Jack Smith’s Case Against Trump Appears to Be Falling Apart

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by Matt Margolis

Special Counsel Jack Smith’s efforts to imprison Donald Trump for mishandling classified documents have hit a few snags recently, and the latest snag is, indeed, a big one.

“Special Counsel Jack Smith could be blocked from using evidence against Donald Trump contained in grand jury investigation files, which were transferred to the former president’s Florida classified documents case this week, a former prosecutor has suggested,” reports Newsweek. “In 2023, a grand jury in Washington, D.C., heard evidence from witnesses—including Trump’s attorney, Evan Corcoran—while considering whether charges should be brought against the former president and others for hoarding classified documents. However, Trump and his co-accused were later indicted in Florida and, under federal rules, the grand jury files were transferred on Monday to Trump-appointed judge, Aileen Cannon’s court.”

According to former prosecutor Bill Shipley, the transfer of the case from D.C. to Florida gives Judge Cannon control over what evidence can be included—especially testimony that may have violated attorney-client privilege.

More from Newsweek:

On March 24, 2023, Corcoran was forced to testify before the classified documents grand jury in Washington D.C. It was his second time giving evidence.

Corcoran was called to give evidence because he wrote a letter that was sent to the Department of Justice in June 2022 that stated that there had been a “diligent search” for classified documents. Along with the letter, he sent the Department more than 30 documents with classified markings that were found on Trump property.

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Department of Justice Special Counsel Smith announced on Monday that the Washington, D.C., court had transferred the grand jury files to Cannon.

Trump is facing 40 federal charges over his handling of sensitive materials retrieved from his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, after leaving the White House in January 2021. He is accused of obstructing efforts by federal authorities to return them. The former president has pleaded not guilty to all charges.

Leftists have been routinely triggered by Judge Cannon’s rulings—probably because she’s not a rabid leftist like Judge Engoron, who literally ruled that Trump should pay a civil fine of nearly half a billion dollars for a non-crime with no victim. 

Jack Smith’s prosecution of Trump has been widely criticized as selective prosecution, especially in light of the release of the Hur report last month, which found that Biden “willfully retained and disclosed classified materials after his vice presidency when he was a private citizen,” and that his actions “present[ed] serious risks to national security.”

Despite Biden’s actions, former special counsel Robert Hur declined to prosecute Biden because he would present himself as an “elderly man with a poor memory” and it would be difficult to convince a jury he was guilty of a serious felony because to commit such a crime “requires a mental state of willfulness.” The report elaborated by pointing out that Biden couldn’t even remember when he was vice president and or when his son Beau died.

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Faster, please

Jerk Smith go Pound Sand

Someone pull Greg away from the window, nevermind, he cant fall far its just the window well.

What happened to the nuclear launch codes and Iranian attack plans? This whole case is nothing but smoke and mirrors without a hope of conviction, just trying to keep Trump off the campaign trail.

Yeah, the Democrats have trashed the justice system.

None of the cases against President Trump have any degree of merit. Both of smiths cases are falling by the wayside and the Big Fanny case in GA is essentially over. The only one left, the fat ass bragg case in NY may end up with a conviction but will be overturned on appeal. This case has been passed over by the previous AG, Vance, the DA prosecutor predecessor of fat ass bragg and even by fat ass bragg when he became DA for SDNY.

It wasn’t until the WH sent Michael Colangelo from the DOJ to the SDNY to develop what was a non case into a case because the inept fat ass bragg was incapable of prosecuting a jay walker. Hence the gag order keeping President Trump from exposing the WH coordination with the SDNY.

Trump appeals ruling that allowed DA Fani Willis to stay on Georgia election interference case

Former President Donald Trump and several of his co-defendants on Friday filed their appeal of the disqualification ruling that allowed Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to remain on the Georgia election interference case.

The motion from Trump and others to the Georgia Court of Appeals argues that Judge Scott McAfee “erred as a matter of law by not requiring dismissal and DA Willis’ disqualification.”

“This legal error requires the Court’s immediate review,” the 51-page filing states.

The appeal came from Trump and co-defendants including Michael Roman, Rudy Giuliani, Mark Meadows, and Jeffrey Clark as part of their ongoing effort to have the Fulton County indictment dismissed and Willis and her entire office removed from the case.

Nathan Wade, the lead prosecutor in the Fulton County election interference case, resigned as special prosecutor on March 15, hours after McAfee issued his ruling that either Willis or Wade must step aside from the case due to a “significant appearance of impropriety” stemming from a romantic relationship between the DA and the prosecutor.

A three-judge panel will now be randomly assigned to review the appeal application and determine whether or not to take it up. A staff attorney will also make a recommendation, but the panel has the ultimate say.

The court has 45 days to issue its decision. Only one of the three judges has to vote yes in order for them to take up the appeal.