{"id":129453,"date":"2025-08-04T13:41:23","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T21:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/08\/04\/trump-launches-jack-smith-investigation-and-thats-probably-going-to-backfire\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T13:41:23","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T21:41:23","slug":"trump-launches-jack-smith-investigation-and-thats-probably-going-to-backfire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/08\/04\/trump-launches-jack-smith-investigation-and-thats-probably-going-to-backfire\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Launches Jack Smith Investigation\u2026 And That\u2019s Probably Going To Backfire"},"content":{"rendered":"

The over-the-top bullying of the Trump II reign continues. Over the weekend it was revealed the Office of Special Counsel opened an investigation into former special prosecutor Jack Smith<\/a>, otherwise known as a thorn in the side of Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

When Trump was a mere wannabe authoritarian, that is, during his most recent candidacy, Smith brought two different criminal cases against him. One alleged Trump conspired to overturn the results of the 2020 election, the other was about classified documents found at Mar-A-Lago. And Trump\u2019s retaliatory bend<\/a> has targeted Smith<\/a> before, so perhaps it is not shocking that there\u2019s now this investigation into Smith\u2019s political activity in violation of the Hatch Act.<\/p>\n

But this latest move of retribution might not work out for Trump. Former federal prosecutor Andrew Weissmann, who worked on the Mueller investigation,\u00a0appeared on MSNBC, pointing out the potential downside for Trump himself. \u201cIf they were actually to bring a case, this is the last thing that you would think the Trump administration and Trump himself would want,\u201d Weissmann said.<\/p>\n

\u201cTrump spent years trying to avoid \u2014 and largely being successful at avoiding \u2014 any of these cases going to trial. And if he\u2019s going to have a trial here, that\u2019s going to be a forum for Jack Smith and people to put on the evidence that he has tried for so long to avoid,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n

You can watch the full segment below.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Kathryn Rubino is a Senior Editor at Above the Law, host of The Jabot podcast<\/a>, and co-host of Thinking Like A Lawyer<\/a>. AtL tipsters are the best, so please connect with her. Feel free to email her<\/a> with any tips, questions, or comments and follow her on Twitter @Kathryn1<\/a>\u00a0or Mastodon @Kathryn1@mastodon.social.<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The post Trump Launches Jack Smith Investigation\u2026 And That\u2019s Probably Going To Backfire<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The over-the-top bullying of the Trump II reign continues. Over the weekend it was revealed the Office of Special Counsel opened an investigation into former special prosecutor Jack Smith<\/a>, otherwise known as a thorn in the side of Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

When Trump was a mere wannabe authoritarian, that is, during his most recent candidacy, Smith brought two different criminal cases against him. One alleged Trump conspired to overturn the results of the 2020 election, the other was about classified documents found at Mar-A-Lago. And Trump\u2019s retaliatory bend<\/a> has targeted Smith<\/a> before, so perhaps it is not shocking that there\u2019s now this investigation into Smith\u2019s political activity in violation of the Hatch Act.<\/p>\n

But this latest move of retribution might not work out for Trump. Former federal prosecutor Andrew Weissmann, who worked on the Mueller investigation,\u00a0appeared on MSNBC, pointing out the potential downside for Trump himself. \u201cIf they were actually to bring a case, this is the last thing that you would think the Trump administration and Trump himself would want,\u201d Weissmann said.<\/p>\n

\u201cTrump spent years trying to avoid \u2014 and largely being successful at avoiding \u2014 any of these cases going to trial. And if he\u2019s going to have a trial here, that\u2019s going to be a forum for Jack Smith and people to put on the evidence that he has tried for so long to avoid,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n

You can watch the full segment below.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Kathryn Rubino is a Senior Editor at Above the Law, host of The Jabot podcast<\/a>, and co-host of Thinking Like A Lawyer<\/a>. AtL tipsters are the best, so please connect with her. Feel free to email her<\/a> with any tips, questions, or comments and follow her on Twitter @Kathryn1<\/a>\u00a0or Mastodon @Kathryn1@mastodon.social.<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The post Trump Launches Jack Smith Investigation\u2026 And That\u2019s Probably Going To Backfire<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The over-the-top bullying of the Trump II reign continues. Over the weekend it was revealed the Office of Special Counsel opened an investigation into former special prosecutor Jack Smith, otherwise known as a thorn in the side of Donald Trump. When Trump was a mere wannabe authoritarian, that is, during his most recent candidacy, Smith […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":129454,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_5243-1-scaled-e1623338814705-620x568-QMoARg.jpg?fit=620%2C568&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}