Jack Smith will ram Trump’s witness attacks ‘down his throat’ at trial: legal expert

Donald Trump’s personal social media attacks will come back to bite him when he faces off against special counsel Jack Smith in his federal election interference trial next year, former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance predicts.

“Smith is going to ram Trump’s attacks on people involved in the cases against him, and especially witnesses, right back down his throat at trial,” Vance writes.

Vance, whose legal expertise has garnered the Obama-appointed prosecutor a prestigious standing with MSNBC, published Thursday her legal analysis of Smith’s pre-trial notice detailing evidence he intends to present in court.

In her substack “Civil Discourse,” Vance took a look at a lengthy section on Trump’s “Public Attacks on Individuals, Encouragement of Violence, and Knowledge of the Foreseeable Consequences” which she argues will play a key role in the case.

In this section, Smith argues Trump used social media to threaten perceived opponents, among them former Vice President Mike Pence, even after the 2020 election ended.

Smith writes, “The Government will introduce evidence of this conduct — including the defendant’s public endorsement and encouragement of violence — and further will elicit testimony from witnesses about the threats and harassment they received after the defendant targeted them in relation to the 2020 election.”

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This evidence backs up Smith’s case — in which Trump has pleaded not guilty — that the former president conspired to incite a mob to attack the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, Vance argues.

“They’ll show this thread of promoting violence continued beyond the end of the conspiracy," Vance writes. “If knowledge is the key to the case against Trump, Smith seems to have been amassing a good bit of it."