Jack Smith Defends His Indefensible Political Witch-Hunt; Even CNN's Legal Analyst Admits Smith Is Guilty

C3 @C_3C_3

Want your blood to boil?

The Jack Smith Investigation cost taxpayers over $35 million.

$35,000,000

All based on a scam.

Targeting enemies.

With 65% of that $35million paying their salaries.

Jack and his team got rich for sedition.

Brandon Gill grilled Jack Smith on three points:

1, why he had sought the phone records of the incoming Speaker of the House, extending back a year, when he had just become speaker 16 days earlier. This makes it look very much look like a purely political witch-hunt, as Johnson did not have power to run interference for Trump before hand.

2, why he sought these phone records in defiance of a warning from a Biden attorney that doing so would be a violation of the Speech and Debate Clause. (A clause which says that no member of Congress shall be subject to legal process for any statement they make in Congress (later extended to cover any statement they make outside of Congress, so long as it's part of their work as a congressman.)

3, why he claimed that Mike Johnson was a "flight risk" when he told Johnson's phone company to hide the fact that his records had been granted to a third party. Jack Smith claimed that keeping this secret was necessary to make sure that Johnson did not take flight from prosecution.

He now admits that Johnson was no flight risk.

Benny Johnson
@bennyjohnson

If you watch one moment from Jack Smith's testimony in Congress today, watch him get reduced to a stuttering, stammering mess when confronted with his own LIES:

GILL: "The subpoena covered the time period between November 2020 and January 2021. Is that right?"

SMITH: "Uh, I'm sorry, sir, could you say that again?"

GILL: "We're not gonna delay like this."

Jack Smith is asking to have questions re-asked because each congresman only has five minutes total time, and he wants to waste as much Republican time as possible endlessly repeating and clarifying questions.

GILL: "How many days after Kevin McCarthy was sworn in as Speaker did you subpoena his records?

SMITH: "Uh, I don't recall, but those two things had nothing to do with one another."

GILL: "It was 16 days after becoming the highest ranking Republican in the House of Representatives, you subpoenaed his toll records. Do you agree that that might reasonably be considered a violation of the Speech or Debate Clause?"

SMITH: "Uh, I do not"

GILL: "At the time you, you secured those non-disclosure orders, was Speaker McCarthy a flight risk?"

SMITH: "He was not."

GILL: "He was not. Then why did your non-disclosure order refer to him as a flight risk? It says right here, 'The court finds reasonable grounds to believe that such disclosure will result in flight from prosecution.' You were using clearly false information to secure a non-disclosure order to hide from Speaker McCarthy and from the American people the fact that you were spying on his toll records."

Jack Smith on why he attempted to bring Trump to trial without giving him sufficient time to read the millions of pages of documents disclosed to him: Gee I was just looking out for Trump's right to a speedy trial. I'm a hero!

Jonathan Turley @JonathanTurley

3h

Rep. Onder just body slammed Smith on his effort to give Trump's legal team little time to read millions of pages of documents. Smith's response was that he wanted to be sure that Trump got a speedy trial, even though the Trump team was trying to slow down the trial to review his document dump...

Even CNN pointed out that Smith didn't even bother denying he rushed the case just to make a political impact:

If you remember, Jack Smith was improperly appointed, which means that the first eleven months of his term were conducted without proper authorization by the government, including the first three indictments of Trump.

Eleven months later, Merrick Garland attempted to correct this without admitting anything needed to be corrected. Jack Smith was appointed and sworn in a second time.

This Legal Eagle has a Biden-like memory loss about the details of this episode.

In one more bit of sedition by Jack Smith, he refused to answer questions about everyone's favorite phony-ass witness, Madison Cornbread.

Jordan confronted Smith with his own report that Madison Cornbread was a trash hearsay witness without any credibility, and so would not call her himself. No judge would accept her "testimony," he concluded.

But Smith refused to answer questions about why the so-called "J6 Committee" accepted this fraudulent testimony and based many of their conclusions on it.

He specifically refuses to say if he ever "confirmed" Madison Cornbread's tall tales.

posted by Ace at 12:10 PM

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