Former Special Counsel Jack Smith attempted to criminally prosecute then-former President Donald Trump in Florida for his alleged mishandling and illicit retention of classified documents, only for that high-profile case to be dismissed.

A detailed accounting of Smith's prosecutorial effort against Trump now suggests that the case was as good as lost for Smith as soon as he made the "insane" decision to press charges in Florida instead of Washington, D.C., according to the Daily Mail.

That claim, made in a new book set for release next week, unwittingly reveals how stacked the biased federal courts are, in that prosecutors felt certain of a conviction if the case was tried in Democrat-dominated D.C., as opposed to the possibility of having the case assigned to a Republican-appointed judge in Florida.

"Are you all f--king insane?"

The Washington Post published on Monday a piece that closely scrutinized how Special Counsel Smith's classified documents case against President Trump "collapsed" after the decision was made to file criminal charges in Florida instead of D.C.

Smith and some of his top lieutenants arrogantly believed that the case they'd built against Trump was so strong that it would result in a conviction no matter where it was tried, while other career prosecutors advised that a conviction would likely only be guaranteed in the nation's capital.

Included among those who believed that D.C., the venue where the alleged classified documents were taken from, was the safe bet to ensure a legal victory against Trump, was federal prosecutor David Raskin, who worried that the case might be assigned to a Republican-appointed judge in Florida.

When Raskin learned from a colleague that Smith had decided to file criminal charges in Florida, where the alleged mishandling crimes occurred, he reportedly decried, "Are you all f--king insane?"

As it turned out, Raskin's concerns were well-founded, as Smith's case faced a tough road and ultimate dismissal in the hands of U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, an appointee of Trump from his first term in office.

Arrogance led to the downfall of the case

That and more behind-the-scenes information were revealed in the new book, "Injustice: How Politics and Fear Vanquished America's Justice Department," by a pair of Washington Post reporters, which is set to be released next week.

According to the book, career prosecutors like Raskin, who were involved in the investigations of then-former President Trump, believed the possibility of the classified documents case being assigned to Judge Cannon in Florida was too great and even "existential" to the prosecution's hopes for success.

They were overruled by Smith and his top deputies, however, who initially miscalculated that there was only a 1 in 6 chance of Cannon getting the case -- in reality, that probability was closer to 1 in 3 -- and, regardless, firmly believed that they had sufficient evidence of wrongdoing to convince any judge and jury that a conviction was warranted.

In the end, Smith's calculations proved incorrect, as Cannon was assigned the case and later dismissed it after Trump's attorneys successfully argued that Smith had been improperly appointed to the special counsel role by Attorney General Merrick Garland.

Smith is a "criminal" who "should be in jail"

Meanwhile, following a separate probe of Smith's prosecutorial effort not conducted by overly obsequious Washington Post reporters, it has been revealed that Smith and others in the Biden-era Justice Department and FBI secretly engaged in a highly partisan investigation of Trump and other elected Republicans in Congress.

In reaction to a recent article exposing the "thin evidence" that underlined the so-called "Arctic Frost" probe that transformed into Smith's dual prosecutions against Trump, the president wrote on Truth Social, "He is a CRIMINAL AND SHOULD BE IN JAIL. A MAJOR LOWLIFE AND FAILURE. An ugly person, both inside and out! I beat him badly, and love watching him squirm now."