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(DIR) Post #B1rIxOCKHYzoReT2BM by Nonilex@masto.ai
2026-01-02T01:17:14Z
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Capitol “riot” 'does not happen' without #Trump, #JackSmith told #CongressThe #Jan6, 2021, #insurrection at the US Capitol “does not happen” without Donald Trump, former special counsel Jack Smith told lawmakers earlier this month in characterizing the Republican president as the “most culpable & most responsible person” in the #criminal #conspiracy to overturn the results of the 2020 election.#law #unfit https://apnews.com/article/trump-jack-smith-jan-6-congress-537fcb8673e385202c354a3e83897194
(DIR) Post #B1rJ9O1kk4btOJF5zk by Nonilex@masto.ai
2026-01-02T01:19:24Z
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The Republican-led #House #Judiciary Cmte released on Wednesday a transcript & video of a closed-door interview #JackSmith gave about 2 investigations of #Trump. The document shows how Smith during the course of a daylong deposition repeatedly defended the basis for pursuing indictments against Trump & vigorously rejected Republican suggestions that his investigations were politically motivated.transcript→ https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/2025-12/Smith-Depo-Transcript_Redacted-w-Errata.pdf#law #unfit #Congress #Jan6 #insurrection #criminal #conspiracy
(DIR) Post #B1rJQ5t3RNE23L8mGm by Nonilex@masto.ai
2026-01-02T01:22:25Z
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“The evidence here made clear that President Trump was by a large measure the most culpable & most responsible person in this #conspiracy. These #crimes were committed for his benefit. The attack that happened at the Capitol, part of this case, does not happen without him. The other co-conspirators were doing this for his benefit,” #JackSmith said, in reply to a question about whether his investigations were meant to prevent #Trump from reclaiming the presidency in 2024.#law #Jan6 #insurrection
(DIR) Post #B1rJssghasxbVw5cKu by Nonilex@masto.ai
2026-01-02T01:27:36Z
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“…I entirely disagree with any characterization that our work was in any way meant to hamper him in the presidential election,” he added.The Dec 17 deposition was conducted privately despite Smith’s request to testify publicly. The release of the transcript & video of the interview, so far Smith’s only appearance on the Hill since leaving his position last Jan, adds to the public understanding of the decision-making behind 2 of the most consequential DOJ investigations in recent history.#law
(DIR) Post #B1rK94VlOylmokh3g0 by Nonilex@masto.ai
2026-01-02T01:30:33Z
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#JackSmith repeatedly made clear his belief that the evidence gathered against #Trump was strong enough to sustain a #conviction. Part of the strength of the #Jan6 case, Smith said, was the extent to which it relied on the testimony of Trump allies & supporters who cooperated with the investigation. #law #unfit #Congress #insurrection #criminal #conspiracy 8 hour deposition video→ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lR-bhPzQYUE
(DIR) Post #B1rKPyHpnYKaR2EjSq by Nonilex@masto.ai
2026-01-02T01:33:00Z
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“We had an elector in Pennsylvania who is a former congressman, who was going to be an elector for President Trump, who said that what they were trying to do was an attempt to overthrow the government & illegal,” Smith said. “Our case was built on, frankly, #Republicans who put their allegiance to the country before the party.”#law #JackSmith #Trump #unfit #Congress #Jan6 #insurrection #criminal #conspiracy
(DIR) Post #B1rKSDCJKZVJG9imeW by Nonilex@masto.ai
2026-01-02T01:34:00Z
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Accounts from #Republicans willing to stand up against the falsehood that the election had been stolen “even though it could mean trouble for them” created what #JackSmith described as the “most powerful” evidence against #Trump.When it came to the Capitol “riot” itself, Smith said, the evidence showed that Trump “caused it & that he exploited it & that it was foreseeable to him.” #law #unfit #Congress #Jan6 #insurrection #criminal #conspiracy
(DIR) Post #B1rKedwhhu8Ph1Lhrs by Nonilex@masto.ai
2026-01-02T01:36:12Z
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Asked whether there was evidence that #Trump had instructed supporters to riot at the Capitol, #JackSmith said that Trump in the weeks leading to the #insurrection got “people to believe fraud claims that weren’t true.”“He made false statements to state legislatures, to his supporters in all sorts of contexts & was aware in the days leading up to Jan 6th that his supporters were angry when he invited them & then he directed them to the Capitol,” Smith said.#law #Jan6 #criminal #conspiracy
(DIR) Post #B1rKjbkHJdCgJfu8GG by Nonilex@masto.ai
2026-01-02T01:37:08Z
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“Now, once they were at the Capitol & once the attack on the Capitol happened, he refused to stop it. He instead issued a tweet that without question in my mind endangered the life of his own vice president,” he added. “And when the violence was going on, he had to be pushed repeatedly by his staff members to do anything to quell it.”#law #JackSmith #Trump #unfit #Congress #Jan6 #insurrection #criminal #conspiracy
(DIR) Post #B1rKwM6wksjxakaOH2 by Nonilex@masto.ai
2026-01-02T01:39:26Z
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Some of the deposition focused on #Republican anger at revelations that the Smith team had obtained, & analyzed, phone records of #GOP lawmakers who were in contact with #Trump on #Jan6. Smith defended the maneuver as lawful & by-the-book, & suggested that outrage over the tactic should be directed at Trump & not his team of prosecutors. [IOW don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time]#law #JackSmith #Congress #insurrection #criminal #conspiracy
(DIR) Post #B1rL11c8OEPFTAOsVc by Nonilex@masto.ai
2026-01-02T01:40:18Z
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“Well, I think who should be accountable for this is Donald Trump. These records are people, in the case of the senators, Donald Trump directed his co-conspirators to call these people to further delay the proceedings. He chose to do that,” Smith said. “If Donald Trump had chosen to call a number of Democratic senators, we would have gotten toll records for Democratic senators.”#law #JackSmith #Trump #unfit #Congress #Jan6 #insurrection #criminal #conspiracy
(DIR) Post #B1rL3z4UIep0S64bbs by CindyWeinstein@zirk.us
2026-01-02T01:40:48Z
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@Nonilex Was thinking a good drinking game would be to take a sip every time MAGA asked about "toll records."
(DIR) Post #B1rLF8Csfv7DyEJZ7w by Nonilex@masto.ai
2026-01-02T01:42:49Z
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The communications between #Trump & #Republican supporters in #Congress were an important component of the case, Smith said. He cited an interview his office did with #MarkMeadows in which Trump’s former chief of staff referenced that Rep. #JimJordan, an Ohio Republican & current chairman of the #House #Judiciary Committee, had been in touch with the White House on the afternoon of the “riot”.#law #JackSmith #Jan6 #insurrection #criminal #conspiracy
(DIR) Post #B1rLJslRW9S3WYkJoe by Nonilex@masto.ai
2026-01-02T01:43:43Z
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“And what I recall was Meadows stating that ‘I’ve never seen Jim Jordan scared of anything,’ & the fact that we were in this different situation now where people were scared really made it clear that what was going on at the Capitol could not be mistaken for anything other than what it was,” Smith said.#law #JackSmith #Trump #unfit #Congress #Jan6 #insurrection #criminal #conspiracy
(DIR) Post #B1rLTQuRw4Pc1vVs2q by GeePawHill@mastodon.social
2026-01-02T01:45:23Z
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@Nonilex I know a Republican who was a staffer on the committee. He has said, "You think it's bad, but if you haven't seen the evidence, you don't know the half of it."
(DIR) Post #B1rLV1ZH7rIa0vMrHk by Nonilex@masto.ai
2026-01-02T01:45:43Z
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Smith was also asked whether his team evaluated former White House aide #CassidyHutchinson’s explosive claim that #Trump that grabbed at the steering wheel of the presidential SUV when the Secret Service refused to let him go to the Capitol after a rally at the Ellipse on #Jan6, 2021.#law #JackSmith #Congress #insurrection #criminal #conspiracy
(DIR) Post #B1rLXw7toVwo0Qx3FA by Nonilex@masto.ai
2026-01-02T01:46:15Z
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Smith told lawmakers that investigators interviewed the officer who was in the car, “who said that President Trump was very angry & wanted to go to the Capitol,” but the officer’s version of events “was not the same as what Cassidy Hutchinson said she heard from somebody secondhand.”#law #JackSmith #Trump #unfit #Congress #Jan6 #insurrection #criminal #conspiracy
(DIR) Post #B1rLaAcqsQhhYOUieG by cdarwin@c.im
2026-01-02T01:46:37Z
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@Nonilex Capitol “riot” 'does not happen' without #Trump, #JackSmith told #Congress@mastoreaderio unroll please
(DIR) Post #B1rMB7fYpb8v6ENjRQ by bouriquet@mastodon.social
2026-01-02T01:53:16Z
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@Nonilex If you’re a lawmaker in Washington, you’re essentially an employee of the government, the people. Your phone records can be examined as needed for any purpose, any investigation.
(DIR) Post #B1sfLl7n5JKYeQKbaq by Nonilex@masto.ai
2026-01-02T17:02:51Z
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Just a reminder, #House #Republicans dumped this 8hr deposition & 255p transcript on NYE because they were trying to bury it. It didn’t do any of the things they wanted. It didn’t exonerate #Trump. It didn’t prove the cases were political witch hunts. It didn’t prove #JackSmith was a political operative or radical. If anything it proved the cases were justified & proper, that Trump was culpable & the #conspiracy was premeditated, & that Jack Smith is a paragon of integrity.#law #Jan6
(DIR) Post #B1sfTof1ozPlw0ihBA by DJ_2280@mastodon.social
2026-01-02T17:04:15Z
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@Nonilex AMEN you said it all
(DIR) Post #B1sg73Cng7TsL1E0Su by icastico@c.im
2026-01-02T17:11:22Z
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@Nonilex The 8hr video would be quite a slog, but I read the whole transcript yesterday. Really should be something local and nation print journalism does à deep dive on in the next couple of weeks.