During a television broadcast on Thursday, former federal special counsel Jack Smith expressed deep concern regarding the current state of American jurisprudence. Appearing on the MS NOW program hosted by Nicolle Wallace, the former prosecutor described the current political landscape as an extraordinary threat to the nation’s legal foundations. He characterized the ongoing institutional shift as a unique challenge, calling it an assault “different in kind and scope to anything I’ve seen in my lifetime.” This marked his initial public media appearance since stepping down from his federal post in January 2025.

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    Hear me out. Downvote me if you must.

    I know the prevailing thought from the informed is “duh. We know this.” And I have been guilty of thinking this as well.

    The truth is with Bannons “flood the zone” media blitz strategy we are living in a time where the obvious bears repeating. We may know, we may be frustrated that it needs to be repeated but somewhere out there someone needs to be reminded. Reason is irrelevant. The zone needs to be flooded with the same truth over and over until the ignorant can’t ignore it.

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      Excellently stated - this is an important strategy that we should be mindful of. Also, nice username.

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        Also, to keep getting people to better people-owned alternatives. Better open source OS’es, better social platforms, better actually independent news sources, better companies to buy from (private and unionized/coop, no stock-market mostly), better apps, better coordination and collaboration daily in person and online (Matrix and Fluxer for real time collab to get shit done day in and day out), etc etc etc

        They are trying to take away peoples ownership of everything but you know what brings it back? All of us doing together. All of us reclaiming what we used to own, and owning what we have not owned yet that should be in people hands.

        We the people have the power!!! Keep doing and keep getting more people active everyone. Do yourself a favor by making yourself and us all stronger with more of us active and doing together!!!

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      Yeah. Another problem is the Dems always come from a defensive posture. The right says Medicare has fraud. The left has to say yes, but….

      We all know there’s fraud, but it’s minimal and doesn’t mean we tear it all down.

      The left absolutely needs to get the messaging straight and then get it out there.

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      There’s no reason to downvote you, you’re correct. The only issue I have with this reasoning is that it doesn’t take into account that those accepting the flooding aggressively reject outside information no matter how it’s offered.

      We can all be wrong because we want something to be true for whatever the reason, that’s understandable. The rejection of truth otoh is problematic, especially when that rejection rejoices in harm to others.

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    The person that probably knows the most about Trump’s egregious acts of treason, sedition, embezzlement, and child sex trafficking history is saying this.

    And I don’t doubt a word of it.

    But when half of the country is currently suffering a cult like form mass psychosis, it’s hard to find cures that are peaceful

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    Thanks Jack, but the people who pay attention to the news will listen to you and say “Duh, we already know this, it’s blatantly obvious.”

    The rest of the people are either profiting off of it, don’t know this but also don’t care, or don’t trust a word you say.

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    You should have said this while you were in the job. And you should have stayed in the job and fought for the law. Now you’re just another everyday American. Powerless.

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    I just can’t take anyone who was a part of the administration who tee’d up Trump 2.0 seriously. They didn’t take their jobs seriously. They are not serious people.