Jack Smith may be leaving behind his many, many prosecutorial persecutions of President-elect Donald Trump. But he leaves behind a trail of destruction.
To at least of his targets, he’s known as Barack Obama’s “enforcer.”
Steve Stockman, former congressman, spent years in jail due to a Smith-led prosecution — a prosecution that came curiously enough after Stockman launched an investigation into Obama.
“We started investigating Obama’s dealings with Iran and other circumstances that raised the ire of Obama,” Stockman says. “We did a lot of things [in Congress] to get him upset. The bottom line is Obama is very vindictive and Jack Smith is basically his enforcer.”
Trump, during his White House term, commuted Stockman’s sentence and he was released from prison early, serving three of a ten-year sentence. But his life today is far from normal. He can’t vote; he can’t own guns; he can’t even say for certain that Smith won’t one day mount another judicial attack against him. Two weeks before the election, in fact, Stockman says he received more threatening papers from the Department of Justice.
“Just two weeks before the election the DOJ issued papers trying to get me back in prison,” he says.
Then Trump won — and it all went away.
For now.
Stockman’s story is one that’s shared by many of Smith’s prosecutorial targets.
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