Former President Donald Trump is tearing into Special Counsel Jack Smith after he went around the normal procedures and asked the U.S. Supreme Court to decide whether the ex-president can invoke immunity in the 2020 election case.
Trump accused Smith of “election interference” in a Truth Social post following the special counsel’s decision to bypass the federal appeals court and go straight to the nation’s highest court to determine whether the former president can assert his complete immunity from federal prosecution for alleged criminal attempts to overturn the results of the last election, given that these actions occurred while he was in office.
“So Deranged Jack Smith, the Biden appointed ‘nut job’ prosecutor with a big record of loses because he goes too far, wants to RUSH, RUSH, RUSH to the Supreme Court on the important matter of Presidential Immunity, something which is so basic to America that it should be automatic,” Trump wrote on Wednesday.
