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'Simply staggering': Eyes widen as Jack Smith blows the whistle on 'American Gestapo'
Power Uses the Law to Protect ItselfThe Story Beneath the SoundbiteJack Smith’s account is not mainly about his personal fear. It is about a sitting president who, by Smith’s telling, said he wanted to jail the prosecutor who investigated him, and then used the Justice Department to target the law firm Smith hired. That is the substance: institutional power reaching for retaliation against accountability.Who Actually Had PowerThe people with leverage here were not pundits, not viewers, and not the outraged users performing shock online. The power sat with Donald Trump and the Justice…
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