Jack Smith adds war crimes prosecutor -- his deputy from the Hague -- to special counsel team

[sheshe2]

The special counsel’s office is gearing up to put Donald Trump on trial in two criminal cases next year.

Special counsel Jack Smith has added a veteran war crimes prosecutor — who served as Smith’s deputy during his stint at the Hague — to his team as it prepares to put former President Donald Trump on trial in Washington and Florida.

Alex Whiting worked alongside Smith for three years, helping prosecute crimes against humanity that occurred in Kosovo in the late 1990s. The Yale-educated attorney also worked as a prosecutor with the International Criminal Court from 2010 to 2013. He has taught law classes at Harvard since 2007 as well, hired as an assistant professor by then-Dean Elena Kagan — now a Supreme Court justice — and rising to a visiting professorship in 2013.

Whiting’s precise role on Smith’s team is unclear. A spokesperson for Smith declined to comment, and Whiting did not immediately return requests for comment. The prosecutors’ office in the Hague and Harvard University also did not respond to requests for comment about Whiting’s current employment status.

But a POLITICO reporter observed Whiting at the U.S. district courthouse in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday and Thursday, spending several hours monitoring the trial of a Jan. 6 defendant. The judge in the case is Tanya Chutkan, who is slated to preside over Trump’s trial in March on federal charges stemming from his efforts to subvert the 2020 election.

More: https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/22/jack-smith-special-counsel-prosecutor-trump-00117736

Hmmm...Tick Tock

[marble falls]

1. I hope this causes more gnashing of teeth at Mar A-Lago.

[Aviation Pro]

2. Motherfucker is still in his Bedminster mob lair

He's too fucking fat to weather the heat in Merde - a - Lardo until October.

[SheilaAnn]

4. He's back here in Florida, arrived last weekend. We're all so thrilled NOT! n/t

[Aviation Pro]

5. Damnit....

I'm 40 miles to the southwest of that fucking stopped up bilge pump. I thought I caught a whiff of odious excrement, thanks for confirming it.

[SheilaAnn]

10. I'm 2-1/2 miles from MAL, "over the bridge" as they say..(West Palm)..n/t

[bucolic_frolic]

3. Wow. And I mean wow.

My mind goes to making an angle on the insurrection. War against the USA. Recall the armed foot soldiers and the DNC/RNC bomb. None of it was grass roots.

[anciano]

6. Hmm....

an interesting development indeed.

[emulatorloo]

9. Watch this space...

Very curious about where this is going.

[Hekate]

8. I don't know what this means, but I like how it sounds

[gratuitous]

12. The defendant will tell us what it means

Look for an unhinged all-caps social media post about how everybody hates him and nobody loves him.

[sheshe2]

13. Well for once he would be telling the truth.

Minus MAGA of course, everyone hates him.

[JoseBalow]

18. Deranged & Derangeder

[Septua]

11. Another prosecutor 'target' for Trump to attack as deranged.

[wiggs]

14. Espionage? Foreign asset, even if unwitting? money laundering? So many potential crimes

to choose from!

This is why Trump and GOP are so desperately clinging to each other and to the faint hope of Trump getting elected again. Not only to escape punishment but also to complete plans already schemed but not finished.

Many DUrs have said...this is global in reach and global oligarchs have vested interest.

[NoMoreRepugs]

15. This upcoming election and trials are the final fight..

Truly David (Democratic voters) vs Goliath (Billionaire Oligarchs & the Deplorable horde)….

[republianmushroom]

16. trump best get ready for an orange jump suit.

[BumRushDaShow]

17. Makes me wonder

if there might be ties/tie-ins to the classified docs case.

[sheshe2]

19. Exactly.

Also why tfg says he wants to delay again. He says he hasn't had time between golf, parties, rallies and teevee interviews.

He is terrified.

[BumRushDaShow]

20. The excessive "delays" are why few in NY would even bother

trying to take him to court, and that was over the past 50 or so years, much to the detriment of this nation. They had neither the time nor resources (financial and personnel) to go through what have been seeing play out the past 2 years.

[scipan]

21. Litman has known him for 30 years

Link to tweet

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I’ve known Alex Whiting for 30 years. He is the gold standard- smart, fair, thoughtful, public spirited.

Jack Smith adds war crimes prosecutor — his deputy from the Hague — to special counsel team - POLITICO

[Shanti Shanti Shanti]

22. War crimes, Nuremberg trials, special prosecutor in a black hood, standing by the gallows pole, cool