House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan declined to give Jack Smith a public hearing. Jordan denied Smith’s request for a public hearing. Instead, Smith testified privately before the committee, and only after this private testimony did Jordan give in to Smith’s wishes and the public outcry for an open hearing.
The way Republicans are going, Jordan probably wishes he had stuck to the original plan.
The Republicans’ mission is to make it appear as if Smith conducted a politically motivated investigation that violated the constitutional rights of Donald Trump and his co-conspirators.
The problem is that Trump and his co-conspirators lost their constitutional rights when they engaged in what Smith considered criminal activity in an attempt to overturn the 2020 election.
This small detail has not stopped Republicans from endlessly repeating false claims of “spying” and violations of constitutional rights.
Republicans are trying to make Smith look like a partisan out to get Trump, but it’s not working.
The problem for Republicans is that Trump is talking about the case against Trump and his evidence against the president.
Smith that he had Republican witnesses against Trump:
There were witnesses who I thought would be very strong witnesses, including, for example, the secretary of state in Georgia who told Donald Trump the truth, told him things he didn’t want to hear and alerted him to the fact that what he was saying was false. These were people who knew how the elections were going in these states, and I believe these are the types of witnesses, witnesses who are willing to tell the truth even if it will cost them a price in their lives.
My experience as a prosecutor for 30 years is that such witnesses are highly credible and jurors tend to believe such witnesses because they pay a price for telling the truth.
However, when Smith took on the lie that Trump continues to tell about the manipulation of the 2020 election, things really got bad for the president and his party.
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