Former special counsel Jack Smith did not invoke his Fifth Amendment rights during eight hours of testimony Wednesday behind closed doors to the House Judiciary Committee, the panel’s chairman said.
“He did not take the Fifth like some of his deputies did,” Jim Jordan, an Ohio Republican, said on Fox News on Thursday.
Smith defended both of his investigations into Donald Trump, telling members that he charged Trump regardless of his political party affiliation. Smith and his attorneys have previously said that he wanted the opportunity to correct mischaracterizations about his investigations.
Why would he? Nothing to hide, etc.
As the prosecutor during a nonfascist stint of the government, he was doing his actual job. That sounds ludicrous to these fascist weasels, but weirdly, he wasn’t doing politics. He was a prosecutor for The Hague, IIRC. A by-the-book career man. He literally has nothing to hide here.
It’s so annoying that so many people think everything is intrigue and spycraft when most government jobs are very boring just do-your-job monotony. Stop thinking everything is like movies and learn some real life shit, please. The world is far more boring than you think.
Nothing to hide
This is a bad way to think about people exercising their rights.
Taking the fifth doesn’t mean you have something to hide. It simply means that you don’t know if it could possibly incriminate you.
I strongly suggest everybody in America watch this video which is mostly about not talking to police, but the same reasons apply to testimony.
For example, sometimes even completely innocent seeming statements, such as your truthfully saying where you were, can be used to convict you of a crime that you didn’t commit. You had “nothing to hide”, but you should have exercised your rights anyways.
Since you don’t know ahead of time which statements may be incriminating, you have to be extremely prepared if you want to guarantee that you don’t need to take the fifth in front of a place like the House Judiciary Committee, where you are answering questions from politicians who have agendas.
Yeah, the reason I referenced the ‘nothing to hide’ thing was because he’s a lawman, and that’s a lawman saying.
I agree with you.
This seems like a headline that should only need to exist in the opposite case.
“He did not take the Fifth like some of his deputies did,”
I think this is the point. Smith told his deputies to do whatever they felt was necessary to protect themselves because he wants to be fully accountability for the investigation and his team. That sort of conviction is sadly rare these days… maybe even newsworthy.
Trump would do the same for his peo…
Is he running away?
Of course not! He’s waddling away.
I would say he pooped his pants in fear, but it probably just was a regular pant pooping
Hard to tell what’s new when there’s already more skid marks than a formula one track.
Probably because nothing that he did was incriminating because he didn’t commit any crimes and given that he is likely a better lawyer than anyone in that room, I think he is probably right about that.
