Jack Smith

New York Times columnist and supposed conservative half of PBS News Hour’s Friday Brooks and Capehart segment was dismayed that President-elect Donald Trump’s attorney general nominee, Pam Bondi, will supposedly help him take a “blowtorch to the neutral institutions of justice.”

The blog criticizes Jack Smith's actions in a legal case involving Donald Trump, arguing his conduct is overtly partisan and unethical. Elie Honig, a CNN analyst, condemns Smith for manipulating legal procedures and misusing grand jury testimony, violating Department of Justice (DOJ) principles meant to prevent actions affecting elections. Such acts are compared to James Comey's controversial…

CNN’s Chris Wallace took his 1960 election-related book tour to CBS and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Thursday, where he lamented that the “crazy” Supreme Court ruling on presidential immunity has made Special Counsel Jack Smith’s life more difficult and sarcastically claimed it was “totally coincidental” that it was a 6-3 ruling along partisan lines with three Trump…

The Politico Playbook team of Eugene Daniels and Rachael "Impeachmas" Bade was so excited about this newly unsealed Jack…

On Morning Joe, Jonathan Lemire and Katty Kay claim that Jack Smith's new filing in his case against Donald Trump does NOT constitute an October Surprise.

MSNBC’s Joy Reid took a break from covering former President Donald Trump’s hush money case in New York on the Wednesday installment of The ReidOut’s to discuss his classified documents case and the news that Judge Aileen Cannon has postponed the trial indefinitely while she considers all the pre-trial motions and other issues related to the case. Reid responded by putting on her…

The folks over at ABC World News Tonight appear to be vexed and frustrated with the pace of the Trump documents trial, and are beginning to voice their frustrations over it. Worse, they are echoing what seem to be Biden talking points in the process.

CNN's legal analyst Elie Honig claims Jack Smith in violation of DOJ election policy on timing of cases. 

On CNN's State of the Union, Jake Tapper is skeptical that if Donald Trump were impeached by the House for ordering Seal Team Six to assassinate a political rival, a sufficient number of Republican Senators would vote to convict him.

On Jonathan Capehart's MSNBC show, MSNBC regular Dave Aronberg, the state attorney for Palm Beach County, Florida, admits that special prosecutor Jack Smith wanted the Supreme Court to rule on Donald Trump's claim of presidential immunity prior to the election, but didn't dare say that in his brief to the Court because he "did not want to be perceived as being political. He didn't want to…

CNN's legal analyst Elie Honig asserts that Jack Smith's desperation for a speedy J6 trial of Donald Trump is to obtain a conviction before the 2024 election for political reasons.

On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough falsely accuses Donald Trump of threatening to "institutionalize" special counsel Jack Smith and other DoJ officials.

Even though the various legal cases against Donald Trump are taking place in the obviously partisan environment of a presidential election, an examination of ABC, CBS and NBC evening news coverage finds the networks rarely identified even elected Democratic prosecutors as “Democrats.”

On Morning Joe, after Susan Glasser of The New Yorker says that "because of Trump,"we're hurdling toward an unprecedented crisis." Joe Scarborough says of respect of the FBI having shot to death a gun-wielding man who had made explicit assassination threats; "because of Donald Trump, you know, you could make the argument, he's dead. You can make the argument that he is dead because of Donald…