This sounds like a bad country song, only it’s merely a national nightmare that won’t go away.
At least this villain looks like a villain you could pick out of any crowd.
January 6 Special Counsel Jack Smith, he who, as a private attorney, was appointed and anointed by a weaponized Biden Justice Department without a congressional mandate or reason for being other than to torpedo a former President of the United States.
From the Texas amicus brief filing:
“The Biden-Harris Administration’s appointment of Jack Smith was blatantly unconstitutional,” said Attorney General Paxton. “DOJ, without any authority, spent more than $30 million to hire a private individual to harass the former President by weaponizing partisan lawfare against him. This erodes the rule of law that distinguishes the United States from third-world, totalitarian regimes.”
The brief explains: “By any measure, it is extraordinary to suppose that Congress empowered the Attorney General to appoint a private attorney to lead (rather than simply assist) a significant multi-district investigation and prosecution on behalf of the United States. It is even more extraordinary to suppose that Congress would allow the Attorney General to do this for one of the most high-profile and expensive prosecutions imaginable: The unprecedented prosecution of a former President of the United States. Because the claimed power is extraordinary, Congress must speak clearly before courts can conclude that the Attorney General is authorized to wield it.”
The same bastion of justice who received a ‘gift’ of pro bono legal work before being forced to resign from his Special Counsel position.
Jack Smith, the special counsel who brought two criminal cases against President Donald Trump, received $140,000 in pro bono legal services from a prominent Washington law firm before he resigned last month.
Covington & Burling provided the legal representation, according to a disclosure POLITICO obtained that Smith submitted Jan. 10 in connection with his departure from the Justice Department.
A spokesperson for Covington declined comment. Two of the Covington lawyers representing Smith, Peter Koski and Lanny Breuer, did not respond to messages seeking comment.
It’s not clear precisely why Smith sought outside legal advice, but Trump repeatedly railed against Smith and his team, vowing to fire them and sometimes appearing to call for them to be criminally prosecuted.
The same pompous, underhanded, conniving, villainous Jack Smith, who only three weeks ago was still sounding the alarm about threats to the rule of law and democracy being under attack, even as appreciative progressive media and audiences swooned.
The federal prosecutor who built two criminal cases against President Trump is sounding the alarm about dire threats to the legal system.
In his first public remarks since leaving the Justice Department, former special counsel Jack Smith said he’s sad and angry about the dismissals of career public servants and the loss of credibility the DOJ has suffered this year.
“My career has been about the rule of law and I believe that today it is under attack like in no other period in our lifetimes,” Smith told an audience of students, professors and members of the public at George Mason University last week.
No national media appeared to be present for Smith’s lecture but NPR later exclusively obtained a recording of the Sept. 16 event from an attendee.
…At the start of his remarks, Smith said he would not discuss politics, and he never referred to Trump by name. Instead, he delivered a call to defend the rule of law, punctuated by recent examples of its erosion.
MY CAREER HAS BEEN ABOUT THE RULE OF LAW AND I HAZ THE #SADZ
Said the paragon, the martyr, the soldier for democracy.
Excuse me? What was that?
There’s ‘breaking Jack Smith news’?
Gracious. Doesn’t sound very letter of the law paragon-y to me.
This sounds downright underhanded and low rent. The KGB would be proud.
Former Special Counsel Jack Smith was allegedly tracking the private communications and phone calls of nearly a dozen Republican Senators as part of his investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riots, Fox News Digital has learned.
A document, reviewed by Fox News Digital, revealed that Smith and his “Arctic Frost” team investigating Jan. 6 were allegedly tracking the phone calls of GOP Sens. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, Josh Hawley of Missouri, Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming, Bill Hagerty of Tennessee, Dan Sullivan of Alaska, Tommy Tuberville of Alabama and GOP Rep. Mike Kelly of Pennsylvania.
Corrupt and odious.
This document shows the Biden FBI spied on 8 of my Republican Senate colleagues during its Arctic Frost investigation into “election conspiracy” Arctic Frost later became Jack Smith’s elector case against Trump
BIDEN FBI WEAPONIZATION = WORSE THAN WATERGATE pic.twitter.com/V2JyiVlX48
— Chuck Grassley (@ChuckGrassley) October 6, 2025
Senator Bill Hagerty is hot under the collar. He points out that some of the folks named with him as subjects were on the 2016 Trump transition team and investigated by the Obama DoJ, so this is the second time the FBI has come after them. And, once again, every last victim of this underhanded, weaponized surveillance was a Republican and a sitting United States senator.
All of them.
Jack Smith tracked my private communications and those of my colleagues during his witch hunt to investigate @POTUS.
This is exactly the type of political weaponization of the federal government under Presidents Obama and Biden that Republicans and President Trump have been… pic.twitter.com/hzGtXnjngV
— Senator Bill Hagerty (@SenatorHagerty) October 6, 2025
I’d say ‘unbelievable,’ but there’s nothing about the Biden administration’s illegal overreach and unconstitutional targeting of opponents that is beyond imagining anymore. From grandmothers to senators, you didn’t even have to get in their way for them to come after you. They only had to think you might or catch a glimpse of you on the periphery of an issue to kick in the Stasi.
‘Corruption’ is too tame a word.
“It should shock every American.”
Senator Ron Johnson calls out “major corruption” as he responds to accusations that Jack Smith tracked private calls, communications of nearly a dozen Republican senators. pic.twitter.com/EhRiDKkmYd
— Fox News (@FoxNews) October 6, 2025
This is an abomination. I was just briefed by @FBIDDBongino about this appalling weaponization of the FBI under Jack Smith. I will not let it stand. https://t.co/VtnGfjDlZe
— Sen. Marsha Blackburn (@MarshaBlackburn) October 6, 2025
I hope Smith has more friends in high places willing to do him pro bono favors, because for all his clandestine, thief-in-the-night actions, the Autopen did not care enough for Smith to include him in the pardon frenzy.
Among the flurry of last-minute pardons issued by Joe Biden in the final moments of his presidency Monday, a group of names was conspicuously absent: prosecutors and judges who have sought to apply the law to Donald Trump.
Trump has frequently mused about seeking revenge on prosecutors like special counsel Jack Smith, who led the two federal criminal cases against Trump, and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who brought the New York hush money case that ended in Trump’s conviction. Trump has amplified calls for Smith to be thrown in prison and even said he should be “thrown out of the country.” Trump has similarly said “there is a case to be made” that Bragg should be “prosecuted.”
Neither was named by Biden on Monday as the recipient of a pardon, even as the outgoing president moved to protect other prominent officials who have sparked Trump’s ire.
And this opens up even more questions.
First, we learned that the Biden administration tracked Republicans, including myself, on a TSA watch list called “Quiet Skies.”
Now, we learn they had Jack Smith surveil the communications of at least half a dozen Republican Senators.
How far does this Orwellian surveillance…
— Abe Hamadeh (@AbrahamHamadeh) October 6, 2025
How far does this go?
Smith and Garland perpetrated a $50M scam investigation not just to target Trump, but to use that as an excuse to do deep, unconstitutional dives into the lives and private information of every Republican on the Hill who could or would possibly stand in their way.
And to find that ham sandwich to take them out with, too.
How terrifying.
This was supposed to be the United States of America.
I don’t ever want to hear one of these frauds begin to sputter about ‘defending democracy as we know it’ ever, EVER again.
Because they’ve damn near destroyed it.
If we thought our job in pushing back against the Academia/media/Democrat censorship complex was over with the election, think again. This is going to be a long fight. Ed, David, John, and I are here for it.
COME AT US, BROS!
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