Jack Smith Calls the Justice Dept. 'Corrupted' by Trump

Jack Smith Calls the Justice Dept. 'Corrupted' by Trump

The prosecutor wasn't able to make his case in court, but months later, he's bringing his arguments to the public in forceful and unrestrained ways.

Jack Smith Calls Out "Corrupted" Justice Department

The New York Times reports: Jack Smith, the special counsel who twice indicted President Trump, accused the Justice Department of having been “corrupted” by Trump loyalists he claimed were demolishing its credibility and seeking to undermine the rule of law. Mr. Smith’s remarks, made last month in a private discussion at the Cosmos Club in Washington, represented his sharpest criticism of the department since leaving his post early last year. Th…

Jack Smith calls out blatant corruption in Trump’s DOJ

When Donald Trump won the United States' 2024 presidential election, it marked a major turning point in then-special counsel Jack Smith's two federal cases against him: the election interference case and the Mar-a-Lago/classified documents case. Smith, citing the U.S. Department of Justice's (DOJ) longstanding policy against prosecuting a sitting president, asked Judge Tanya Chutkan to dismiss the election case — a request she granted "without p…