Donald Trump has been mocking and ridiculing Special Counsel Jack Smith for a while now but it appears that Smith may have cornered the former President in a legal trap from which it may be nearly impossible to escape.
The walls are closing in, so to speak, as Smith adds on major charges in the classified documents case and prepares to indict Trump in the election interference case.
And it’s worth remembering these are only two of at least four serious criminal cases against Trump in four different jurisdictions.
Furthermore, Trump appears to be convicting himself of some of the charges just about every time he opens his mouth. That is no doubt at least one of the reasons his attorneys have been increasingly desperate to meet with Smith’s team.
It may be too soon to determine how this all plays out politically, since Trump insists he is the victim of a conspiracy to get him. And if it turns out he is right about that, in the end it will have been a conspiracy of his own making.
All joking aside, it may be Jack Smith who has the last laugh in this matter.
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Special counsel brings more charges against Donald Trump in Mar-a-Lago classified documents case (CNN)
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