The Deep State runs deeper than most of us suspect; the underground labyrinth of invisible connections and contacts would drive a mole to distraction.
Now here's another: Special Counsel Jack Smith, the anti-Trump legalist who leveled two criminal cases against President Trump, has admitted to receiving $140,000 in free legal work from a prominent D.C. law firm.
Jack Smith, the special counsel who brought two criminal cases against President Donald Trump, received $140,000 in pro bono legal services from a prominent Washington law firm before he resigned last month.
Covington & Burling provided the legal representation, according to a disclosure POLITICO obtained that Smith submitted Jan. 10 in connection with his departure from the Justice Department.
Exactly what legal representation is required for resigning from a job is unclear. I'm not a lawyer, nor do I play one on television, but even in the rarified atmosphere of D.C., $140,000 in legal fees seems awfully high for a guy who is just quitting his job - and the law firm doesn't seem interested in discussing it.
A spokesperson for Covington declined comment. Two of the Covington lawyers representing Smith, Peter Koski and Lanny Breuer, did not respond to messages seeking comment.
You don't say.
Of course, yes, the attorney-client privilege applies, and Jack Smith enjoys the benefits of that just as much as any murderer on Death Row.
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On X, Sean Davis, CEO and co-founder of The Federalist, lent some insight into what statutes Smith's acceptance (bribes? Let's say that quietly) may have violated.
How on earth is it legal for a law firm with clients and business before DOJ to provide $140,000 in free gifts to a top DOJ official?
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) February 15, 2025
DOJ rules and federal regulations explicitly prohibit officials like Jack Smith from accepting or soliciting gifts.
Smith, who did not receive a… https://t.co/3Us8VDP7wY pic.twitter.com/cddz3eX7ck
Mr. Davis's post reads in full:
How on earth is it legal for a law firm with clients and business before DOJ to provide $140,000 in free gifts to a top DOJ official?
DOJ rules and federal regulations explicitly prohibit officials like Jack Smith from accepting or soliciting gifts.
Smith, who did not receive a pardon from Joe Biden, needs to be criminally investigated for this.
This may well happen. Attorney General Pam Bondi is still new to the job, but she has plenty of experience and is looking hard at the events around J6 and the various Trump legal cases; it's a safe bet this news will make her perk up her ears. She has already issued a directive to the Justice Department - she is their boss now, after all - stating that the Department of Justice:
...must take immediate and overdue steps to restore integrity and credibility with the public that we are charged with protecting, and to ensure that the Department's personnel are ready and willing to faithfully implement the policy agenda of the duly elected President of the United States.
Overdue is something of an understatement.
It is, of course, too soon to draw any real conclusions from this. But the legacy media is notoriously quiet about seeming shenanigans like this when it involves Democrats and all too quick to leap on Republicans at any tiny hint of impropriety, which is in essence what Jack Smith did to President Trump.
Well, Mr. Smith - now that old saying about sauce for the goose may well be applied.
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