Former prosecutor issues 'stark warning about what is coming' in the next administration

Recent events have been clues to how Donald Trump's next administration will turn out, an ex-prosecutor said Wednesday.

Former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance wrote in her Substack blog about the failure to get Donald Trump's criminal cases to trial before the election. She then ponders why the Attorney General won't take steps to make the rest of special counsel Jack Smith's work public, especially as it relates to Trump's criminal documents case.

"Given the case’s inevitable fate, why won’t Merrick Garland just dismiss it now, so he can release Volume 2? Maybe he still will. There is little reason not to. Although there is grand jury and possibly classified information in the report that would need to be redacted, it would serve the truth-telling function of the criminal justice system," she wrote. "There will be no punishment for defendant Trump in the federal cases. He will not be deterred, not will others, by two failed prosecutions. He will not be incapacitated so he can do no further harm. So all that is left is releasing the report so the public can get some semblance of the facts, not conjecture, but evidence."

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The attorney added that it would be "uniquely ironic if the Special Counsel’s report on this case, alone, out of all of the special counsel matters—Mueller, Durham, Hur, Weiss, and so on—remained unreleased."

Vance goes on to summarize the situation as she sees it, before issuing her warning.

"Jack Smith didn’t get his cases to trial. Our democracy would be better off if he could have. A jury should have decided these cases. Ultimately, the Supreme Court and Judge Cannon will have much to answer for when we see what path a president who conflates politics and the rule of law puts the country on," she wrote. "It’s a stark warning about what is coming."

Vance then added:

"It has become popular for people to say, as they did in 2016, 'it won’t be as bad as everyone said.' I’ve heard so many variations on this. People who are counting on Trump’s ineptitude or Americans’ lack of willingness to go along with extreme measures like mass deportations," she wrote. "Then there was Pete Hegseth’s confirmation hearing to be Secretary of Defense today. If Jack Smith’s report is the past, it is the future."

Read the post here.