Cogito Ergo Non Serviam
Jack Smith Testifies in Public
Special Prosecutor Jack Smith investigated the January 6, 2021, insurrection and the classified documents hidden in Mar-a-Lago. He indicted the president in both cases, but those cases were withdrawn by the Trump Departmentof Justice. What he discovered is that Mr. Trump is guilty of several felonies. A few weeks ago, he testified to Congress behind closed doors. Yesterday, he did so publicly. In proper Congressional hearings, there is an attempt to find the truth. That is not what happened. Republican members engaged in grandstanding for the benefit of one person, Donald Trump. Hoping to catch Mr. Smith out on some mistake, they found nothing. Mr. Smith had the goods to put the president in prison.
The transcipt reads in part:
We followed the facts and we followed the law. Where that led us was to an indictment of an unprecedented criminal scheme to block the peaceful transfer of power.
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 Republican or a Democrat.
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.
The world saw the insurrection on live TV including the president inciting the mob on the Elipse by the White House. The photos of classified documents in a ballroom and bathroom at Mar-a-Lago are all over the internet. Mr. Trump, "you got some 'splainin' to do," as Desi would say to Lucy on "I Love Lucy."
The Republican members of the committee were hopeless. Congressman Brandon Gill accused the prosecutor of spying on the Speaker of the House, basing the accusation on the examination of the phone records of Kevin McCarthy, the man with the gavel that day. Examining phone records to see who called whom and when is Basic Investigation 101. Even TV shows have cops saying things like let's get the phone records. Police work is not espionage.
Mr. Trump is clearly bothered by all of this as his social media account was active throughout, which is a weird use of time by a sitting president in the middle of all the chaos of the office. That chaso has been made worse by the ineptitude of the MAGA government.
What the committee and the prosecutor did not discuss was anything in the second volume of his two-volume report. The first dealt with the insurrection, the second with the stolen documents. Judge Aileen Canon has put a seal on that because the co-defendants in the case were still facing trial, and the release might be prejudicial to their defense. The case, though, was dropped so they are not at risk. Her order expired on February 24. It will be interesting to see how she extends that, because she will protect the president even if it undermines the rule of law.
The president is a serial criminal, and with 34 New York State felony convictions, this journal fears no liable case. What Mr. Smith showed in his work is that the New York crimes are not an aberation but a habit.
The decline under the Trump administration continues to accelerate.
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