Quotes
It may be that a future attorney general, whether serving in a Democratic or Republican administration, will lack the appetite to resuscitate the cases against Trump in 2029. But Smith has done all he can to preserve that possibility."
Concluding, McQuade said
She's a proven litigator, an inspiring leader and a champion for all Americans. She will bring the needed reforms to DOJ,
Gaetz said on X, formerly TwitterIn addition, by filing his motions pre-emptively, Smith was able to explain his reasons for dismissing the case, rather than allowing Trump's future AG to mischaracterize them.
McQuade continued about Smith in her opinion piece, saying
Is she also going to go after the grand jurors who found there was probable cause to believe he was engaged in multiple crimes?"
Schiff said on MSNBC, referring to Trump's attorney general nominee, Pam Bondi.jpg)
You can very well see a lot of prosecutors, like Durham, who spend millions of taxpayer dollars to come up with nothing,
Schiff told MSNBC's Nicolle WallaceRep. Adam Schiff illegally made up a FAKE & terrible statement, pretended it to be mine as the most important part of my call to the Ukrainian President, and read it aloud to Congress and the American people,
Trump wrote the next dayAnd what was additionally interesting was, by the time I would say the third indictment, public interest in each successive event went down,
York noted on The Hugh Hewitt Show
And it seems to me that it would be a good idea to make that clear: that these charges are dead. Completely, forever dead,
York said
I think it will be enormously difficult for Blanche to balance the orders he gets from the president with what he knows is the right thing to do,
former Justice Department inspector general Michael Bromwich told NBC News
The Department of Justice, the prosecutors will be prosecuted,
Bondi told Fox News in 2023
Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning,
the group wrote in a statement following Smith’s motions, quoting Winston ChurchillThat is how they and/or their predecessors have operated in the recent past,
his attorneys wrotePreserve your documents, because we’re coming after you. You people are criminals,
he saidThe government has moved to dismiss this appeal as to Donald Trump. If granted, defendant Trump will not appear in the caption in future filings in this case."
The special counsel alluded to that in a footnote of the brief, writingThe Attorney General—like other department heads, see Gov.Br.39-40—has relied on Congress's broad grant of power to staff and operate his department for more than 150 years,
the brief readsBy statute, the Attorney General retains plenary control over all officers of the Department of Justice,
Tuesday's brief saidHe attempted a coup, and what was Merrick Garland doing? Nothing. So every day the clock went by, he undermined us. It helped normalize Donald Trump,
Obeidallah said
Thank God Merrick Garland waited nearly two years to appoint Jack Smith because, after all, nothing is more important than preventing the optics of politicization."
Political commentator, podcast host and author of Shameless: Republicans' Deliberate Dysfunction and the Battle to Preserve Democracy, Brian Tyler Cohen, posted
Never forget how much responsibility Merrick Garland has for Donald Trump's second presidency and total evasion of legal accountability."
Progressive journalist and former MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan saidMerrick Garland will either go down as the most ineffective attorney general in American history—or there will no longer be America or history as we know it."
Tristan Snell, a former assistant attorney general for New York who led the investigation and prosecution into Trump University and spoke at this year's Democratic National Convention, posted on X, formerly Twitter