{"id":1948372,"date":"2023-06-15T16:45:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-15T20:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bob-mcdonnell-a-past-jack-smith-target-rips-overzealous-trump-prosecutor\/"},"modified":"2023-06-15T16:45:46","modified_gmt":"2023-06-15T20:45:46","slug":"bob-mcdonnell-a-past-jack-smith-target-rips-overzealous-trump-prosecutor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bob-mcdonnell-a-past-jack-smith-target-rips-overzealous-trump-prosecutor\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob McDonnell, a former target of Jack Smith, criticizes the &#8220;overzealous&#8221; Trump prosecutor."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbob-mcdonnell-a-past-jack-smith-target-rips-overzealous-trump-prosecutor%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1948372&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Former Virginia Republican Governor Bob McDonnell strongly criticized Jack Smith, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-doj-and-special-counsel-jack-smiths-sordid-history-of-weaponizing-the-espionage-act\/\" title=\"DOJ and Special Counsel Jack Smith's misuse of the Espionage Act\">special counsel prosecuting<\/a> former President Donald Trump in a documents case, speaking from personal experience.<\/p>\n<p>In a Wednesday interview with Newsmax, McDonnell expressed his belief that Smith is &#8220;overzealous and overaggressive,&#8221; stating that Smith prioritizes winning over doing what is right.<\/p>\n<p>Smith previously oversaw the Department of Justice&#8217;s public integrity unit, which secured a bribery and extortion conviction against McDonnell in a gifts case. However, the Supreme Court later overturned the conviction with an 8-0 decision in 2016. Smith&#8217;s record also includes an unsuccessful prosecution against former Senator John Edwards.<\/p>\n<p>McDonnell accused Smith of being &#8220;willing to extend the law to the point to get a win,&#8221; referencing Chief Justice John Roberts&#8217; opinion in McDonnell&#8217;s case, where he rejected the government&#8217;s broad interpretation of the federal bribery statute.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, Trump pleaded not guilty to 37 charges, including alleged violations of the Espionage Act and charges related to obstruction and making false statements.<\/p>\n<p>During an address to supporters at his New Jersey resort, Trump criticized Smith for running &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-fbi-raided-trump-because-hes-a-threat-to-the-deep-state\/\" title=\"The FBI Raided Trump Because He\u2019s A Threat To The Deep State\">political hit jobs<\/a>&#8221; and referred to him as a &#8220;thug.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Former Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell believes that Special Counsel Jack Smith has an &#8220;overzealous and over aggressive&#8221; approach, and that he &#8220;would rather win than get it right.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>WATCH: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6RNkBEwmBU\">https:\/\/t.co\/6RNkBEwmBU<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rSYGutAopk\">pic.twitter.com\/rSYGutAopk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NEWSMAX (@NEWSMAX) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NEWSMAX\/status\/1669038240308031488?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 14, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>McDonnell appreciated the support and emphasized that the jury&#8217;s composition will determine the impact of Trump&#8217;s verbal attacks on Smith. He also acknowledged that if the evidence in the indictment is proven, there may be criminal culpability.<\/p>\n<p><b data-stringify-type=\"bold\"><\/b><\/p>\n<p>After the indictment was unsealed, Smith expressed his desire for a &#8220;speedy trial&#8221; in the Trump case, emphasizing that the same laws apply to everyone and that the outcome of the investigation is determined by collecting facts.<\/p>\n<p>David Harbach, who played a prominent role in the cases against McDonnell and Edwards, spoke for the government during Trump&#8217;s arraignment, indicating that Smith has brought the &#8220;gang&#8221; back together, according to McDonnell.<\/p>\n<p>McDonnell also expressed concern about a potential motivation to win with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ivan-sascha-sheehan-opposition-protests-in-iran-look-to-the-future-not-the-past\/\" title=\"Ivan Sascha Sheehan: Opposition Protests in Iran Look to the Future, Not the Past\">high-profile political figure<\/a> in the midst of a campaign, rather than prioritizing the correct application of the law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Virginia Republican Governor Bob McDonnell criticized Jack Smith, the special counsel prosecuting ex-President Donald Trump in a documents case. McDonnell, drawing from personal experience, accused Smith of being excessively zealous and aggressive. Speaking to Newsmax, McDonnell expressed his views a day after Trump&#8217;s arraignment in Miami, stating that Smith &#8220;would benefit from toning it down.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1588,"featured_media":1948373,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[28752,9620,3763,7317,28751,6215,7608,4650,3634],"class_list":["post-1948372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-overzealous","tag-bob","tag-criticizes","tag-jack","tag-mcdonnell","tag-prosecutor","tag-smith","tag-target","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1948372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1588"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1948372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1948372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1948373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1948372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1948372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1948372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}