Jack Smith Conversation with Andrew Weissmann on the State of the United States

[ancianita]

If we ever again win, Smith needs to be our next AG.

Start 6:20

The whole talk is informative and good. But imo, the most important part starts 1:09:23

[rampartd]

1. the mar a lago documents are, by testimony of patel, declassified.

smith must release them and his report before i'll accept him as nxt ag. (the next ag and several more are going to be republican partisans, thanks mostly to the failure of smith's most important prosecutions.)

1. the content of the files was not in question, merely their classification. months were spent by that special master and rumps lawyers security clearances and such. and still we know nothing.

2. illene cannon was so obviously in the bag . why no writ of mandamus ?

3 release the report. if smith does not have a cya copy, i doubt his civil service cred. (that is probably why biden, pence, and bolton had classified stuff. they should have been tried for it. trump was selling it and should be imprisoned.)

[ancianita]

2. Why don't you finish watching from 36:00 forward before you insist that Jack Smith do what's not within his power to do.

I doubt you've even seen the whole thing. I posted it first, and even I'm not finished watching it.

So your claim about what Smith has to do before you support his appointment isn't logical or fair, nor have you even given Jack Smith a complete listen.

[rampartd]

3. not wiithn his power to do?

lets see what trump is about to do to smith, i would not have thought any of this to be within trump's power either.

IF we ever appoint an ag again, she will need to put most of this administration in jail., and quickly, with NO help from the supreme court. (saying it that way makes me sound as bad as trump himself. so be it. i know if there is a hell i'll meet him there.)_

i am very glad that a center for studying this authoritarian playbook exists. thank you for posting

[ancianita]

4. Nope. He had no control over the documents case evidence once trump was elected.

He DID file a report to the AG on the DC fraud case.

He DID file a report after Cannon dismissed his classified documents case in FL.

Even after he appealed her ruling, the case was dropped as soon as trump won the election because a president cannot be indicted.

With the case fully closed, the boxes of documents and materials that the FBI had seized in August 2022 were returned to Donald Trump by the Justice Department.

Special Counsel Report:
Jack Smith submitted a final, two-volume report on his investigations to the Attorney General.
Volume One, concerning election interference, was publicly released, but
U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon ordered that Volume Two, which detailed the findings of the classified documents probe, should not be publicly released or even shown to Congress, citing concerns about potentially prejudicing the rights of the former co-defendants (before their charges were also dropped).

Trump has the Smith team's evidence boxes. So now he'll weaponize that evidence and try to claim it was fraudulently obtained and that Smith as a lawyer is a crook.

The current AG can bring an investigation to a grand jury and it could go for an indictment against Smith, but it would also be dismissed in the DC court on the facts and the law and the "process." We've already read that the federal courts have already found malicious prosecution charges credible, and this would just add to their ongoing knowledge of how bad the Bondi DOJ is at pursuing justice, and how good the Bondi DOJ is at pursuing trump's malicious goals.