Marjorie Taylor Greene has an idea for the first element of the agenda of the second term of Donald Trump: Prosecute the special lawyer Jack Smith.
“What Jack Smith does is completely illegal. He should be continued,” Greene said in an appearance on the “War Room” podcast by Steve Bannon on Thursday. “After winning on November 5, Jack Smith should be continued.”
Smith’s office unveiled on Wednesday an overwhelming deposit, making public some of the most extreme allegations and evidence of the interference of the elections against the former president. Smith has been a special independent lawyer since 2022, responsible for investigating the Trump elections interference program and the classified documents case, the latter was finally launched by the judge appointed by Trump, Aileen Cannon.
Greene’s suggestion that Smith’s appointment was illegal was that that Cannon used as justification to launch this case, although the judges in other Trump cases, including judge DC Tanya Chutkan, rejected the argument.
In the clip, Greene also called for prosecution against the American lawyer Matthew Graves, who continued the participants in the riots of January 6. Greene last year submitted statutes against Graves.
The comments also suggest a disturbing attitude towards the independence of prosecutors in a possible second term Trump. The remarks come as Trump plots a return to the White House, detailing the plans to install loyalists in a possible attempt to influence surveys.
Trump would have already tested the architect’s practice of the Ministry of Justice during his first mandate as president, ordering him to investigate criticism and to seize the phones of journalists and to threaten to dismiss adversaries.
But the proposals in the 2025 project and Trump’s own remarks indicate that the candidate would have an unprecedented vocal role in the affairs of the Ministry of Justice, fulfilling the agency of staff members who would be more disposed than those responsible for his first mandate to adapt to political opponents.
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