A Republican lawmaker Thursday had an unexpected reaction after he asked former special counsel Jack Smith about President Donald Trump's threats. Rep. Ben Cline (R-VA) was questioning Smith during the House Judiciary Committee hearing — the first time Smith has testified publicly on the probes agai...

Jack Smith has stones.

  • billwashere@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    6 days ago

    Not that it will matter, but I’m glad all this stuff is in the open. Jack knows where all the bodies are buried.

    But determining the truth is not what the GOP wants. The exchanges were childish and misleading at best, or more correctly gaslighting and just plain mind numbingly ignorant and sycophantic. If there ever comes a reckoning, this will be a pillar of the evidence against them. I would be so happy if there is before I die but I’m not hopeful.

  • Optional@lemmy.world
    79·
    8 days ago

    Cline asked Smith if he was able to identify a witness who might have been intimidated by Trump — that’s when Smith set the record straight.

    “We had extremely thorough evidence that his statements were having an effect on the proceedings,” Smith said. “That is not permitted in any court of law in the United States.”

    Cline tried to push back and argue that he should have reconsidered the gag order. Smith had a sharp response to the suggestion.

    “Both courts upheld the orders, and it is not incumbent on a prosecutor to wait until someone gets killed before they move for an order to protect the proceedings,” Smith said.

  • RunningInRVA@lemmy.world
    52·
    8 days ago

    Jack Smith did everything by the book because he knew his present situation was a possible outcome. The incompetence that Trump, and by extension, the DOJ, have shown in prosecuting their enemies must be a huge concern for them as they consider going up against a formidable opponent like Smith, who has consistently shown time and again that he has his mother fucking shit in order.

    • AlexLost@lemmy.world
      4·
      6 days ago

      This is what most competent law enforcement and justice departments do and why “justice” takes time to cross all the Ts and dot the Is. The case falls apart if one bit is out of place. Unless you don’t actually care about justice or the rule of law and disregard all judgments but your own.

    • Atlas_@lemmy.world
      28·
      8 days ago

      Or y’know, he did everything by the book because he’s a good lawyer with good ethics?

    • sepi@piefed.socialEnglish
      9·
      8 days ago

      It’s not reading that is the problem. They actively want this. It’s not that “if they knew about this they would be mad”, it is that “they voted for the guy that is giving them what they want”. Maybe one day the difference will be understood by many, but today seems to not be that day.

      • LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        1·
        8 days ago

        Aside from the insane racism, what are magats getting out of this shit? Prices going up, jobs going in the toilet, our presence on the world stage is beyond in the toilet, and we’re starting to see what all the corruption and idiotic shit like doge has caused and is going to cause. Like, their lives are measurably worse as well. Not to mention, they are going to start dying of easily preventable shit like measles. Farmers are in deep shit, meat is expensive as shit. Idk, seems fucking had for everyone, so……

        • Seleni@lemmy.world
          4·
          8 days ago

          ‘True and proper order being restored’ and ‘those uppity Others finally getting their just desserts’. And they figure that if they have to suffer a bit for that, then so be it. You have to remember that these ‘Christian’ loonies all have a persecution complex, so for them a little suffering is seen as a good thing.

          • LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone
            2·
            7 days ago

            Oh, right. I forgot they are morons and that faux ‘news’ is selling them lies. ‘True and proper order’. Daily, multiple times a day the administration is doing shit that’s illegal and wielding the DOJ as weapon against political enemies, and really anyone who says it fires anything against the worlds most pathetic loser man baby.

            order? Laughable, if it wasn’t so horrifying

  • Nastybutler@lemmy.world
    26·
    8 days ago

    If Jack Smith had been in charge instead of Robert “Feckless” Mueller, maybe Teflon Don would have actually been removed by the Senate the first time he was impeached

    • grue@lemmy.world
      113·
      8 days ago

      You mean Robert “Conservative Traitor” Mueller, right?

      The only Mueller I remember was the one who entered the public spotlight in the first place by being nominated for SCOTUS specifically because he was so conservative that Obama figured not even Mitch McConnel could find an excuse to object to him.