Donald
Trump’s
nominee
for
U.S.
Attorney
for
the
District
of
Wyoming,
Darin
Smith,
is
an
estate
planning
lawyer
who
has
never
tried
a
federal
or
state
case.
But
he
does
boast
the
most
important
qualification
—
at
least
for
this
Department
of
Justice
—
to
uphold
law
and
order:
he
participated
in
January
6.
While
Todd
Blanche
and
Kash
Patel
struggle
to
explain
how
Jim
Comey
building
a
seashell
display
on
vacation
amounts
to
a
true
threat
to
commit
political
violence,
they
are
moving
forward
with
installing
a
guy
who
marched
with
rioters
who
battered
a
cop
and
threatened
to
kill
Mike
Pence
as
the
top
federal
law
enforcement
official
in
Wyoming.
He’s
already
the
interim
U.S.
Attorney,
and
says
he
never
entered
the
Capitol
itself,
so
the
Senate
is
poised
to
move
ahead
and
make
this
permanent.
It’s
nice
to
hear
that
he
didn’t
personally
partake
in
smearing
feces
on
the
Capitol
walls
or
build
any
gallows,
but
he
did
show
up
for
a
protest
for
the
explicit
purpose
of
disenfranchising
voters,
so…
still
not
great.
But
Smith
is
only
one
of
a
package
of
proposed
prosecutors.
Huffington
Post
explains:
Another
nominee
in
the
mix
is
Phillip
Williams,
who
is
up
for
a
U.S.
attorney
post
in
the
Northern
District
of
Alabama.
Like
Smith,
he’s
never
tried
a
criminal
case.
He
previously
criticized
federal
law
enforcement
for
having
“hunted
down”
Jan.
6
rioters,
and
accused
them
of
“prosecutorial
abuse,
many,
many
times
over.”
He
also
compared
their
prosecutions
to
the
Salem
witch
trials
of
the
late
1600s,
when
people
were
falsely
accused
of
witchcraft.
See,
now,
the
problem
with
that
comparison
is
that
we
only
had
rumors
about
what
Goody
Proctor
got
up
to,
but
WE
ALL
GOT
PICS
OF
THIS
SHIT:
by
Samuel
Corum/Getty
Images)
Not
to
mention
video
of
rioters
busting
through
gates
and
pummeling
police.
Rounding
out
a
trio
of
election
deniers
up
for
plum
assignments
is
former
GOP
congressman
Dan
Bishop,
slotted
for
the
a
U.S.
Attorney
post
in
North
Carolina.
He
was
also
at
the
Capitol
on
January
6,
but
on
the
inside,
voting
to
overturn
the
election
results
despite
the
lack
of
any
credible
evidence
that
the
results
weren’t
true
and
valid.
And,
of
course,
when
you
want
a
law
and
order
type,
you
obviously
want
someone
who
watched
a
mob
attack
the
building
threatening
to
murder
officials
and
then
goes
ahead
and
votes
to
validate
their
antics.
It’s
all
right
though,
because
Bishop
has
said
that
“the
left”
was
behind
January
6.
Which
must
be
news
to
Smith.
The
structural
problem
here
is
bigger
than
any
of
these
three
yo-yos
personally.
U.S.
Attorneys
wield
enormous
power
because
deciding
who
gets
prosecuted
with
the
full
force
of
the
federal
government,
and
how
aggressively,
is
the
whole
ball
game
for
many
defendants.
It’s
a
tremendous
amount
of
discretionary
power
in
the
hands
of
lawyers
better
suited
to
setting
up
trust
funds
than
running
a
prosecutorial
office.
And
attending
January
6
many
not
disqualify
someone
from
being
a
citizen
in
a
democracy,
but
it
absolutely
should
disqualify
them
from
passing
judgment
on
who
has
and
has
not
committed
a
crime.
The
Trump
administration
has
been
normalizing
these
bottom
of
the
barrel
picks
for
over
a
year.
From
the
early
days
of
January
6
fluffer
Ed
Martin
through
the
whole
Lindsey
Halligan
debacle,
this
Justice
Department
prizes
loyalty
over
competence.
And
in
Trumpland
there’s
no
greater
badge
of
loyalty
than
January
6th
bona
fides.
Alas,
HuffPo
reports
that
GOP
Senators
“all
but
shrugged”
when
asked
about
the
nominees.
So,
congratulations
on
your
new
jobs,
guys!
Senate
Moves
Forward
With
3
Wildly
Unfit
Nominees
To
Be
Trump’s
U.S.
Attorneys
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