Former Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith told lawmakers in a closed-door interview Wednesday that his team of investigators “developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt” that President Donald Trumphad criminally conspired to over the results of the 2020 election…

…Several Democrats who emerged from Smith’s interview said they could understand why Republicans did not want an open hearing based on the damaging testimony about Trump they said Smith offered.

The committee’s top Democrat, Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland, said the Republican majority “made an excellent decision” in not allowing Jack Smith to testify publicly “because had he done so, it would have been absolutely devastating to the president and all the president’s men involved in the insurrectionary activities” of the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021…

  • flamiera@kbin.melroy.org
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    2 days ago

    Why are we still on 2020?

    Why aren’t we focusing on what he’s doing NOW and for the past few months?

    And who’s going to impeach him when he’s probably going to be protected by a Republican majority?

    This is all a nothingburger.

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      2 days ago

      That is sort of their strategy. Every day is a new scandal, so why are you still thinking about what happened yesterday?

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      because this is researched, ready, has worked its way some of the way through courts, has strategy, etc

      something new starts from scratch

      pivoting all over the place is the point of the tactic: doing so many bad things that there’s nowhere for the opposition to focus