For years, daring to question the legitimacy of the endless legal attacks on Donald Trump was treated as heresy in the liberal media echo chamber. If you pointed out the obvious — that these indictments were politically motivated — you were branded a conspiracy theorist, an “election denier,” or some other lazy smear designed to shut down the conversation. The script was simple: Trump was guilty, and only dangerous people said otherwise.
But now, all of a sudden, it’s apparently safe for the left to admit what conservatives have known all along. The legal war on Trump wasn’t about justice. It was about politics. It was never about holding anyone accountable; it was about stopping one man from winning the presidency.
It failed. Big time.
And in a moment of rare honesty on CNN, the mask slipped. Not from a Republican or conservative pundit — but from a former top Democrat communications adviser.
“I think Democrats are learning, and I’m going to agree with you that Democrats cannot only be the party of resistance,” Lis Smith, a former communications adviser to Pete Buttigieg, said. “We cannot — like we resisted so hard between 2017 and 2024. We impeached the guy like we prosecuted him, convicted him of 34 felony counts. And guess what? He still got elected. So I don’t know how much harder we can resist right now.”
And there it is. The jig was up. Smith admitted everything that conservatives have been saying for years. And Scott Jennings totally called her out.
“Are you admitting that that the case against Trump in New York was part of the organized Democratic Party resistance?” He asked.
“It was a Democratic prosecutor, and at the time … I said I thought it was unwise," she replied. "I went on Fox News and said, I said it was—”
“Just to be clear,” Jennings began. “Everybody who now touts the 34 felonies, take it from Lis. This was not a real case. This was a plot to upend the presidential campaign."
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She didn’t deny it. “I just think it was a boneheaded move by Alvin Bragg. But it's not his first or last one.”
No one else disputed Jennings’ characterization either.
This isn’t some conservative spin or right-wing fantasy. This was a CNN panel openly discussing how the Trump indictment in New York was politically motivated, poorly thought out, and ultimately counterproductive. It’s an astonishing shift — because last year, any suggestion that the Bragg case was a political stunt would have been painted as a conspiracy theory, that Democrats were just hawkish on the rule of law.
But that was never the truth. They didn’t care about the rule of law; they weaponized it. They bent it, twisted it, and dressed it up as justice because they were desperate to stop Trump. And now that their plan failed, some of them are finally willing to admit what this always was: a partisan hit job disguised as a prosecution.
And now it’s not just Trump supporters saying it — it’s Democrats admitting it.
