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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsEncouraging take about Jack Smith:
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People need to understand that Jack Smith wasn't brought in to start the Trump investigation ... He was brought in to bring it home.
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Encouraging take about Jack Smith: (Original Post)
tblue37
Mar 2023
OP
This is the way I've always seen it. Were I in Garland's position, I wouldn't have brought in . . .
Journeyman
Mar 2023
#3
Exactly. Garland knows details, knows the rump is guilty, but had to formalize it to distance it
Bernardo de La Paz
Mar 2023
#9
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)1. Predicting SC Smith will be person of the year!
FakeNoose
(32,748 posts)2. Twitter thread has another great Jack Smith meme 😀
Cha
(297,655 posts)6. Yeah, but to be current..
dt Devolved into a Traitor to the USA.. & the Leader of a Failed Coup to Overturn the US Government.
Just to name a couple of his biggest hits.
Journeyman
(15,038 posts)3. This is the way I've always seen it. Were I in Garland's position, I wouldn't have brought in . . .
a man of Smith's caliber to bear witness to what a doofus I'd been for almost two years. In baseball parlance, Smith was brought in as a closer, not a starting pitcher.
Captain Zero
(6,823 posts)4. If white house changes hands he's there to finish
Special Prosecutors are only done when THEY SAY they are done.
A gop victory in 2024 won't be able remove him.
Cha
(297,655 posts)5. TY, I Understood That.. Not
hard at all.
Silent3
(15,265 posts)7. In the, "Oh, God. We've actually got to do something about this, huh?" sense...
of bringing it home.
tanyev
(42,610 posts)8. The Closer.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,036 posts)9. Exactly. Garland knows details, knows the rump is guilty, but had to formalize it to distance it
This is my speculation, of course I don't read minds or remote view documents and computer screens in offices.
1) Smith took over long-running complex investigations. Fact.
2) Smith is no nonsense kinda guy. Fact.
3) Garland was pipped by (McConnell and) the rump who appointed three judges to Garland's rightful seat. Fact. Thus Garland is forced to add a layer between him and indictment. Garland must still decline to veto an indictment recommendation from Smith, but will simply rubber-stamp it, correctly. This will lower the temperature a little bit (not much) and we can all use the cumulative effect of many efforts to lower the temperature a little bit.
4) I'm sorry. All this manouevring is necessary for success and takes time.