Special Criminal Jack Smith, Term Limits & Euro Men - Top 3 Takeaways January 23rd, 2026
Takeaway #1: Term limits
Yesterday’s House Judiciary Committee hearing with former Special Prosecutor Jack Smith was highly anticipated and extensively covered just as you would expect it would be based upon whether you sampled GSS news or say Fox News. For example, here’s a headline from NBC News yesterday: Former special counsel Smith warns Americans not to take the rule of law ‘for granted’. Right, because “Deranged” Jack Smith, who was determined in the federal court system to have been A) unlawfully appointed B) engaged in substantial prosecutorial overreach including illegal data gathering of members of congress (even if he had been legitimate) C) Related...had all of his attempted prosecutions against President Trump fail, yet he should be the moral authority reminding us not to take the rule of law for granted? Thanks, GSS News. Maybe you should work on communicating that message to say the anti-ICE protestors? Or is it that we shouldn’t take the rule of law for granted unless we’re talking about people who are illegally in this country?...or peddle fraudulent dossiers to attempt to undermine the President of the United States and to willfully interfere with presidential elections? Or spike evidence of criminal behavior and widespread corruption involving the Biden’s to protect them before a presidential election. Or where do we begin with the Clintons? But yeah – thank you to GSS News and Special Criminal Jack Smith for holding the moral high ground. It’s almost hard to put to words just how diabolical these people are and how flatly disinterested in intellectual honesty or consistency they happen to be. I really can’t imagine what it must be like to go to work every day without any regard for integrity or credibility. Also, they continue to prove the average IQ of the ever-dwindling consumers or their product. Anyway, the irony is that outside of the context in which it was said and the messenger – it's true that we shouldn’t take the rule of law for granted. And that segues with my one meaningful takeaway from Jack Smith during yesterday’s hearing. It was this... When asked if he had any regrets about his attempted prosecutions...his answer: If I have any regret, it would be not expressing enough appreciation for my staff, who worked so hard in these investigations. We followed the facts and the law. These people who worked for me sacrificed endlessly and have endured way too much for just doing their jobs. If anything, I wished I would have thanked them. That is what this man regrets? Not appropriately thanking deep state actors who engaged in prosecutorial overreach in an effort to imprison the former and future president of the United States? That says it all right there. Like most people, the concept of term limits for members of Congress is appealing to me. However, from a point of practicality,
Takeaway #2: I do believe we effectively already have them.
That’s what elections represent. Term limits. If voters truly wanted term limits, they have the ability to make that happen in every election cycle. But where term limits don’t exist, is within the federal bureaucracy. Often “career” federal employees in Washington, D.C. are held up as altruistic people serving the public’s interest. After all they’re not “political appointees”. However, the fact of the matter in Washington D.C., a population of people that votes for Democrats 94% of time, these career employees are the very deep state actors that have been instrumental in creating and peddling conspiracies against Trump while covering up conspiracies involving the Biden’s, Clinton’s, and Obamas. People overwhelmingly don’t like the idea of career politicians (83% of Americans would like Congressional term limits). But I’d suggest that the bigger issue is the career D.C. employee. That’s where we really could use term limits. It was just yesterday in the Q&A where I pointed out that AG Pam Bondi had terminated over 6,400 DOJ employees within her first year as she was busy routing out those who sought to undermine her department’s leadership. That’s a lot of uncovered problems (and likely not all of them) in just one federal department.
Takeaway #3: Man up
After traveling to Davos to meet with President Trump who is said to be close to brokering peace, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy took to the World Economic Forum Stage to deliver a message to the weak-kneed virtue signaling Europeans. Quoting Zelenskyy... Instead of taking the lead in defending freedom worldwide, especially when America’s focus shifts elsewhere, Europe looks lost trying to convince the U.S. president to change. Europe still feels more like geography, history, a tradition, not a real political force, not a great power. Some Europeans are really strong, it’s true, but many say ‘we must stand strong’, and they always want someone else to tell them how long they need to stand strong, preferably until the next election. Just last year here in Davos, I ended my speech with the words, ‘Europe needs to know how to defend itself.’ A year has passed and nothing has changed. We are still in a situation where I must say the same words. If you send 30 or 40 soldiers to Greenland, what is that for? What message does it send? What’s the message to Putin? To China? And even more importantly, what message does it send to Denmark? You either declare that European bases will protect the region from Russia and China .... or you risk not being taken seriously, because 30 or 40 soldiers will not protect anything. Bingo. All Europe has done for decades is virtue signal while relying on the United States for anything that actually matters. That’s also why Ukraine was invaded in the first place – (during a time when there was a weak president of the United States). And it’s also why it’s taking President Trump to broker peace between Russia and a European country. They’re weak and Zelenskyy appears to be fed up with the European virtue signaling...and called on them to man up...similarly in some ways to how Trump did.