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"WASHINGTON (AP) Former Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith told lawmakers in a closed-door interview Wednesday that his team of investigators "developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt" that President Donald Trump had criminally conspired to overturn the results of the 2020 election, according to portions of his opening statement obtained by The Associated Press.

Smith also said investigators had accrued "powerful evidence" Trump broke the law by hoarding classified documents from his first term as president at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, and by obstructing government efforts to recover the records.

"I made my decisions in the investigation without regard to President Trump's political association, activities, beliefs, or candidacy in the 2024 election," Smith said. "We took actions based on what the facts and the law required the very lesson I learned early in my career as a prosecutor.

The committee's top Democrat, Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland, said the Republican majority "made an excellent decision" in not allowing Jack Smith to testify publicly "because had he done so, it would have been absolutely devastating to the president and all the president's men involved in the insurrectionary activities" of the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021."

Source: AP News Jack Smith tells lawmakers his team developed 'proof beyond a reasonable doubt' against Trump https://share.google/oifvloxhDFUnpR4W6

* I hope Trump and his personal DOJ is dumb enough to pursue the vindictive prosecution case against Jack Smith so that Jack can repeat this testimony and the results of his investigation on the witness stand in front of the jury. What ya figure the odds are that the DOJ has tampered with or destroyed the evidence Smith collected….and that will come out during trial. Oh, and Trump will be called as a defense witness with regard to Smith's Vindictive Prosecution defense.

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bearister said:

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I would like to wager the 401(k)s and homes of a few BI posters on Polymarket on the following outcome:

Trump's DOJ secures a criminal conviction of Jack Smith.

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concordtom said:

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This thread didn't go very far.
Since I've been properly preoccupied I didn't follow the story.

But maybe some of you did and can fill me in.



Sounds like a failed COUP to me!

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Sounds like even less evidence than was offered in the fake Russiagate impeachment hearing.

I feel sorry for people that take Maddow seriously.

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I feel sorry for people who have seen and heard the crimes with their own eyes and still make excuses or simply look the other way.

Absolutely pathetic!

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concordtom said:

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Vindman
Ukraine bribery scheme to get dirt on Joe Biden. Hold up weapons and Congress approved support for Ukraine against Russia.

Using foreign actors to impact domestic election.

Anyways, we know he's done this in many ways many times. MAGA dopes just use one word to try and cancel all the truth, and that is "Russiagate".

If they say that word, it signals an instruction to them, themselves, to "ignore what you've seen and heard with your own eyes and ears".

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The new McCarthyite campaign against Mamdani and the DSA https://t.co/xvEuFFfCSP

— Ken Klippenstein (NSPM-7 Compliant) (@kenklippenstein) February 10, 2026

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The timing of its vibe shift is not accidental, given that Russian disinformation no longer sells. And Mamdani is a new fruitful target for NCRI. As part of the national security panic over the Mayor and his views and affiliations, the Coolidge Reagan Foundation has already filed criminal referrals with the Department of Justice and the Manhattan DA, alleging his campaign accepted roughly $13,000 in "foreign" donationsa sum that includes a $500 contribution from his mother-in-law in Dubai.

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I've always thought the obsession with the threat of "disinformation" is a stupid moral panic masquerading as some defender of the public rather than what it is: an agent of censorship and control. The disinformation industry emerged in 2016 as a way for liberals and others traumatized by the election of Donald Trump to explain away his victory with the belief that Russian influence somehow played a determinative role.

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Over the past decade, disinformation has become Washington's catch-all explanation for what's wrong with everything from the decline of the mainstream media to youth disaffection, to the emergence of voices (like Mamdani's) that don't fit a world of sanctioned thought.

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