GOP Celebrates Jack Smith Moving to Drop Trump Cases: ‘Left Legislation Lost’

WASHINGTON (TNND) — Several Republicans on Monday cheered special counsel Jack Smith’s proposal to drop two criminal cases against President-elect Donald Trump, calling the moves a victory against the left’s “righteousness.”

Smith on Monday sought to drop all charges against Trump for mishandling classified documents and trying to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. He first asked a judge to dismiss the election interference case, pointing to Justice Department guidelines that limit prosecutions of sitting presidents, before moving about an hour later to remove Trump as a co-defendant from an appeal of a ruling in the classified documents case.

US District Judge Aileen Cannon, nominated by Trump in 2020, had dismissed the indictment against the president-elect in July.

Late. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., said the special counsel’s proceedings “will be remembered as a dark chapter of gun creation.”

They should never have been brought,” he wrote via X. “Our elections are decided by voters – not by fanatical, insane liberal lawyers like Jack Smith.”

Also responding was Rep. Troy Nehls, R-Texas, who noted that “the left’s bill was lost.”

“This law was always unprecedented,” added Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., in his own X post. “This law was always wrong. This law enforcement was always politically motivated. And this lawlessness MUST NEVER HAPPEN AGAIN.”

Rep. Jason Smith, R-Mo., and Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, each celebrated Smith’s move.

“It’s time for Jack Smith to end this political witch hunt against President Trump,” said Rep. Jason Smith, R-Mo..

The only thing that has changed is that Trump won the election,” said Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah. “And now Jack Smith is moving to dismiss. Doesn’t that amount to an admission that this was just politicized legislation from the beginning?”

Trump, in a Truth Social post, called the two lawsuits “empty and lawless” and argued they “should never have been filed.” He claimed that more than $100 million in taxpayer dollars has been “wasted” in “the Democratic Party’s fight” against him.

The House Judiciary Committee this month sent a notice to Smith’s office demanding that it preserve all records of its election interference investigation. Trump’s election victory, it wrote, may prompt “the purging of relevant records, communications and documents responsive to our numerous requests for information.”

Democrats have long seized on the Jan. 6, 2021, riots as evidence of Trump’s misdeeds during his first term as president. Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., suggested during the Democratic National Convention in August that her party “saved democracy” that day.

“Let’s not forget who saved democracy that day,” she said. “We did! And thank God we had a democratic House of Representatives back then.”

“When the sun rose on Jan. 7, as our national anthem declares, we gave proof through the night that our flag was still there,” added Rep. Pelosi.

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