In true Trumpian fashion, the former president was quick to try and discredit this highly respected career prosecutor. He has obviously built up a reputation for slinging mud at anyone who would dare to investigate him, but this time it somehow feels different. Trump is coming across as someone who sounds genuinely fearful of this appointment.
Immediately after Garland announced Smith would be taking the reigns of these investigations, Trump took to his social media platform Truth Social to denounce the Justice Department’s move as ‘appalling’ and a ‘horrendous abuse of power,’ adding that the process itself is ‘rigged.’ It wouldn’t be long though before he would turn his ire towards Smith himself.
