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The Guardian - US
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Margaret Sullivan

Special counsel Jack Smith made a gutsy, momentous decision in his prosecution of Donald Trump

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‘Jack Smith wants to cut straight to the chase,’ writes former US attorney Joyce Vance. Photograph: Michael Reynolds/EPA

Timing isn’t everything. But it certainly matters, and seldom more so than in special counsel Jack Smith’s prosecution of Donald Trump.

The former US president intends to use timing – delay, delay, delay – to avoid punishment for trying to overturn the 2020 election, which he lost to Joe Biden, and for fomenting a violent coup.

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