{"id":96684,"date":"2026-07-03T12:42:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T12:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/ignatius-jack-smith-is-not-a-defeated-guy-not-a-snarling-anti-trump-guy-that-weve-been-led-to-believe\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T12:42:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T12:42:11","slug":"ignatius-jack-smith-is-not-a-defeated-guy-not-a-snarling-anti-trump-guy-that-weve-been-led-to-believe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/ignatius-jack-smith-is-not-a-defeated-guy-not-a-snarling-anti-trump-guy-that-weve-been-led-to-believe\/","title":{"rendered":"Ignatius: Jack Smith Is Not A Defeated Guy, &#8220;Not A Snarling, Anti-Trump Guy That We&#8217;ve Been Led To Believe&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> On Friday&#8217;s &#8220;Morning Joe,&#8221; &#8220;Washington Post&#8221; associate editor David Ignatius reacts to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yvn9RQvxFdk\">MS NOW host Nicolle Wallace&#8217;s interview with former special counsel Jack Smith<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>DAVID IGNATIUS: Eugene, I had the same feeling listening to Jack Smith. I was reminded this is a career prosecutor. He&#8217;s talking about how to rehabilitate, how to rebuild the Justice Department.  He&#8217;s talking about the career attorneys who are still there trying to do their jobs. He says, I was for five years the head of the public integrity section prosecuting Republicans, Democrats, everybody. I stand for, he&#8217;s in effect telling us, the rule of law and we&#8217;re gonna rebuild that.  He&#8217;s not a defeated guy. He&#8217;s facing enormous pressure himself, but his thoughts, you know, we&#8217;re with his colleagues, we&#8217;re with the country, we&#8217;re with the rule of law. So, Jonathan, you know, that interview is pretty powerful, but I think we got a sense of who Jack Smith is in his comments under pressure.  That&#8217;s pretty interesting. This is not a snarling, anti-Trump guy that we&#8217;ve been led to believe. This is a career public prosecutor trying to do his job.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2026\/07\/03\/ignatius_jack_smith_is_not_a_defeated_guy_not_a_snarling_anti-trump_guy_that_weve_been_led_to_believe.html\">RealClearPolitics Videos<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday&#8217;s &#8220;Morning Joe,&#8221; &#8220;Washington Post&#8221; associate editor David Ignatius reacts to MS NOW host Nicolle Wallace&#8217;s interview with former special counsel Jack Smith. DAVID IGNATIUS: Eugene, I had the same feeling listening to Jack Smith. I was reminded this is a career prosecutor. He&#8217;s talking about how to rehabilitate, how to rebuild the Justice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":96685,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[7009,1683,1295,9870,23282,2230,2345,29768,13017],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96684"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}