Marjorie Taylor Greene: After Trump win, we should prosecute Jack Smith

Marjorie Taylor Greene There's an idea for the first item on Donald Trump's second term agenda: prosecuting the Special Counsel. Jack Smith.

“What Jack Smith is doing is completely illegal. He must be held accountable,” Greene said in a statement. appearance on Steve Bannon's “War Room” podcast on Thursday. “After our victory on November 5, Jack Smith must be held accountable.”

Smith's office presented damning pitch on Wednesday, unveiling some of the most extreme allegations and evidence of election interference against the former president. Smith has served as an independent special counsel since 2022 and was tasked with investigating Trump's election interference scheme and the secret documents case, the latter of which was ultimately dismissed by Trump-appointed Judge Eileen Cannon.

Greene's suggestion that Smith's appointment was illegal was used by Cannon as justification to throw out the case, although judges in other Trump cases, including D.C. Judge Tanya Chutkan, rejected that argument.

In the video, Greene also called for the prosecution of U.S. Attorney Matthew Graves, who prosecuted the Jan. 6 rioters. Greene filed articles of impeachment against Graves last year.

The comments also highlight a troubling view of prosecutorial independence during a possible second Trump term. The remarks come as Trump plans to return to the White House, detailing plans to install loyalists in a possible attempt to influence the investigation.

Trump as reported has already tried weaponizing the Justice Department in his first term, tasking it with investigating critics and confiscating reporters' phones and threatening to fire opponents.

But the Project 2025 proposals, as well as Trump's own remarks, indicate that the nominee would take an unprecedentedly active role in the Justice Department, filling the agency with employees who would be more willing than the old guard officials of his first term to pursue political opponents.