INGRASSIA: Jack Smith’s 165-Page Memo Is Textbook Election Interference: A Very Brief Legal Recap
Jack Smith’s redacted presidential immunity motion is a complete nothing burger. He cites basically no law. To the extent he cites any law, such as recent precedent from the Supreme Court’s Trump decision, he deliberately misinterprets it to accommodate his equally contrived facts, a lazy hodgepodge of cobbled-together phone calls and statements in the public domain that Smith blanket rubber-stamped as “unofficial” presidential acts. He makes no attempt to distinguish these “unofficial” acts from the “official” ones President Trump allegedly committed, as the law requires, that fall under the immunity doctrine.
The lack of “evidence” here is what makes this 165-page, dross-filled makeshift motion so ridiculous. Smith is prosecuting President Trump for public statements issued in the lead-up and immediate aftermath of the 2020 election,
