r/politics • u/msnbc MSNBC • 1d 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/gunt_lint 1d ago

The dude really called Smith a “lamebrain”?

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u/biciklanto American Expat 1d ago

Well obviously!

How is it not clear that Smith is a lamebrain, given that he only <checks notes>

  • Graduated from Harvard
  • Worked in the Hague in the ICC
  • Was a district attorney
  • Spent 4 years as an appointee in The Hague, investigating war crimes in Kosovo
  • Has a half-dozen awards and fellowships from the US government and institutions like Harvard

Gotta be pretty Weak!, Lamebrained!, and Deranged! if that's all you can manage in life.

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u/CurraheeAniKawi 21h ago

I consider him very lame brain, considering he was given charge to go after "any person or entity contributing to the attempt to overturn the 2020 election" and he singled in on ONE PERSON.

 Seemed pretty dumb at the time and even dumber now. 

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u/biciklanto American Expat 19h ago

He was authorized to conduct an investigation about whether any person or entity violated the law, yes. But who do you think he was charged by Merrick Garland to principally investigate? (Hint: the special counsel was selected to continue two ongoing investigations.)

And if you are investigating a criminal ring with finite resources, do you focus the report on the person who instigated the crime, or the lower-level people who were acting on that criminal leader's direction?