Gregg Nunziata: Hatch Act Complaint Against Jack Smith is “Astonishingly Flimsy”

Gregg Nunziata was quoted in Deseret News responding to the newly launched Office of Special Counsel investigation into former Special Counsel Jack Smith. The probe, initiated at the request of Senator Tom Cotton, alleges that Smith violated the Hatch Act by accelerating legal proceedings against former President Trump ahead of the 2024 election.

In the piece, Nunziata said there is no evidence to suggest that Smith’s efforts to investigate Trump violated the Hatch Act:

‘This complaint is astonishingly flimsy,’ Nunziata told the Deseret News. ‘Whatever one thinks about the merits of Jack Smith’s case, or his legal strategies, there’s no question that he was pursuing a duly authorized government investigation into serious allegations of wrongdoing.’

In many ways Smith was put in a difficult situation because every move by the government in its prosecution of a former president running for reelection could be interpreted as impacting his political future, Nunziata said.

Some of Smith’s prosecutorial decisions appear unusual only because the cases were totally unprecedented, according to Nunziata, who pointed out that several factors of the trial timelines actually worked out in Trump’s favor.

Instead of ending a cycle of lawfare and overreach, Nunziata said the Office of Special Counsel’s investigation appears to be just one more instance of using political institutions to punish perceived enemies of the president.

‘I think that we’re seeing the weaponization of government against political opponents by the Trump administration in ways we’ve never seen in our history,’ Nunziata said.

Read the full piece here.