If you ever needed proof that the Deep State isn't just a conspiracy theory but an actual operating philosophy, here it is: Jack Smith's prosecutors and the FBI didn't just try to take down President Trump before the 2024 election — they built a filing system to try again after he leaves office. They literally warehoused the evidence and set a calendar reminder for 2030.
That's not justice. That's a vendetta with a retention schedule.
According to a bombshell report from Just The News by John Solomon and Jerry Dunleavy, internal memos reveal that Smith's deputy, J.P. Cooney, worked with the FBI to ensure that all evidence from the so-called "Arctic Frost" investigation — the election interference case against Trump — would be preserved until at least February 1, 2030. Why that date? Because that's after Trump's second term ends. Subtle, right?
Cooney's January 8, 2025 memo is a masterpiece of bureaucratic scheming. He wrote that "under the circumstances, and in accordance with the litigation hold requiring the preservation of materials related to the SCO's work, the SCO concurs with FBI retaining evidence in the Arctic Frost Investigation/SCO Election Interference Investigation." Translation: we lost, but we're keeping the ammo.
And it gets better. When the Special Counsel's Office dismissed the charges against Trump on November 25, 2024, they did it "without prejudice" — legal speak for "we can come back anytime we want." Judge Tanya Chutkan, an Obama appointee, cited the Office of Legal Counsel opinion that a sitting president can't be prosecuted. Not that he was innocent. Not that the case was garbage. Just that they had to wait.
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Cooney — who, by the way, is now running for Congress as a Democrat in Virginia, because of course he is — made sure to spell out in his memo that the dismissal "was not based on the merits of the prosecution, which the SCO stands behind." He even added this little gem: "I note that Mr. Trump was charged with participating in crimes with at least six co-conspirators." Just in case anyone forgot the narrative.
Jack Smith himself got in on the act. In a response dated January 7, 2025, Smith wrote: "The Department's view that the Constitution prohibits Mr. Trump's indictment and prosecution while he is in office is categorical and does not turn on the gravity of the crimes charged, the strength of the Government's proof, or the merits of the prosecution — all of which the Office stands fully behind." Read that again. He's saying: we totally could have nailed him, we just weren't allowed to. Yet.
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche — who used to be Trump's defense lawyer and knows exactly how this game works — fired back, noting that "Courts in Florida and the District of Columbia have now dismissed both of Jack Smith's failed cases against President Trump" and called Smith's final report an attempt to "disseminate an extrajudicial 'Final Report' to perpetuate his false and discredited accusations."
Former U.S. Attorney Bud Cummins, who served in the Eastern District of Arkansas, nailed it perfectly: "A prosecutor's job is to gather facts discreetly, apply the law fairly, and decide whether a case should be brought. If the case cannot or should not be prosecuted, the prosecutor should close the file — not write a political narrative, preserve a roadmap, and leave behind a prosecution kit for future use."
That's exactly what happened. They built a prosecution kit. The FBI's own documents show they maintained evidence custody under their Field Evidence Management Policy Guide, with a freeze list and litigation hold that extended through June 2030 at the earliest. It wasn't until September 30, 2025, that the FBI indicated Acting Director Daniel J. Bongino and Attorney General Pamela Bondi had finally approved closing the investigation for good.
Cummins summed up the whole rotten scheme: "The Jack Smith model turns prosecutorial discretion upside down: When the courtroom is unavailable, the report becomes the weapon. That is not neutral law enforcement; it is yet another in a long line of blows to the credibility of the Department of Justice."
FBI Director Kash Patel wasn't having it either. "The American people deserve to know how this egregious weaponization of power to target political opponents and President Trump happened inside an institution meant to protect them," Patel said. "We shut down the weaponized CR-15 squad, and we are going to keep following the facts until there is full accountability."
Let's be honest about what this was. Jack Smith was appointed special counsel in November 2022. He raided Mar-a-Lago in August 2022. He indicted Trump in August 2023 and filed superseding charges in August 2024 — right in the middle of an election. When Trump won on November 5, 2024, and was inaugurated on January 20, 2025, they didn't accept the verdict. They pickled the evidence and set a timer.
These people didn't want justice. They wanted a permanent prosecution machine that runs regardless of what the voters decide. And now that it's been exposed, every single American should be asking: who else are they doing this to?
