Bob McDonnell, A Past Jack Smith Target, Rips ‘Overzealous’ Trump Prosecutor | Eastern North Carolina Now

    Publisher's Note: This post appears here courtesy of the The Daily Wire. The author of this post is Daniel Chaitin.

    Former Virginia Republican Governor Bob McDonnell condemned Jack Smith, the special counsel prosecuting former President Donald Trump in a documents case, speaking with an air of personal experience.

    "I think he's overzealous and overaggressive," McDonnell said in a Wednesday interview with Newsmax, a day after Trump was arraigned in Miami. He added that Smith "would rather win than get it right."

    Smith oversaw the Department of Justice's public integrity unit that scored a bribery and extortion conviction against McDonnell in a gifts case that was then thrown out by the Supreme Court with an 8-0 decision in 2016. Smith's record includes the unsuccessful prosecution against former Sen. John Edwards (D-NC).

    McDonnell said Smith is "willing to extend the law to the point to get a win and that's absolutely wrong," alluding to Chief Justice John Roberts writing in the court's opinion of McDonnell's case, rejecting the government's "boundless interpretation of the federal bribery statute."

    On Tuesday, Trump appeared in court and pleaded not guilty to 37 charges, including 31 alleged violations of the Espionage Act for "willful retention" of national defense information, as well as charges related to obstruction and making false statements.

    During an address to supporters at his New Jersey resort that evening, Trump accused Smith of running "political hit jobs," name-dropping McDonnell specifically, and called the special counsel a "thug."

    McDonnell said he appreciated the support. The makeup of the jury will dictate whether Trump's verbal attacks on Smith were a good idea, McDonnell said, adding that there is "criminal culpability" if the evidence in the indictment is "actually proven."

    After the indictment was unsealed last week, Smith said he hoped for a "speedy trial" in the Trump case. "We have one set of laws in this country and they apply to everyone," Smith said. "Applying those laws, collecting facts, that's what determines the outcome of an investigation. Nothing more, nothing less."

    David Harbach, who served as a leading prosecutor in the cases against McDonnell and Edwards, spoke for the government during Trump's arraignment, which shows Smith brought the "gang" back together, McDonnell said.

    Also referring to Smith, McDonnell said he is concerned there is "a desire to win with a high-profile political figure in the middle of a campaign maybe being more of a motivation than getting the law right."

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In light of continued developments, primarily since 2008, there exists in these United States a Legal System which operates on a proved Two Tiered approach to justice rendered, which primarily benefits Democratic Elites and Woke Ideological Virtue Signalers, representing their co-dependent wards, to the expressed exclusion of normal hardworking American citizens: What is your suggestion in remedying this widespread injustice and, if not corrected, its existential outcome for our Constitutional Republic?

  Complete overhaul of the Department of Justice and their enforcers - the FBI - to reflect a far more honest justice system to keep patriots remaining calm.

  Disband the FBI, and request that congress investigate all unethical and non patriotic practices to partially right the wrongs of a distrusted and politically weaponized "Department of Justice."

  Continue with the current system since the two tiered justice system has been so remarkably beneficial to Democratic Socialist political hegemony; chronic distrust in institutions notwithstanding.

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