The new book “Injustice: How Politics and Fear Vanquished America’s Justice Department” by Carol Leonnig and Aaron C. Davis reveals the biggest misstep in the Justice Department’s case against then-former-President Donald Trump: How Special Prosecutor Jack L. Smith chose to file the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case in Florida rather than Washington. Smith is quoted as saying, “I’m not worried about Florida.”

Smith wasn’t worried about Florida because he thought the facts, the evidence of the case, would be more important than where the case would be tried. 

Smith might not be aware of professional wrestling. If he was, he would have been smart enough to worry about Florida. If he was, he would have been smart enough to know the facts don’t matter as much as where the facts are presented, especially when the venue can suppress any facts. 

According to the book, the Justice Department thought there was a one in six chance the case would end up in U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon’s Florida courtroom. The case ended up in U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon’s Florida courtroom. Only in Florida.

If Smith, or anyone on his team understood professional wrestling, they would have stayed away from the state that helped permanently alter the media landscape and pave the way for technocrats to........

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