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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums· 1m Trump is now calling on Pam Bondi to prosecute Jack Smith.
most of us knew it would come to this once Smith testified in public.
Ron Filipkowski
@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
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Trump is now calling on Pam Bondi to prosecute Jack Smith.
Trump is now calling on Pam Bondi to prosecute Jack Smith.
— Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) 2026-01-22T17:57:54.428Z
Ocelot II
(129,435 posts)But whatever crimes they think Smith committed would have occurred more than five years ago, so any federal statutes of limitations have run out. He stepped down as Special Counsel on January 10, 2025. They missed it by 12 days.
Of course, they could always try to bust him for "lying" to Congress.
Johonny
(25,618 posts)In a real court Jack Smith can't be bullied and lied about by house members. He gets to produce facts and his witnesses.
Imagine Jim Jordan under oath on a witness stand or Trump . . .
No, they would never dare, I think.
Ocelot II
(129,435 posts)like James Comey, Adam Schiff and Letitia James. These cases will never be presented to a jury because the aim isn't to get a conviction; they know the charges are bullshit and won't stick. The purpose is to harass and embarrass their targets and cause them to be inconvenienced, to have their lives disrupted, and to have to spend a lot of money on legal fees.
BaronChocula
(4,087 posts)Every time this failed "president" fails without consequences, he doubles down on his failed tactics. In this way, he's like a Temu terminator.
When he fails WITH consequences (stock market plummets), he's like a TACO (he folds).
haele
(15,135 posts)"These people are evil people! My mortal enemies. And they're hiding behind the Law!"
bucolic_frolic
(54,241 posts)That's what we're up against. Turning the system of laws on its head.
yellow dahlia
(4,870 posts)We live in the upside down world.
The RWmedia is exerting mind control through a constant fire hose of inverted reality, under the guise of news and information.
Don't believe your lying eyes.
sinkingfeeling
(57,371 posts)irisblue
(36,950 posts)Yes, a prosecutor (and future AG) who handled war crimes at The Hague is worried about a draft dodging pedophile posting on social media. Come on, heâs not a Republican member of Congress here.
— (@aveline72.bsky.social) 2026-01-22T17:59:55.577Z
GusBob
(8,154 posts)What working person sets around watching television all day
Walleye
(43,931 posts)Traildogbob
(12,641 posts)Is trumps Fixer, Micheal Cohen. Says Who? Hope we are smart enough to not fall for her makeover to distance herself from him, until she needs a Pardon, like good ole Micheal. (What fools we were)
Crime pays. Pays damn well. Like ICE for high school dropouts.
God dont let Cohen and Bondi breed, if they unite to hold off the libs and prison.
MLWR
(813 posts)kerouac2
(1,441 posts)JFC that jumps out as such a ridiculous thing for this wrecking ball of a person to even say.
fierywoman
(8,512 posts)ananda
(34,524 posts)...
Bettie
(19,347 posts)prosecuting people. They can't even get indictments.
I think Mr. Smith will be just fine.
pfitz59
(12,408 posts)'Discovery' would destroy her case. Overwhelming proof that Trump committed treason.
ShazzieB
(22,278 posts)He wants what he wants, and he doesn't have enough sense to learn from his mistakes. When he wants somrthing, he will push and push, and if he has to finally give up on something, he'll make up a story that turns the loss into a win and tell it as often as possible. (Exhibit A: his continuing insistence that he won the 2020 election.)
Like a lot of people who go to work for Schlump, I think Blondi got more than she probably bargained for when she accepted the AG job. Either that, or she's dumber than a box of rocks. If she actually accepted that job in the full awareness that it was going to largely consist of lying, participating in coverups, and prosecuting innocent people that Schlump just happens not to like for nonexistent crimes, well...good for her, I guess.
For me, one of the biggest mysteries about Schlump is that so many people are still willing to sign on to be his lackeys after seeing the way he's publicly treated so many of his loyal bootlickers in the past. I can't imagine my way into the mindset of someone who would be able to tell themself "Never mind what happened to all those other people, I and I alone have the ability to keep Trump happy, commit all the crimes he wants me to commit, tell all the ludicrously transparent lies he wants me to tell, and do it all without destroying my career or ending up in jail. And even if I do get in trouble, his Supreme Orange Majesty will protect me!"
Right, lady, he'll protect you, the same way he protected Michael Cohen, Allen Weisselberg, Rudy Giuliani, and so many others.
in the meantime, have fun fending off the constant pressure to launch an investigation into Jack Smith with the aim of prosecuting him on some trumped up (pun intended) charge that any judge in their right mind will laugh out of court. I hope he keeps at it until he drives you as bat shit crazy as he is, because YOU DESERVE IT.
Grim Chieftain
(1,321 posts)The stupid - it hurts.
flashman13
(2,123 posts)ShazzieB
(22,278 posts)He knows Smith has the goods on him, without a doubt, and he can't stand it!
milestogo
(22,715 posts)Ever.
Vinca
(53,433 posts)Jimvanhise
(571 posts)Smith was hired to investigate Trump theft of government documents which Trump refused to return for a year. When the FBI went in and confiscated them, they said that there were top secret documents which if anyone else had them in their possession like that they would have arrested them on the spot. I wish they had.
twodogsbarking
(17,690 posts)Mblaze
(933 posts)Who told the "Proud Boys" to stand back and stand by and then incited his MAGA army to come to DC on January 6, saying "it will be wild". It was Democrats, not Trump, who told the mob to march to the Capitol saying "I will be with you" and told them to fight like hell or they would lose their country. It was Democrats, not Trump, who texted that Mike Pence had betrayed him that started the "Hang Mike Pence" chants while revealing their mini-gallows. It was Democrats, not Trump, who sat near the Oval Office watching those Trump flag carrying insurrectionists attack Capitol Police and breach the Capitol building by breaking windows and doors without making any move to stop it for three hours until Ivanka begged him to do something.
This was all viewed on TV live by Americans and concerned viewers around the world. Republicans continue to insist that humans deny their own eyes and ears and minds and buy their bullshit spin over and over again. Shame upon the Republican lie machine and shame upon MAGAs who refuse the truth. If the truth shall set you free then MAGA has no liberty.
txwhitedove
(4,345 posts)polite for a "deranged animal".
I can't believe this circus. The very opening had me yelling at Gym Jordan
choie
(6,710 posts)the discovery will be most interesting.
Grins
(9,292 posts)And if it does it will not survive a court jury. These are the guys who couldnt convict a guy for tossing a sub sandwich at an ICE officer.
ChicagoTeamster
(508 posts)Who's going to be the prosecutor? Jeanine Pirro is battings 1000.
C_U_L8R
(49,022 posts)That's one way to get the evidence in.
Methinks the Trump isn't so bright.
Boo1
(176 posts)Who literally couldn't indict a ham sandwich?
jonstl08
(545 posts)They will never do it because then Trump will be called as a material witness. Do you think they want trump on the stand under oath.
Lonestarblue
(13,269 posts)paleotn
(21,696 posts)Dave Bowman
(6,789 posts)popsdenver
(1,718 posts)arrest Putin, Netanyahu, and Trump for International War Crimes, and Crimes Against Humanity?????????