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Former Special Counsel Jack Smith went scorched-earth against Donald Trump and indicated he had no regrets in his first public testimony about his criminal investigation into the president.
“I want to be clear, I stand by my decisions as special counsel, including the decision to bring charges against President Trump. Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in criminal activity,” Smith said in his opening statement.
He said that Trump “engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results and prevent the lawful transfer of power.”
Read the full story, [here](https://www.thedailybeast.com/jack-smith-goes-scorched-earth-on-criminal-trump/).
There’s no other way to go with this corrupt admin.
Every elected official should be going scorched earth on him at this point.
He’s ridiculously unfit for the job.
Jack Smith says that Trump is a criminal, and that’s good enough for me. It’s rather unfortunate that we have a treasonous, corrupt, criminal, grifter, liar and blowhard running the country, but there it is.
Hell, it’s about damn time. Jack Smith the hero of truth.
It will be fun to watch the white house spins this a jaded employee.
No quotes needed. He’s been found guilty.
If only Mueller had done this.
Trump openly brags about how his supporters are cool with him executing people in the streets. He brags about walking into women’s change rooms and sexually assaulting them. He openly suggested that people inject bleach to fight Covid. He was Jeffery Epstein’s long time “best friend” and he openly supports Ghislaine Maxwell, wishing her well in her human trafficking case. He even pardoned J6 rioters who went on to rape kids. The trump team thinks this is all great. They won’t care if he committed more crimes.
You know it’s serious when the daily beast headline isn’t exaggerating anything
This testimony is still ongoing and most certainly not “scorched earth”. He’s currently getting yelled at by a republican from California. This is a clear partisan back and forth. Democrats are on his side, and republicans yell at him and don’t let him talk.
All this brave man did was talk to a bunch of lame ducks.
Congress has been asleep or chicken shit to do anything.
SCOTUS is corrupted as fuck.
The American people aren’t getting the message because traditional media is unreliable as fuck and online contend coving this is so easy to buy that controlled by the tech bros.
I yearn for a time when we don’t use buzzword clickbaity phrases like scorched earth. It shows lack of critical thinking to parrot phrases even when applicable
Shame on all republicans and GOP representatives for using their time to try & villainize Smith to serve their daddy trump. They deserve no peace, no quarter, and to be impeached. The guardian of pedophile party deserves to never hold office again, screw all them- they are all hypocrites & baby back dicks
Fantastic – more of this please.
Jack Smith for president.
Is that what telling the truth is called now?
Trump is Putin & the GOP’s useful idiot.
Too bad most Americans have no idea that this is even ongoing.
Why is „criminal“ in quotes when Trump is a literal felon?
Raskin, once again, is the adult in the room.
Gill is a slimy POS. So is everyone else defaming Smith.
Am I the only one who finds it incredibly weird how fixated Republicans are on the phone records?
Yes, Jack Smith got your phone records. No, he didn’t tell a judge it was for *your* records. You’re not a protected class just because you’re a fucking politician.
So, judging by the Title, when did telling the truth become such a wrong thing to do.
Hey MAGA, imagine if Biden lost 2020 and had a group of thugs storm the Capitol at his behest to stop voting certification…..imagine NOTHING happening to him and he is allowed to run again in 2024 and WINS, and one of the world’s richest men helped him do it….
You’d all be melting down.
Wonder if Judge Cannon was watching?
Criminal, convicted criminal, convicted felon all work.
Grand juries in two separate districts reached this conclusion based on his actions, as alleged in the indictments they returned. Rather than accept his defeat in the 2020 election, President Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results and prevent the lawful transfer of power. After leaving office in January of ’21, President Trump illegally kept classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago social club, and repeatedly tried to obstruct justice to conceal his continued retention of those documents. Highly sensitive national security information was held in a ballroom and a bathroom.
As I testify before the committee today, I want to be clear. I stand by my decisions as special counsel, including the decision to bring charges against President Trump. Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in criminal activity. If asked whether to prosecute a former president based on the same facts today, I would do so regardless of whether that president was a Democrat or a Republican. No one, no one should be above the law in this country and the law required that he be held to account, so that is what I did. To have done otherwise, on the facts of these cases, would have been to shirk my duties as a prosecutor and as a public servant, of which I had no intention of doing.
I remain grateful for the counsel, judgment and advice of my team. President Trump has sought to seek revenge against career prosecutors, FBI agents, and support staff simply for having worked on these cases. To vilify and seek retribution against these people is wrong. Those dedicated public servants are the best of us, and it has been a privilege to serve with them. After nearly 30 years of public service, including in international settings, I have seen how the rule of law can erode. My fear is that we have seen the rule of law function in our country for so long that many of us have come to take it for granted. The rule of law is not self-executing. It depends on our collective commitment to apply it. It requires dedicated service on behalf of others, especially when that service is difficult and comes with costs. Our willingness to pay those costs is what tests and defines our commitment to the rule of law and to this wonderful country.
Go harder, Jack.
Make this man president
It isn’t scorched earth. It is an expert conclusion that the President committed crimes to get elected.
Democrats need to rapidly enact a project 2029. Expand the Supreme Court, Start the Nuremberg style proceedings for all who broke the law (hold them in Minneapolis ), reform ICE and Homeland security, rapidly remove all of Trumps cronies as fast as possible, purging the military officers including JAG of Trump political appointees, remove trumps name from all government buildings, Universal healthcare, reproductive freedom, affordable housing… They need to learn from Trump and “Flood the zone”.
But we will get a strongly worded letter and calls for bipartisanship
Listing facts and evidence is not going scorched earth.
Describing a sequence of events is not going scorched earth.
Calling a convicted criminal a criminal is not going scorched earth.
Have we really fallen so far as a species that listing things that happen and how they happened is enough for such bombastic headlines?
Shame on all of us if that is the case.
All of this being out there, with proof, yet somehow still being completely acceptable to so many politicians and voters is what’s wrong with this country. It’s not Trump, it’s these people.
Skip the snippet from an online news source, just go to c-span or c-spans youtube:
https://www.c-span.org/event/house-committee/former-special-counsel-jack-smith-testifies-on-trump-investigations/439618
https://www.youtube.com/live/JSBcgWejcWw
You can fast forward thru the elected fuckheads grandstanding, and focus on his testimony.
What are the chances he will file charges under the next administration?
Wild how just stating the facts is now going „scorched earth“.
Mr. Smith has not raised his voice much above a whisper this entire time. Just simply stating facts.
Scorched earth my ass.
The republicans in this hearing are so overtly complicit
wtf is criminal in quotes – that motherfucker is a convicted felon
It’s still wild to me just how far Trump went in breaking *very* serious laws, and how obvious it was to everyone.
And then we did… nothing. Sure, some folks like Jack Smith *tried* but it was too little, too late, and without the full support of the Biden administration.
Those investigations should have been priority #1 on day 1 of the Biden admin, with all hands on deck. Literally trying to *overthrow the US government* should not be something we take lightly and half-ass.
But here we are, with a man who tried to overthrow the government, while also breaking other laws and lying and stonewalling about them, and half the US voters said „yep, that’s the guy we want.“
Republican lies about Smith are not landing. They need to do something about their criminal leadership, pronto!
My idea of scorched earth is different from TheDailyBeast apparently… .
I bet he SLAMMED him and was OUTRAGED too like idgaf man, im tired of pointless posturing
This is not what „scorched earth“ means. This is ~~upholding~~ talking about upholding an individual to the law.
I fucking hate this timeline.