Trump Has Public Freak-Out After DOJ Targets His Election Interference

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Donald Trump has apparently heard about the subpoena from Special Counsel Jack Smith’s investigation recently issued to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, which demanded any records of communications with Trump or any employee, agent, or attorney for his campaign across a months-long period starting before the 2020 presidential election and ending on the day of Biden’s inauguration.

Public reporting has already shown that the subpoena could actually cover a lot, considering the repeated contacts between officials in Georgia and the Trump team. The then-president infamously pressured Raffensperger on a January 2021 phone call for action on the presidential election results, which showed Joe Biden winning Georgia. Specific figures named in the subpoena to Raffensperger demanding any records of communications to or from a list of Trump’s allies include Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, John Eastman, and Lin Wood, all of whom were involved in attempts to see the 2020 presidential election results thrown out. Giuliani is currently facing the potential for disbarment in connection to an ethics case from the disciplinary counsel overseeing lawyers in D.C. Regarding the subpoena, Donald was furious.

“The Eric Holder/Obama disciple, Special “Prosecutor” Jack Smith (he’s no Jack Smith), has found NOTHING that I have done wrong or differently than other Presidents on the “Boxes Hoax” (Raid of Mar-a-Lago), including the fact that Presidents are PROTECTED under the Presidential Records Act, the Clinton Socks Case, & more,” Trump insisted on Friday. “Now “Smith” is snooping around the PERFECT PHONE CALL I made to the Georgia Sec. of State challenging the corrupt Presidential Election results, my absolute right to do!”

What on earth does he mean by calling the recently appointed special counsel “no Jack Smith”? That’s the guy’s name! Previous reporting about a court case over recordings Clinton once stored in a clothes drawer notes that federal Judge Amy Berman Jackson, who was handling the proceedings, observed a distinction under the Presidential Records Act between records solely personal and those that were, well, not. Clinton’s recordings of interviews done with the now former president just aren’t in the same category as documents identified by federal authorities as classified and later recovered from Trump as part of a probe the special counsel is also leading.