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Conservatives attack special counsel Jack Smith as evidence builds against Trump [1]

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Date: 2023-09

Conservative media outlets and figures have ramped up their attacks on special counsel Jack Smith, who is in charge of two criminal investigations of former President Donald Trump, following news reports on increasing evidence of Trump’s alleged crimes. Many of these conservatives are accusing Smith of “leaking” evidence to the press, and a former Trump appointee with a seemingly personal grudge against Smith repeatedly claimed without evidence that the special counsel hates Trump and is politically biased in his investigations.

Smith is investigating Trump for withholding classified documents from the federal government and for his attempt to illegally remain in power following his electoral defeat in the 2020 presidential election. News reports about developments in these two investigations have spurred most of the recent right-wing attacks on Smith.

On May 31, CNN reported that “federal prosecutors have obtained an audio recording of a summer 2021 meeting in which former President Donald Trump acknowledges he held onto a classified Pentagon document about a potential attack on Iran,” adding that the recording undercuts “his argument that he declassified everything” that was seized from his Mar-a-Lago property last year. And on May 25, The Washington Post reported that Trump staffers moved boxes of documents before the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago and that he showed classified documents to people.

Other articles that drew attacks from conservatives include reports that prosecutors issued a subpoena for information about some of Trump’s foreign business dealings and that Trump aides were subpoenaed about the firing of cybersecurity official Christopher Krebs after he debunked Trump’s lies about the security of voting machines in 2020.

Trump has attacked Smith for months on his social media account, and some of his attorneys recently sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland requesting a meeting and whining that Trump “is being treated unfairly.” But following the most recent news reports on the strength of the evidence against Trump, conservative media are stepping up their own attacks on Smith, mostly by accusing him of leaking information about the Trump investigations or claiming that he personally hates Trump.

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