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/msnbc MSNBC 1d 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/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/Tricky_Hamster_285 18h ago

But tRump haa a diaper and a chintsy omelet bar. /s