Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell ought to hire Jack Smith.

If Campbell has any hope of breaking Gov. Maura Healey’s astonishing record of suing Donald Trump one hundred times in four years, she will need someone like Smith at her side.

Smith may not know how to win, but he knows how to sue.

Smith is the Democrat-appointed special counsel who was supposed to persecute, prosecute, and imprison Trump so that he could not run for president in 2024.

Instead, Smith last week dropped two unique criminal cases against President-elect Trump that accused him of plotting to overthrow the 2020 election and of unlawfully retaining classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago home.

Unlike most “resistance” Democrats, Smith could read the writing on the wall. Trump won; Democrats lost. It will be Trump’s U.S. Justice Department now, not Joe Biden’s. The hunters could soon become the hunted.

Trump is not only the first former president to be charged with a crime, but he is also the first former president to have his home invaded by agents of his successor, Joe Biden

The dropped cases were part of an all-out effort by President Joe Biden’s politicized U.S. Justice Department to destroy Trump.

They not only wanted him off the ballot, but they wanted him broke and in prison.

They not only failed, they failed spectacularly.

Now, Smith will be lucky if Trump’s Justice Department does not destroy him and U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland, who appointed him.

What goes around tends to come around.

So, Smith, soon out of a job, will be looking for work. What better place to land than in Campbell’s office where he can continue his legal hounding of Trump, as Campbell has promised to do?

Campbell, something of a Healey protégé, is expected to follow in Healey’s footsteps, especially when it comes to opposing  Trump’s plan to deport criminal illegal immigrants as well as other migrants who entered the country illegally. They call them “residents.”

As a Harvard Law School graduate, Smith knows how to take the now-speedy Red Line from Harvard Square to Government Center and Campbell’s McCormack building office.

Campbell can use Smith to deliver on her promise to be “on the front lines” to protect the “fundamental rights and freedoms” of all Massachusetts “residents,” which, of course, include the “rights” of illegal immigrants.

“We’re prepared and ready to fight back on any plan to mass deport our people,” Campbell said on a WGBH interview. Nor will she shy away from protecting “the public safety of our residents.”

All this political and legal blather comes as Tom Homan, Trump’s newly nominated tough-talking border czar, vowed that the Trump administration will withhold federal funds from any state or jurisdiction that impedes Trump’s plan to deport criminal illegal immigrants and others.

Homan, former acting director of ICE (Immigration & Customs Enforcement) under Presidents Barack Obama and Trump said, “That is going to happen. I guarantee President Trump will do that.”

That promise appears to have caught Gov. Healey’s attention since she seems to have softened her resistance towards Trump by not joining a Democrat governor’s organization to “safeguard” democracy under Trump.

There are billions of dollars in federal funds at risk. And Trump appears willing to punish states — just as he is willing to punish countries — that do not abide by his administration’s policies.

It was easy for Healey as attorney general to sue Trump. She was not the governor and not seeking federal funding for education, transportation, education, public safety and so on.

Republican Charlie Baker was the governor then, and Healey had nothing at stake and nothing to lose. In fact, the lawsuits made her famous and endeared her to fellow Democrat progressives.

Now she is governor and has a lot at stake and a lot to lose if Campbell goes after Trump the way she did.

Odds are that Campbell will not break Healey’s four-year, one hundred Trump lawsuit record. She won’t even come close.

Peter Lucas is a veteran political reporter. Email him at: peter.lucas@bostonherald.com

Attorney General Andrea Campbell. (Nancy Lane/Boston Herald)
President-elect Donald Trump (AP file)