Jack Smith thought he could destroy Donald Trump and walk away clean.
But the walls are closing in on the corrupt prosecutor.
And Jack Smith got caught red-handed and his lawyers just made one desperate move that backfired.
Jack Smith’s attorneys cry foul as lawfare probe heats up
Former special counsel Jack Smith is scrambling like a rat in a maze now that investigators are breathing down his neck.
The disgraced prosecutor’s high-powered attorneys at Covington and Burling fired off a panicked letter claiming their client did absolutely nothing wrong during his two-year witch hunt against President Trump.
"The predicate for this investigation is imaginary and unfounded," whined lawyers Lanny Breuer and Peter Koski in their desperate correspondence.
The letter was a direct response to reports that a government watchdog under the Department of Justice had opened an investigation into Smith’s prosecutions of Trump – prosecutions that looked suspiciously like political hit jobs designed to interfere with the 2024 election.
"A review of the record and procedural history demonstrates the opposite — Mr. Smith was fiercely committed to making prosecutorial decisions based solely on the evidence, he steadfastly followed applicable Department of Justice guidelines and the Principles of Federal Prosecution, and he did not let the pending election influence his investigative or prosecutorial decision-making."
The letter also claimed that "Mr. Smith’s actions as Special Counsel were consistent with the decisions of a prosecutor who has devoted his career to following the facts and the law, without fear or favor and without regard for the political consequences, not because of them."
The acting Office of Special Counsel Jamieson Greer is now investigating Smith after receiving a referral from Senator Tom Cotton (R-AL), who wasn’t buying Smith’s innocent act for one second.
Cotton argued that Smith’s legal actions had "no rationale" except to serve as lawfare to affect the 2024 election and deny Trump the presidency.
And Cotton was right to call this what it was – a clear violation of federal law, including the Hatch Act which prohibits federal employees from engaging in political activities.
Smith’s timing reveals the political hit job
Look at the timeline and tell me this wasn’t coordinated political warfare.
Smith spent about two years investigating and prosecuting Trump during the Biden administration, bringing two separate indictments against the President.
One alleged Trump unlawfully retained classified documents and refused to comply with requests for their return – the same type of documents Biden had scattered around his garage next to his Corvette.
The other alleged Trump engaged in a criminal conspiracy to overturn the results of the 2020 election – this from the same people who spent four years claiming the 2016 election was stolen by Russia.
But here’s the kicker that exposes the whole scam.
Smith moved to dismiss both cases after Trump won the 2024 election, citing "longstanding DOJ practice against prosecuting sitting presidents."
So let me get this straight – these cases were so urgent and important that they couldn’t wait, but the moment Trump won the election they suddenly became dismissible?
That’s not how justice works, folks.
That’s how political hit jobs work.
The desperate damage control begins
Smith’s lawyers are now demanding special treatment in their letter, writing: "In light of the unprecedented nature of this investigation, if you intend to go forward with this in any way, we insist that you engage with us so that any finding by the Office of Special Counsel is fully informed by the record."
Translation: "Please don’t look too closely at what we actually did because we know it stinks to high heaven."
These are the same legal eagles who claimed Smith "did not let the pending election influence his investigative or prosecutorial decision-making."
But the timing tells a different story entirely.
The whole operation was designed to damage Trump before the election, and when that plan failed spectacularly, they tried to cut and run.
Here’s what really happened – and everyone in Washington, D.C. knows it.
The Biden administration weaponized the Justice Department to go after their chief political rival using a special counsel with a history of prosecutorial misconduct.
They figured they could either put Trump in prison or at least damage him enough politically to hand the election to Biden.
When American voters saw through the scam and elected Trump anyway, Smith suddenly discovered all these "longstanding DOJ practices" that meant the cases had to be dropped.
You want to know why Smith’s lawyers are panicking?
Because this investigation might actually expose how deep the corruption goes and how many people were involved in this coordinated attack on American democracy.
The same people who spent years screaming about "threats to democracy" were the ones actually threatening it by turning our justice system into a political weapon.
Now they’re about to find out that actions have consequences – even for special counsels who think they’re above the law.
¹ Lowell Cauffiel, "Jack Smith Attorneys Ridicule Lawfare Probe as ‘Imaginary and Unfounded’," Breitbart, August 27, 2025.
