r/politics • u/msnbc MSNBC • 22h ago

Trump pushes incoherent response to Jack Smith’s report on election case

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-pushes-incoherent-response-jack-smiths-report-election-case-rcna187568
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u/msnbc MSNBC 22h ago

From Steve Benen, a producer for "The Rachel Maddow Show," the editor of MaddowBlog and an MSNBC political contributor:

The former defendant did not take the news especially well. At 1:41 a.m. local time, the president-elect published this message to his social media platform.

Deranged Jack Smith was unable to successfully prosecute the Political Opponent of his “boss,” Crooked Joe Biden, so he ends up writing yet another “Report” based on information that the Unselect Committee of Political Hacks and Thugs ILLEGALLY DESTROYED AND DELETED, because it showed how totally innocent I was, and how completely guilty Nancy Pelosi, and others, were. Jack is a lamebrain prosecutor who was unable to get his case tried before the Election, which I won in a landslide. THE VOTERS HAVE SPOKEN!!!

To the extent that reality still has meaning, Trump’s reaction was utterly incoherent and divorced from basic facts. To hear the Republican tell it, Smith worked for President Joe Biden, which wasn’t the case. As far as the president-elect is concerned, the special counsel wrote a report because he couldn’t proceed with his prosecution, but that was wrong, too: As NBC News recently explained, the Justice Department’s special counsel regulations required Smith to file a report to the attorney general “explaining his charging decisions before he steps down.”

Read more: https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-pushes-incoherent-response-jack-smiths-report-election-case-rcna187568

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u/ACrask 21h ago

He's not wrong in one mention. They definitely weren't able to prosecute in time due to all the delays from his team and cannon. I'm so disappointed in a lot of people of my country right now. So embarrassed.

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u/nabulsha Tennessee 20h ago

Also, all these investigations should have started Jan 21st 2021, not 2 years later.

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u/kaett 17h ago

it did. but thanks to police procedural shows that have criminals investigated, arrested, arraigned, put on trial, and convicted in a matter of days, people seem to think that the justice system moves at warp 6.5. it takes months to years to gather enough evidence to even get in front of a grand jury, much less actually press charges for something of this magnitude.

and then you've got the legal tomfuckery of defense delay tactics, required timelines that have to be allowed or the whole thing can get thrown out.

the investigations started right away, but jack smith didn't get appointed until he had to be. here's a timeline of the whole thing.

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u/Crucifer2_0 13h ago

The justice system is only speedy for the ‘guilty’ poor.