Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich told “America’s Newsroom” Thursday he believes Attorney General Merrick Garland is in danger of facing charges of his own for “directing” special counsel Jack Smith’s “disgustingly political” assault on former President Donald Trump.
Legal experts are criticizing Smith for his latest indictment against Trump for accusing the former president of spreading disinformation and other activities protected by the First Amendment.
Trump was indicted out of Smith’s investigation related to 2020 election interference and the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riot, and is facing charges such as conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding.
“The most jarring thing about this indictment is it basically just accuses him of disinformation — this is a disinformation indictment,” said legal scholar Jonathan Turley, a professor of public interest law at George Washington University and a Fox News contributor.
“It said [Trump] was spreading falsehoods, that [he] was undermining integrity of the election — that is all part of the First Amendment,” Turley said. “And I think that courts will look skeptically.”