After all the work, all the hype, all the news reports, the speculation, the hope, the fear, in the end, the felon gets away with everything, evil has won out over good. Jack Smith has resigned from the Justice Department, apparently yesterday, Friday, January 11, 2025.
I have no doubt that there will be a litany of diaries posted and subsequent comments, all the speculation, lamentation, discussions, opinions, and the like, so I will keep this as brief as possible.
My own current circumstances are such that, if I don’t find a job and start working before the month (January 2025) I will lose my home. I have been unemployed for 34 weeks now, in addition to that, I had a call with my Academic Advisor this past Tuesday, and she told me that my priorities should be my home situation and my need of a paycheck, that as a World Campus student (Penn State online — “We ARE...”) I am not bound by the same restrictions as a student on-campus, that the adult learners such as myself are given more flexibility; so for now, I’ve also lost school. I look for jobs daily, and recently got SNAP (food stamps) benefits reinstated (for which I am grateful) but when things like this happen in the world, (the profoundly disappointing results of November’s election, SCOTUS granting the felon presidential immunity, no punishment for 34 unanimous guilty verdict convictions, no justice for the felon’s traitorous attempted coup on our nation’s capital, etc.) I find it even more difficult to hold on to the frayed thread of hope that I’m gripping with teeth. I have not listed all the loss I’ve experienced since 2023, but a short list includes, my sweet mommy for whom I was a full-time caregiver for ten years, the house we shared, two jobs, my uncle, and my precious little girl, my Pug, Skoshi. Although Mr. Smith quitting isn’t the straw that broke the camel’s back, it just adds to the heap.
You can read the article from the BBC.com website here.
I’m only pasted a small portion of the article here:
CBS reported in November that Mr Smith's resignation was expected as it would allow him to leave his post without being fired by Trump or the incoming president's attorney general.
His exit means he leaves without either of his criminal prosecutions of Trump seeing trial.
Earlier this week, US District Judge Aileen Cannon - who oversaw the classified documents case and controversially dismissed it last July - temporarily barred Mr Smith and Attorney General Merrick Garland from "releasing, sharing, or transmitting" the report about the case.
I just struggle with hanging on to hope in these times. I understand why Jack Smith resigned, he resigned before he got fired. But it just feels like the felon has won yet again.
