Clinton ally Jack Smith has a modest proposal.
Special Counsel Jack Smith proposed to begin former President Donald Trump’s trial in January 2024 for the charges he’s facing in relation to the events of Jan. 6, 2021.
“The Government proposes that trial begin on January 2, 2024, and estimates that its case in chief will take no longer than four to six weeks,” the filing on Thursday states.
Remember when Hillary Clinton’s FBI and DOJ allies were worried about election interference?
Forget an October surprise. Jack Smith, operating with the sanction of Attorney General Merrick Garland and the Biden administration, would like the election to take place under the shadow of an upcoming trial, and have Election Day be the opening day to a trial.
As Politico notes, “That aggressive timeline would put the weighty criminal trial first on Trump’s crowded calendar of criminal proceedings and guarantee an extensive airing of the grave allegations against him just before Republican primary voters head to the polls.”
Prosecutors say the abbreviated timeline is rooted in the extraordinary public interest in seeing this case resolved.
“It is difficult to imagine a public interest stronger than the one in this case,” assistant special counsel Molly Gaston wrote in a court document filed Thursday, “in which the defendant — the former President of the United States — is charged with three criminal conspiracies intended to undermine the federal government, obstruct the certification of the 2020 presidential election, and disenfranchise voters.”
The interest here isn’t public, it’s very much private.
Smith’s team sharply rejected Lauro’s characterization of the evidence in their eight-page filing, saying it misconstrues how much preparation Trump will need to be ready for trial. Significant swaths of prosecutors’ evidence have been aired by the House Jan. 6 select committee, they note.
So Democrat proceedings and a Democrat prosecutor will be trying a political candidate to overshadow an election.
When did we turn into a banana republic?