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Donald Trump is on a roll: Just two days after he dodged a near-fatal bullet, a federal judge threw out special counsel Jack Smith’s classified-documents case against him.
Indeed, US District Judge Aileen Cannon effectively tossed Smith himself, ruling that his appointment was unconstitutional.
That doesn’t immediately remove Smith from his other Trump case, alleging the ex-prez plotted to overthrow the 2020 election, but the Supreme Court recently put that one in deep doubt, too — a ruling that could also derail Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg’s victory in New York state courts.
Democrats’ multipronged, utterly cynical “lawfare” drive effort to derail Trump before Election Day is (rightly) failing as badly as Thomas Crooks’ bullets.
Maybe its time to honor President Biden’s call for unity by dropping the whole dirty lawfare campaign?
Cannon found Smith had no legal authority to prosecute Trump in the documents case; it was up to Congress to appoint “constitutional officers” and approve spending for such a prosecution: “That role cannot be usurped by the executive branch or diffused elsewhere.”
She didn’t even get into the “selective prosecution” issue, namely how President Biden, Hillary Clinton and others have skated despite similar document abuses.
Look: Polls of swing-state voters already show that the “threat to democracy” issue hurts Biden worse than Trump, significantly because of these persecution/prosecutions.
House Speaker Mike Johnson has it right: “As we work to unify this country . . . we must also work to end the lawfare and political witch hunts that have unfairly targeted President Trump and destroyed the American people’s faith in our system of justice.”
Focus on trying to beat Trump in the voting booth, not the courts.
Joe got the spirit right in his Monday night remarks: Settle our differences with the “battle box.”