has every right to try and challenge an election, which means to overturn it. That’s exactly what’s going on in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania today at the behest of Chuck Schumer with their slip-and-fall lawyer Mark Elias,” Levin explains.

“They did the same thing in Minnesota to give Al Franken a senate seat to take out Norm Coleman. More than a decade ago, Al Gore challenged the election in court after court in Florida until the Supreme Court stopped it,” he continues.

“There’s simply nothing criminal about challenging it, about looking for more votes, about encouraging a state legislature to act, about encouraging a board of elections to act,” he says, adding, “This is the first time it’s been criminalized.”

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Special Counsel Jack Smith files revised indictment against Donald Trump to satisfy Supreme Court ruling on immunity



Special Counsel Jack Smith filed another indictment against former President Donald Trump after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against some parts justices said were covered by presidential immunity.

The revised indictment from a Washington, D.C., grand jury is a slimmer version of the previous indictment, with the same charges of federal election subversion but with fewer allegations about Trump's conduct.

'The new indictment tries to address the Supreme Court ruling.'

Smith cited the 6-3 Supreme Court ruling from Jan.1 that found Trump had "absolute immunity" for acts committed in his official capacity as president or as a candidate.

“The superseding indictment, which was presented to a new grand jury that had not previously heard evidence in this case, reflects the Government’s efforts to respect and implement the Supreme Court’s holdings and remand instructions in Trump v. United States,” read a statement from the special counsel’s office.

The new indictment lands with only 70 days left in the presidential campaign.

The new indictment tries to address the Supreme Court ruling while pressing on with the charges against Trump. In one example, the court documents accuse Trump of obstructing the Electoral College certification proceedings on Jan. 6, 2021, and specifically assert that he had no official role in those proceedings.

“The Defendant had no official responsibilities related to the certification proceeding, but he did have a personal interest as a candidate in being named the winner of the election,” the indictment said.

Trump has pleaded not guilty to the charges.

A Biden campaign adviser had lambasted the July ruling from the Supreme Court.

"Donald Trump snapped after he lost the 2020 election and encouraged a mob to overthrow the results of a free and fair election," read the statement. "Trump is already running for president as a convicted felon for the very same reason he sat idly by while the mob violently attacked the Capitol: he thinks he's above the law and is willing to do anything to gain and hold onto power for himself."

The spokesperson went on to claim that President Joe Biden would defeat Trump in November, but the president has since dropped out of the race.

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Biden staffers met with special counsel Jack Smith's aide ahead of Trump indictment, raising concerns about possible election interference: Report



Weeks prior to former President Donald Trump's indictment for allegedly handling documents much in the same way President Joe Biden is said to have done, elements of the Biden White House reportedly met with a top aide for special counsel Jack Smith — an aide who happens to have been one of the loudest voices in support of a raid on Mar-a-Lago.

The news of this curiously timed meeting has prompted additional concerns over whether the Biden administration and the Department of Justice might have colluded in an attempt to eliminate the Democratic president's top political rival from the running ahead of the 2024 election.

The New York Post reported that White House visitor logs indicate that Jay Bratt, the head of the DOJ's counterintelligence division who joined the special counsel team in November 2022, met on March 31, 2023, with Caroline Saba, deputy chief of staff for the White House counsel's office.

BlazeTV host Mark Levin highlighted that "Bratt is the senior DOJ official who insisted on securing a warrant and sending an FBI SWAT team to Mar-a-Lago" and "stands accused by Stanley Woodward, who represents Walt Nauta in the documents case, of extorting him."

Bratt has also fought against transparency concerning the probe into Trump, having strongly opposed the release of the affidavit used to obtain the warrant to search Trump's Florida resort.

An FBI agent at the Washington, D.C., field office joined Bratt and Saba at the 10 a.m. meeting.

Peter Carr, a spokesman for the special counsel, told the Post that Bratt was at the Biden White House for a "case-related interview."

The FBI declined to comment.

There is no publicly available transcript or other documentation concerning what was actually discussed during this meeting, noted Just the News.

Nine weeks after this meeting, Smith's office indicted Trump.

Although it was largely unknown at the time of the indictment that a top aide to the special counsel and a Biden staffer had touched base in advance, Republicans at the time nevertheless stressed that the DOJ had become weaponized against the Democratic president's opponents.

Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) said, "Biden is attacking his most likely 2024 opponent. ... He's using the justice system to pre-emptively steal the 2024 election. This is what's happening, plain and simple."

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) said, "No one should be in doubt of what's happening tonight. Joe Biden and his cronies are trying to take out their chief political opponent.

Biden responded to the criticism, claiming, "I have never once, not one single time, suggested to the Justice Department what they should do or not do relative to bringing a charge or not bringing a charge. ... I'm honest."

Bratt's March rendezvous at the White House was hardly his first.

The Post reported that Bratt met with Saba in November 2021 around the time of Trump's vexatious negotiations with the National Archives concerning the documents he retained after leaving office. Bratt also came to Biden's stomping grounds in September 2021 to meet with an adviser to the White House chief of staff's office, Katherine Reilly.

Mike Davis of the Article III Project indicated Bratt's visits might constitute violations of long-standing rules about inappropriate communications with White House staff, as detailed in a July 21, 2021, memo from Attorney General Merrick Garland.

Jonathan Turley, law professor at George Washington University, suggested Bratt's March meeting "raises obvious concerns about visits to the White House after [Bratt] began his work with the special counsel."

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, recently booked in Georgia over his alleged role in the election interference case, told the Post, "There is no legitimate purpose for a line [DOJ] guy to be meeting with the White House except if it's coordinated by the highest levels. ... What's happening is they have trashed every ethical rule that exists and they have created a state police. It is a Biden state prosecutor and a Biden state police."

Mark Levin said that U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, who is overseeing Trump's classified documents case, should order from the bench "that all records related to Bratt's meetings and discussions at the White House be preserved and provided to the court."

Levin further stressed that the "outrageous news" about Bratt's White House meetings "adds to the overwhelming case for a special counsel, as this not only creates the impression of a conflict of interest but a conflict of interest in fact. The Biden administration cannot be relied on to truthfully explain itself. The standard for appointing a special counsel — a qualified lawyer from outside the government — has been met, again!"

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Breaking: Trump says he expects to be indicted a third time



Former President Donald Trump said on Truth Social that he expected to be indicted by special counsel Jack Smith for alleged crimes related to the presidential election of 2020.

Trump issued a pre-emptive criticism against the expected indictments Tuesday, which would be the third set of indictments for the former president.

"I hear that Deranged Jack Smith, in order to interfere with the Presidential Election of 2024, will be putting out yet another Fake Indictment of your favorite President, me, at 5:00 P.M.," wrote Trump.

"Why didn't they do this 2.5 years ago? Why did they wait so long? Because they wanted to put right in the middle of my campaign! Prosecutorial Misconduct!" he added.

“A Nation In Decline!” Trump added in a second post.

In March, Trump was first indicted by a Manhattan grand jury over charges related to hush money paid to Stormy Daniels, an adult film actress who said she had an affair with then-candidate Trump. Trump has also been indicted for alleged misconduct related to the classified documents that were seized from his residence at Mar-a-Lago in Florida.

Trump had called on his supporters to demonstrate after the first indictments.

"Protest, take our nation back!" he wrote on Truth Social.

This is a developing story and will be updated with more information as it becomes available.

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