Well, if you were writing a remake of Frank Kappa's classic 1939 black and white film,

Mr. Smith goes to Washington, starring the great Jimmy Stewart, maybe the small town Mr. Smith

would be from would be in upstate New York, maybe Clay, New York, where Jack Smith is from.

And maybe your fictional Mr. Smith would be on the football team and baseball team at Liverpool High School like Jack Smith was.

And then go to college locally at the small, obscure State university of New York at Oneonta.

And then to send him on the road to Washington from such humble beginnings,

he would graduate from that small college, Summa Cum Laude, and go to Harvard Law School,

just like Jack Smith did. And then he'd go from Harvard Law School, just like Jack Smith did.

And then he'd go from Harvard Law School, like Jack Smith did, to the Manhattan District Attorney's Office, and then build a career as a federal prosecutor, always being paid dramatically less than his Harvard Law School classmates who chose money as their first objective after graduation

and became partners in the giant corporate law firms that support every wealth-generating move

that the billionaire class makes every day in this country.

Jack Smith's choices were the choices of movie heroes.

Jack Smith was Harvard, his Harvard Law School classmates,

he had classmates there who cannot comprehend a career spent living on government salaries.

For what?

Justice would be the answer to that question in the movie version

of Mr. Smith goes to Washington. But that's not what happened in the real story of Jack Smith

going back to Washington as the special prosecutor investigating then former president Donald Trump.

The first former president to become a federal criminal defendant.

Donald Trump was also the second former president to become a federal criminal defendant

when Jack Smith brought the second of two indictments against Donald Trump in sequence.

First, for the illegal possession of classified

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