Jack Smith shows his limitless capacity for unaware irony in his latest pleading to the court regarding Donald Trump.

Smith is worried that Trump might “inject politics” into the proceedings. He needn't be—he made damn sure from the get-go that politics were front and center in the proceedings, including staging the trial just before Super Tuesday.

Smith is also seeking to have the court disallow Trump's claims of ballot fraud as a defense. There are two problems with this: 1) such claims are inherently a question of fact, not law, and thus must be adjudicated by the jury; 2) the essential element of Smith's case is that Trump presumably knew such claims were false—which again makes the claims a matter for the jury.

Smith would not be worried about Trump's possible defense strategies if his case was airtight. Once again Smith's maneuvers suggest his case against Trump is weak and getting weaker.