Biden’s Lawfare Backfired

Can we all just admit that their evil scheme backfired?

I’m talking, of course, about the Biden/Harris administration’s weaponization of the Department of Justice that turned prosecutors loose on the past and future president of the United States.

Instead of kneecapping his chances of being elected, the multiple prosecutions of Donald Trump made him a stronger candidate. 

Unlike Democrat leaders, rank and file Americans are not stupid. They saw what was happening and they didn’t like it. One thing about Americans: We have a fundamental sense of fair play. What was happening to the former president never felt fair. And it was clear that there would have been no prosecutions had Trump announced that he wasn’t running for president.

Special council Jack Smith filed motions yesterday to drop all criminal charges against Donald Trump in a Washington court. That included the charge of election interference and the documents case. He cited a policy against prosecuting sitting presidents.

Smith, a political hack masquerading as a prosecutor, loses once again, although he tried to save face by asking that the cases be dismissed without prejudice meaning that the charges could be revived in four years, when Trump is out of office.

Fat chance.

This is not the first time Smith has been used to target a top Republican.

Virginia had a front-row seats to Smith’s legal shenanigans when he prosecuted former Gov. Bob McDonnell for violating the Honest Services Act. Essentially he accused McDonnell of  bribery.

Prior to Smth’s prosecution, McDonnell was the darling of the Republican Party with a limitless future that might have culminated in the White House or the Naval Observatory. 

Smith was give the job of taking him down. Smith got his convictions, but the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously exonerated McDonnell in 2016. Yet it was a win for Smith: The former governor’s political career was in ashes. Not only that, but McDonnell had spent 3 1/2 years and a reported $28 million dueling with the vindictive prosector. 

Trump also spent millions on defense lawyers in the rash of cases that Democrat prosecutors brought against him in a cynical attempt to keep him out of the White House. (Not to mention the legal fees associated fighting cases in various states that attempted to keep Trump off the ballot.)

Tempting as it might be to use his Department of Justice to retaliate against his political enemies, Trump should not turn the United States into a compete banana republic.

Let’s hope, however, that Trump’s DOJ will be zealous in prosecuting members of Congress of either party who may have engaged in insider trading.

And it wouldn’t hurt to take a hard look at the possibility of bringing malicious prosecution charges against Biden’s lieutenants who dragged Trump into court repeatedly during the past two years.

That would include, of course, the loathsome Jack Smith.