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Gary J. Bass: What Jack Smith knows

It is always difficult and risky to prosecute national leaders with some popularity among their people.

BC-OPINION-BASS-JACK-SMITH-TRUMP-ART-NYTSF — Prosecutor Jack Smith, right, at the Kosovo Specialist Chambers court in The Hague, at the start of the first trial of Salih Mustafa, former commander in the Kosovo Liberation Army in 2021. (Robin Van Lonkhuijsen for The New York Times)