>>20185623, >>20185627 Jack Smith losing PNhighlights and comms (?) of interview
__Exclusive — Donald Trump on Jack Smith: ‘I Think He Feels Like He’s Losing Politically’__4 Jan 2024
PALM BEACH, Florida — Former President Donald Trump said he feels like he is winning the war for public opinion against Special Counsel Jack Smith and that
•he believes a flurry of filings Smith has made in recent weeksin the cases against himdemonstrate that Smith thinks he is losing the war with Trump.
• “I think he [Smith] feels like he’s losing politically because I’m leading everybody by a lot,”
• “I think I’d be leading anyway,but I wouldn’t be leading by this much. People are really angry about the weaponization, about a political opponent, about a really dumb person taking the Justice Department [DOJ] — like we are a third-world country, and they are banana republic.They don’t like seeing where someone would use the FBI, the DOJ, and everything to go after a political opponent.
• We’re not respected. He [Democrat President Joe Biden] is not respected. What this guy has done to this country in three years is unbelievable.
•Also, during the interview,Trump called Smith someone who is straight out of “central casting.”
•Trump on Thursday formally moved to ask the court to hold Smith in contemptbecause he continues to make filings despite a stay on proceedings in the January 6 case in federal court in Washington, DC.
• The case, despite a loomingtrial datein early March,has been stayedas the appeals process for Trump’s immunity argument plays out.
• Trump argues he is immune from prosecution because the actions he took in the lead-up to January 6, 2021, in challenging the election results were official actions he took as the then-president of the United States.
• Trump said thatrecent filings Smith has made before the court asking the court to prevent Trump from speakingabout then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s refusal to accept the deployment of troops on January 6, 2021 — one of Trump’s key defenses —is a sign that Smith knows he is losing the war for public opinion on this front.
•“I think the filing he (Smith made this weekend is absolutely ridiculous,” Trump said in the interview. “It’s the craziest thing I’ve ever seen. I can’t speak about Nancy Pelosi turning down 10,000 troops? I can’t speak about him?
•He doesn’t want me to speak about anything. So, they’re allowed to speak, and they’re allowed to indict me, and they’re allowed to have news conferences, but I’m not allowed to defend myself?Which must mean he thinks I’m very effectively defending myself.”
• Trump added thatSmith “looks so pathetic”with the filing about the Pelosi part of this and that the truth is that Pelosi blocked the troops. “Well, it’s true,”
• Trump, explained his argument for why he believes thecourts should determine he has immunity. “The president is entitled to immunity because I wasn’t campaigning — even if I was, I was still entitled to it,” Trump said. This has to do with a rigged and corrupt election, anda president has an obligation to study that, analyze that, see if it’s true, and I happen to believe it’s true 100 percent, and it should be tried as part of this whole trial.”
• But what I was doing from the perspective oflaw enforcement and fairness in elections, I absolutely was —the election was stolen, and I was investigating that. “I think if you were the president of the United States and you felt that way and you didn’t investigate it, it would be terrible”.
•Trump’s presidential immunity claim has led to a holdupin the charges Smith brought against him in the nation’s capital before Chutkan.
• the losing side will almost certainlygo back to the Supreme Courtto ask the Justices review before the case could move forward to trial.the Supreme Court could drag the case past the general election in November 2024 — which means the trial could get delayed beyond election day.
• On that note,Trump has said in a prior interview he would fire Smithif elected president again. “No, I wouldn’t keep him,” “I think he’s a dishonest person.”
•Biden, meanwhile, has tried to personally distance himself politically from the Smith madness, claiming that Smith is an independent special counsel.
• Trump expanded on this point by arguing thatBiden has opened a door that may swing back around on him later.
• “It sets avery bad precedentbecause does this mean the next president goes after himbecause there’s a six-year statute of limitations?” Trump said.
•“Is he opening the door to allowing the next president because of the precedent he sets to go after him?I think it’s a very bad thing. I think we’re going down a very dangerous path.”
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/01/04/exclusive-donald-trump-on-jack-smith-i-think-he-feels-like-hes-losing-politically/