During his decades-long career, Smith has shown himself to be an extremely skilled and highly competent legal professional and public servant. He has successfully prosecuted international war criminals, corrupt politicians, and members of criminal organizations. The special counsel is methodical, focused and task-oriented. It is no surprise why Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed Smith as special counsel, giving him the responsibility for bringing Trump to justice in what will truly be “the trial of the century.”

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      same. trump has seemed to be so slippery and able to get out of pretty much anything :/

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        Can you imagine if either of us did 10% if what he did? Our cases would be long complete and we’d be in prison.

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          exactly my thinking :/ we still have a huge “cop ego” and profiling problem here in the states, too. so many americans, especially p.o.c., getting profiled all the time for nothing. they’re even worse off and trump gets to ask for “damages”. it’s disgusting

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    I’ve seen some op eds calling for a pardon for trump a la Nixon with then President Ford. I can see why they think it’s a good idea but at some point you have to pay for your misdeeds. If trump is ever actually found guilty and sentenced to jail I think it’s very necessary to set a standard and actually make him follow through on being punished. I feel like a pardon would show his supporters that whatever he did wasn’t too bad if he got pardoned. They’ll call it a witch hunt no matter the result, might as well make it so that there is some justice actually seen at the end of it all.