{"id":22622,"date":"2026-07-09T02:31:36","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T02:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=22622"},"modified":"2026-07-09T02:31:36","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T02:31:36","slug":"jack-smith-brian-driscoll-on-weaponizing-justice-the-weekly-show-with-jon-stewart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=22622","title":{"rendered":"Jack Smith &amp; Brian Driscoll On Weaponizing Justice | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Career prosecutor and FBI man say that these professional roles used to not notice much when a new president came in. Trump changed that. He used the justice system to protect his friends and attack his political opponents. Trump is corrupting justice and weakening US democracy.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jack Smith prosecuted Trump because&nbsp;the facts supported prosecution. If they didn&#8217;t support that, he wouldn&#8217;t have brought that. He&#8217;s a career prosecutor who cares about the law, not a partisan actor.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Jack Smith &amp; Brian Driscoll On Weaponizing Justice | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Lyk9_Ku9-Q8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Career prosecutor and FBI man say that these professional roles used to not notice much when a new president came in. Trump changed that. He used the justice system to protect his friends and attack his political opponents. Trump is corrupting justice and weakening US democracy. <\/p>\n<p>Jack Smith prosecuted Trump because the facts supported prosecution. If they didn&#8217;t support that, he wouldn&#8217;t have brought that. He&#8217;s a career prosecutor who cares about the law, not a partisan actor. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Lyk9_Ku9-Q8<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1104,431,818,660,221,915,201,170],"class_list":["post-22622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-authoritarianism","tag-democracy","tag-department-of-justice","tag-dictatorship","tag-donald-trump","tag-justice","tag-rule-of-law","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22622"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22623,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22622\/revisions\/22623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}