With These Filings, Pretty Clear Special Counsel Jack Smith Is Preparing for His Exit

It's over for Special Counsel Jack Smith. He had unlimited resources, an army of anti-Trump attorneys, and the media to push his narrative at will—and he lost. If there's anything to glean from this, it's the irony that the strength of our institutions saved President-elect Donald J. Trump from legal hell. Liberals claim to be vanguards of our system while arguing that Trump will usurp everything and create a fascistic regime. We've known for quite some time that the opposite was true. The integrity of our institutions blocked and stifled a quick politically motivated prosecution of Mr. Trump, which got more unpopular daily.

Mr. Smith, who is expected to vacate the Justice Department once Trump retakes office, has officially asked for his appeal in the classified documents case, which was initially thrown out over the summer, to be trashed as well (via Associated Press ):

Smith's Hail Mary was a 165-page refiling of the charges pertaining to the 2020 election and the January 6 riot. It was a nakedly partisan move, which led to CNN's chief legal analyst Elie Honig, a former assistant US attorney, to pen a damning about Smith, arguing that he cannibalized his principles as a prosecutor to sway an election. He broke the cardinal rule . Overall, Honig has been critical of Smith's latter antics and the Manhattan hush money trial, in general, which likely earned him the ire of anti-Trump leftists.

Will there be a report after all these theatrics? The Associated Press said, as of now, that's unknown. The Justice Department and Jack Smith's team have been working to shut down their shoddy legal crusade against Mr. Trump since the former's blowout win over Kamala Harris

The lawfare failed. We beat them. Now, it's time to rebuild the country.