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tblue37

(68,449 posts) Sat Mar 18, 2023, 12:29 AM Mar 2023

Encouraging 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

Predicting SC Smith will be person of the year! SheltieLover Mar 2023 #1

Twitter thread has another great Jack Smith meme 😀 FakeNoose Mar 2023 #2

Yeah, but to be current.. Cha Mar 2023 #6

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

If white house changes hands he's there to finish Captain Zero Mar 2023 #4

TY, I Understood That.. Not Cha Mar 2023 #5

In the, "Oh, God. We've actually got to do something about this, huh?" sense... Silent3 Mar 2023 #7

The Closer. tanyev Mar 2023 #8

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

(81,718 posts)

1. Predicting SC Smith will be person of the year!

Reply to tblue37 (Original post)

Sat Mar 18, 2023, 12:33 AM

Mar 2023

FakeNoose

(42,410 posts)

2. Twitter thread has another great Jack Smith meme 😀

Reply to tblue37 (Original post)

Sat Mar 18, 2023, 12:41 AM

Mar 2023

Cha

(320,590 posts)

6. Yeah, but to be current..

Reply to FakeNoose (Reply #2)

Sat Mar 18, 2023, 02:25 AM

Mar 2023

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

(15,485 posts)

3. This is the way I've always seen it. Were I in Garland's position, I wouldn't have brought in . . .

Reply to tblue37 (Original post)

Sat Mar 18, 2023, 12:49 AM

Mar 2023

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

(8,954 posts)

4. If white house changes hands he's there to finish

Reply to Journeyman (Reply #3)

Sat Mar 18, 2023, 02:16 AM

Mar 2023

Special Prosecutors are only done when THEY SAY they are done.

A gop victory in 2024 won't be able remove him.

Cha

(320,590 posts)

5. TY, I Understood That.. Not

Reply to tblue37 (Original post)

Sat Mar 18, 2023, 02:21 AM

Mar 2023

hard at all.

Silent3

(15,909 posts)

7. In the, "Oh, God. We've actually got to do something about this, huh?" sense...

Reply to tblue37 (Original post)

Sat Mar 18, 2023, 02:28 AM

Mar 2023

…of bringing it home.

tanyev

(49,683 posts)

8. The Closer.

Reply to tblue37 (Original post)

Sat Mar 18, 2023, 07:52 AM

Mar 2023

Bernardo de La Paz

(60,320 posts)

9. Exactly. Garland knows details, knows the rump is guilty, but had to formalize it to distance it

Reply to tblue37 (Original post)

Sat Mar 18, 2023, 08:05 AM

Mar 2023

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.

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