By Afshain Afzal

Special Counsel Mr Jack Smith charged former President Donald Trump in a revised indictment alleging that Trump conspired to overturn the results of the 2020 elections. Mr Smith’s allegations have rightly been rebutted as misleading submissions. It seems that he was briefed to leave the American taxpayers at an abyss to suppose whether former President Donald Trump orchestrated criminal conspiracies or not. The choice of time he was asked to choose was such to divide the long list of new voters who rejected the policies of Democrats in favour of pro-America Donald Trump’s policies.

It is projected that if Mr Smith won’t get a chance to bring the criminal case against Donald Trump to trial before the 2024 election but such is not the case. It is strange that the media is projecting Mr Smith’s case as his best when the allegations presented are weak lacking merit as well as are not constitutionally sustainable. Mr Smith also presented his arguments for why Trump is not immune from the charges, despite the Supreme Court’s ruling over that granted presidents broad immunity for official acts.

One should not deny that Donald Trump wanted to stay in power because he was being removed from power through fraud and coercion. The 6 January 2021 riots were planned by the agencies to divert attention and fail Donald Trump’s and his supporters' democratic norms. Mr Trump saved USA from losing the traditional democratic standards to call a spade a spade. If we recall, Trump supporters were joined by unidentified members of a force, which resorted to attacking the Capitol.

We should not link Mr Trump Twitter campaign to condemn Vice President Mike Pence, saying Pence lacked “courage” because Pence had resisted Trump’s pressure to intervene in the Electoral College certification. Trump’s telling her daughter Ivanka and son-in-law Jared Kushner: “It doesn’t matter if you won or lost the election. You still have to fight like hell” should not be linked by some new addition to the voters’ list who joined to create problem for the Trump as the remarks aimed to carryout a genuine effort for the struggle for upholding the high democratic tradition rather than winning the elections.

Mr Smith, since 2018 served as chief prosecutor in the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, Netherlands was a war crimes prosecutor and in November 2022 was appointed special counsel in the US Department of Justice (DOJ) as special counsel investigating Donald Trump. The popularity of Donald Trump is gaining strength as every day passes so the only option left was to create a controversy, which in the present case is not going to work. We cannot doubt Mr Smith’s integrity but the Department of Justice violated its own election rules. Nevertheless, let justice take its own course of action as everyone can be wrong, especially in the political environment that is presently prevailing in the US.