Special Counsel Jack Smith just commited one of the greatest acts of election interference in U.S. history.
The special prosecutor just charged the 45th President of the United States, Donald J. Trump, with conspiring against the nation that he once led to peace and prosperity.
The J6 indictment against Biden's chief 2024 adversary provides interference for a sitting president whom is undoubtedly one of the most corrupt presidents the nation has ever witnessed.
The grand inquisitor is bringing forth Civil War era charges against Trump last seen during Reconstruction; namely, Section 241 of Title 18 of the United States Code, which makes it a crime for people to “conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person” in the “free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States.”
This antedated statute invokes racial overtones to smear the former president through insinuation. Congress passed the law after the Civil War with the aim of giving federal agents the means to pursue Southern whites, including Ku Klux Klan members who perpetrated acts of terrorism to hinder the voting rights of freed slaves. It has recently been resurrected for the singular purpose of charging J6 defendants; by extension, of course, former President Donald J. Trump.
Another charge, conspiracy to defraud the government, is risible given the U.S. government has done nothing but defraud the American people since Donald Trump appeared as a presidential candidate. Trump was accused of colluding with Russia to win the 2016 election, an implicit charge of treason for which he was later exonerated. Trump was impeached as president for seeking information on former Vice President Biden's actions in Ukraine, a request that has borne out to have significant merit. Indeed, then Speaker Pelosi undoubtedly impeached Donald Trump in search of a crime in order to stop any further investigation into the matter.
Most pertinently, Trump was impeached for his alleged incitement of the January 6 riot. Never mind that he told the crowd before the Capitol Riots begin to 'peacefully and patriotically make their voices heard.' And that he told the rioters to stand down on social media platforms before he was banned in a transparent act of political collusion. And that the rioters themselves were penetrated by FBI agents months in advance, who subsequently did nothing to stop them. One agent even admitted by text message that there appeared to be no substantive plot to overthrow the government, as the dejected New York Times reported.
Trump was also ultimately exonerated in a Senate trial. Thus, the constitutional process for adjudicating high crimes and misdemeanors that applies to U.S. presidents because they have sovereign immunity as head of state, namely, impeachment, is being completely undermined in a reckless DOJ effort to fling spaghetti against a judicial wall to see if anything sticks.
But most interestingly, the U.S. Supreme Court is being asked to adjudicate a third potential charge that applies directly to Donald Trump: Obstruction of an official proceeding.
A J6 defendant named Edward Lang recently filed a petition for a writ of certiorari, a type of appeal to the Supreme Court to review a lower court case. As the petition states, the SCOTUS’ decision “will influence scores, if not hundreds, of prosecutions arising from the riot at the Capitol on January 6, 2021.”
The writ of certiorari suggested that Lang's appeal could impact the Justice Department’s potential January 6 case against Trump. Lang emphasized the timing of the filing, noting that Trump is currently a leading figure within the Republican Party.
At the heart of the case is the alleged misapplication of 18 U.S. Code 1512 (c)(2), which regards to the obstruction of official proceedings, particularly with a “corrupt purpose.”