'Suggestive' Jack Smith filings hint at even more Trump crimes: report

The Daily Beast's Jose Pagliery has flagged some recent court filings by special counsel Jack Smith that he describes as "awfully suggestive" of other crimes committed by former President Donald Trump.

Specifically, the filings in question list crimes that Trump could theoretically get away with were his argument about presidential immunity to be upheld by courts, including "accepting a bribe, ordering an FBI director to fake evidence against a political foe, ordering the military to murder critics, and even selling nuclear secrets to a foreign enemy."

While Trump has not been charged with any of those crimes, Pagliery finds the specificity of Smith's hypotheticals difficult to ignore.

"Smith’s prosecution team has been incredibly tight-lipped in the run-up to trial, forcing journalists to rely almost entirely on the steady stream of court documents in the case — but leaving the curious crowd of onlookers reading the tea leaves and trying to make sense of hints and innuendo," he writes.

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Pagliery also notes that Trump's attorneys have shrugged off Smith's hypotheticals and have said that his argument for presidential immunity would not apply to such scenarios, all of which leads Pagliery to speculate they may be walking into a trap.

"In distinguishing between Smith’s examples and Trump’s actions, defense lawyers also cornered themselves—making clear that if Trump actually did any of Smith’s 'lurid' hypotheticals, there’s no way his official position would save him," he writes.