President Donald Trump boosted a pair of social media posts overnight calling for his political enemies to be thrown in jail.
FBI Director Kash Patel fired 10 more agents who had worked on the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case just days after Trump-appointed federal Judge Aileen Cannon permanently blocked a report on the investigation compiled by former special counsel Jack Smith, and the president shared an ally's post calling for his prosecution.
"Never forget that the Democrats arrested a US President, his lawyers, his campaign manager, his accountants, his media allies, and his valet over fake, made up stuff," posted widely followed X user Mila Joy. "Jack Smith MUST be held accountable or it will happen over and over again. Lock him up."
The 79-year-old president's Truth Social account shared a screenshot of that post Friday at 1:41 a.m. EST, about 12 hours after it was originally posted and one minute after boosting another supporter's post covering similar themes.
"People need to be in prison," posted the widely followed RandallCA account, which included an image of an electoral map from 2020 suggesting Trump should have won. "These are the states we know they stole."
Trump publicly called for Attorney General Pam Bondi to investigate Smith, whom he smeared as a "deranged animal," as the former special counsel testified last month before Congress about his investigations of Trump in the classified documents case and the election interference case – neither of which made it to trial before he was re-elected in 2024.