{"id":2377703,"date":"2024-12-08T13:38:57","date_gmt":"2024-12-08T18:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-leaves-biden-jack-smith-prosecution-to-bondi-and-patel-disgrace-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-12-08T13:40:00","modified_gmt":"2024-12-08T18:40:00","slug":"trump-leaves-biden-jack-smith-prosecution-to-bondi-and-patel-disgrace-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-leaves-biden-jack-smith-prosecution-to-bondi-and-patel-disgrace-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump leaves Biden, Jack Smith prosecution to Bondi and Patel: \u2018Disgrace\u2019 &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"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\">28<\/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%2Ftrump-leaves-biden-jack-smith-prosecution-to-bondi-and-patel-disgrace-washington-examiner%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=2377703&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>The article discusses President-elect Donald Trump&#8217;s response to the \u2062<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kari-lake-files-new-election-appeal-to-arizona-supreme-court\/\" title=\"Kari Lake appeals election to AZ Supreme Court.\">legal \u200cchallenges<\/a> he faces, specifically\u200d in relation to \u200bPresident Joe Biden and special counsel Jack Smith. Trump has chosen not to commit to pursuing legal retaliation against Biden or\u2062 Smith, following <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/seven-days-in-january-all-living-former-secretaries-of-defense-warn-trump-over-election-fight\/\" title=\"Seven Days in January? All Living Former Secretaries of Defense Warn Trump Over Election Fight\">recent developments<\/a> in which Smith dismissed cases against him concerning his actions on January 6, 2021, and his handling\u2064 of \u2064classified documents. this decision comes shortly after Trump secured victory over\u200d Vice President Kamala Harris \u200din the elections. The article also\u200b touches on \u200dthe controversy surrounding Smith&#8217;s \u2064<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/just-in-arizona-state-legislature-to-hold-public-hearing-on-election-integrity-on-monday-nov-30\/\" title=\"JUST IN: Arizona State Legislature to Hold Public Hearing on Election Integrity on Monday, Nov. 30\">legal actions<\/a>, labeled by some as politically motivated, \u2063and highlights that Trump avoided addressing whether he would engage in retaliatory legal actions during a\u2063 recent interview on\u2063 \u201cmeet the \u200cPress.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Trump leaves Biden, Jack Smith prosecution to Bondi and Patel: &lsquo;Disgrace&rsquo;<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1903538\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>President-elect <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Donald Trump<\/a> refused to <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">pledge prosecutorial vengeance<\/a> against President <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/jack-smith\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Joe Biden<\/a> and special counsel <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/jack-smith\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Jack Smith<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Less than three weeks after Trump bested Vice President Kamala Harris in the Nov. 5 elections,&nbsp;Smith&nbsp;dismissed his case that centered on Trump&rsquo;s actions on January 6, 2021, and his case of Trump&rsquo;s handling of classified documents. Smith&nbsp;faced accusations of political lawfare online after his filing, but Trump skirted a question on <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/meet-the-press\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Meet the Press<\/a><\/em>  Sunday about whether he&rsquo;d retaliate with lawfare.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/defense\/3220510\/how-trump-could-impact-pentagon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><strong>HOW TRUMP COULD IMPACT THE PENTAGON<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">President-elect Donald Trump says he will not direct Pam Bondi or Kash Patel to go after President Joe Biden or Jack Smith, but it&rsquo;s their decision. <\/p>\n<p>PRES.-ELECT DONALD TRUMP:<br \/>I will say this, no, I&#8217;m not doing that unless I find something that I think is reasonable, but that&#8217;s&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HaeJgJr4xE\">pic.twitter.com\/HaeJgJr4xE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Meet the Press (@MeetThePress) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MeetThePress\/status\/1865768063309693063?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 8, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>&ldquo;I will say this, no, I&rsquo;m not doing that unless I find something that I think is reasonable, but that&rsquo;s not going to be my decision,&rdquo; Trump said, instead pointing to his Attorney General appointee Pam Bondi and FBI Director appointee <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/Kash-Patel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Kash Patel<\/a>. &ldquo;That&rsquo;s going to be Pam Bondi&rsquo;s decision, and, to a different extent, Kash Patel, assuming they&rsquo;re both there, and I think they&rsquo;re both going to get approved. But I &mdash; I &mdash; you know, while you ask me that, what they&rsquo;ve done to me with weaponization is a disgrace.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/presidential\/3220431\/how-elon-musk-helped-trump-back-to-white-house\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><strong>HOW ELON MUSK HELPED WILL TRUMP BACK TO THE WHITE HOUSE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A fellow member of Trump&rsquo;s administration Mike Huckabee, soon to be the ambassador to Israel, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3253596\/huckabee-trump-doesnt-need-bidens-pardon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"agreed\">agreed<\/a> that &ldquo;the law is on his side&rdquo; and Trump will not need any extrajudicial help in pursuing acquittals. While some have suggested that President Joe Biden should pardon Trump, Huckabee disagreed and suggested Trump will prevail in the courts.<\/p>\n<p>Smith&nbsp;had attempted to speed up his cases against Trump and go to trial before this month&rsquo;s election. These cases, even though they occurred at the end of Trump&rsquo;s first term in 2020, weren&rsquo;t brought to light until after Trump announced his reelection campaign.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Trump is still convicted on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. Judge Juan Merchan opted to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/3238866\/judge-indefinitely-postpones-trump-new-york-sentencing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">indefinitely postpone<\/a>&nbsp;his sentencing since he won the Oval Office.<\/p>\n<p>A Supreme Court ruling granting Trump some&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/john-durhams-latest-indictment-reveals-part-of-story-behind-pee-tape\/\" title=\"John Durham&#039;s Latest Indictment Reveals Part of Story Behind &#039;Pee Tape&#039;\">presidential&#038;nbsp<\/a>;immunity&nbsp;prompted Trump&rsquo;s lawyers to call to dismiss the case of election interference against him in Georgia. Their filing has yet to be ruled on by the Court of Appeals. Trump pleaded not guilty to every charge against him.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1903538\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1903538\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump delegates Biden, Smith prosecution to Bondi and Patel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2631,"featured_media":2377704,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Donald-Trump.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3620,32463,3634],"class_list":["post-2377703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-biden","tag-jack-smith","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Donald-Trump.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2377703","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\/2631"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2377703"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2377703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2377707,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2377703\/revisions\/2377707"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2377704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2377703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2377703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2377703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}