U.S. President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump arrive at Naval Station Norfolk Chambers Field, Virginia, U.S. October 5, 2025. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
The mysterious Jack Smith is emerging from the shadows that keep him.
The one-time special counsel who was tasked at looking into the worst attack on our Capitol since the War of 1812, has lately indicated he has a reputation to protect, even if thanks to the feeble man who appointed him, his protection of the United States of America came far too late.
Brazen Republicans led by the foolish, loudmouth, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), have indicated they want a word with Smith, and this just might be the break millions of us have been waiting for.
Be careful what you ask for, Jimbo, because you might just get it.
Our justice system’s inability and/or refusal to jail the people who masterminded the violent attack on our country on Jan. 6, 2021, is the single greatest failure of the rule of law I have witnessed in my lifetime, and I am NOT done with it.
Read that again.
NOT DONE WITH IT.
So you’re damn right I want the whole story told about what went down that gruesome January day, and who was behind it. I want a damn accounting of all the days that led up to it.
I want to know who was behind the attack on America, and I know for sure I am not alone.
Jan. 6, 2021, was the day we found out for sure that there isn’t a single terrible thing that white, male privilege can’t afford to buy in the United States of America. That’s the day we found out for sure, that there are millions of people who have it out for this country and what, and who, it is supposed to stand for.
This wasn’t a random deplorable act, it was far worse than that. It was the gruesome act of a racist, cultist political movement rooted in the notion of white power and spearheaded by an orange devil.
If we don’t know that for sure by now with troops in our streets, our White House being demolished, masked marauders sweeping innocent people away to God know where, and an entire party covering for an alleged child rapist, to hell with all of us.
We all watched the attack that terrible January afternoon. We know what we saw. Just as the orange devil knew what it is he saw through those empty, red eyes.
He loved it.
He loved it so much in fact, that while the attack was in full froth, he did nothing but sequester himself in front of a TV and spent three full hours rooting for its success.
We know this.
When it was finally clear America’s defenses would hold against his assault on Lady Liberty, he harrumphed in front of a camera on the White House lawn and told the enemies of America that he had invited to our Capitol to simply go home. Oh, and he told them that he loved them.
HE TOLD THEM THAT HE LOVED THEM.
Don’t you DARE tell us there should be no accounting for that terrible day — a day that followed a night which proved just how great America really could be, when Georgians went to the polls and voted a Black man and a Jewish man into office to give the Democrats control of the United States Senate.
Just 14 hours after freedom rang in Georgia, Trump and his Republicans’ attack on America commenced …
We will never forget this, even if that’s exactly what an entire corrupt, morally bankrupt political party would like us to do. They’d rather we didn’t learn from it, and that future generations are told some perverted version of the truth, instead of what really went down that day. Rewriting, or ignoring history has become just one of their their specialties. They ban books they don’t like, and the odious billionaires who foot their bills, have successfully bought off large chunks of our toothless, cowardice corporate media to protect us from the truth, instead of reporting it.
Truth is getting harder and harder to find these days, so it’s best we go with what we know, and believe what is right in front of our eyes.
So here’s some truth:
Trump and the people who stood up the violent attack on our country belong in jail for the rest of their miserable lives, and I swear to God I won’t stop typing thatEVER.
Our government is now run by the people who attacked us, because I am telling you again: There isn’t a single terrible thing that white privilege can’t afford.
So how did this happen …
My contempt for Joe Biden’s worthless attorney general, Merrick Garland, has been wrapped in many hard words the past four years, so here’s a just a few more — and directly this time:
Justice delayed, is justice denied. Worse, you knew that, sport. You were timid in the face of horror. Completely adequate. Weak. So now you hide after failing to protect the one thing you were charged with protecting. And that’s just pathetic.
No, my friends, I don’t feel much better, either, but some things need saying. This has been an extraordinarily sad chapter in our history, and Garland was on the wrong side of it.
Thanks to his dithering, or worse, calculated, dereliction of duty, Jack Smith came along far too late, but he has a story to tell, and facts to let loose, and everybody in the world needs to hear them.
I’ll end with words I typed seven weeks after last year’s terrible election, and this time wrap them in steel:
I don’t much care how this report on January 6th is released, or leaked, or served up cold on a platter, just as long as we see it. We paid for the damn investigation, and have a right to see just how close we are to losing everything right now, because of the criminal incompetence of Attorney General Merrick Garland the past three-plus years, and the incomprehensible stupidity and recklessness of so many American voters just 52 short days ago.
Everybody who watched that heinous attack on our country has a right to know who and what was behind it. You don’t get to just quit, wash your hands of the whole damn thing, and go off into a comfortable retirement in the countryside made possible by taxpayer money, while the nation you roundly ignored slowly burns.
I cannot stop being angrier than hell about this, and for the life of me, can’t believe more people who profess to love this country aren’t every bit as furious as I am.
So let’s hear what you have to say, Jack Smith. The entire world is waiting …
D. Earl Stephens is the author of “Toxic Tales: A Caustic Collection of Donald J. Trump’s Very Important Letters” and finished up a 30-year career in journalism as the Managing Editor of Stars and Stripes. You can find all his work here.