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Belle of the Ranch

Let's talk about Jack Smith and who he is....

Belle of the Ranch

Belle of the Ranch

Society & Culture

4.91K Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2022

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Let's talk about Jack Smith and who he is....

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Well, howdy there internet people, let's bow again. So today we are going to talk about

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Jack Smith and who he is. This is a person who is going to be in the news a lot.

0:13.0

So let's just go ahead and run through his background

0:17.0

and kind of go from there.

0:20.0

When you have a new character enter the show, it's always nice to get a little bit of a

0:27.3

backstory.

0:28.3

First, I mean, Jack Smith, man, that's got to be hard.

0:34.5

Every person he meets has got to be like, yeah, sure you are,

0:37.6

and I'm Jim Doe.

0:40.7

Okay, Jack Smith grew up in New York.

0:44.4

Harvard Law, started a legal career with the New York District Attorney's Office after being in ADA

0:54.0

became, started working with the US Attorney's Office in Brooklyn.

1:00.0

So he's a Fed now.

1:02.0

There, So he's a fed now. There did a lot of high profile cases. Some you would definitely recognize.

1:10.0

After that, went to work for the ICC International Criminal Court.

1:16.8

Then in 2010, went to work with public integrity there at the Department of Justice, was Chief of Public Integrity

1:27.4

four or five years where they got a lot of politicians. He is not afraid to indict a politician.

1:39.9

Also got Jeffrey Sterling, who was a CIA guy who shared national defense information.

2:00.0

In 2015, became assistant United States attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee. And then in 2018 took an appointment at the Hague looking into the unpleasantness in Kosovo.

2:20.0

Did very well there, and it's a four-year appointment. Got a second on May 8th of this year, but now has the new appointment as Special Counsel.

2:31.0

So, you know, we talked about the two options, you know,

2:37.0

the two options, you know, protecting the institution of the presidency,

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