Jack Smith said publicly for the first time he had enough evidence to show President Trump broke the law in trying to overturn 2020 election results. 👉

Special Counsel Jack Smith told a House committee that President Donald Trump was the person most responsible for the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot. Speaking under oath, Smith said the attack did not happen in a vacuum but followed Trump’s repeated efforts to overturn the 2020 election results.
Smith’s testimony adds fresh weight to ongoing legal and political debates around accountability for the Capitol assault, as investigations continue to examine the president’s role before and during the deadly unrest.

Former special counsel Jack Smith explained the actions that led him to bring criminal charges against President Donald Trump for mishandling classified documents and attempting to overthrow the 2020 presidential election.

What Jack Smith’s work exposes is not just the scope of Trump’s criminality but the full architecture of the failure that allowed it to survive, because this isn’t about one man slipping through a crack, it’s about a system that proved structurally incapable of stopping a bad-faith authoritarian wrapped in lawyers, spectacle, grievance, and cult loyalty, a man who was never misunderstood, never persecuted, never a victim, but a serial abuser of power who learned in real time that accountability could be delayed, buried, neutralized, or broken, and now, with Smith testifying before Congress, the fog is gone and the record is clear: not rhetoric, not theory, not spin, but evidence, sworn testimony, documented facts showing a felonious, sexually abusive, authoritarian wannabe dictator who engaged in a criminal conspiracy to overturn an election, knowingly spread falsehoods to radicalize supporters, weaponized violence as leverage, coordinated pressure on Congress while police were being beaten, and then moved seamlessly into obstruction, document theft, national security recklessness, and systemic corruption, storing classified materials in bathrooms and ballrooms, lying, concealing, blocking recovery, and treating the law as an inconvenience instead of a boundary, and when indictments followed, they weren’t partisan revenge, they were the product of grand juries, evidence, and law, and when they were later dismissed after he clawed back power, that wasn’t exoneration, it was exposure, proof that the system bent instead of holding, that judges didn’t declare innocence, they revealed fragility, and now we see the full authoritarian pattern: prosecutors fired, investigators purged, reports buried, careers destroyed, transparency blocked, testimony obstructed, truth smeared, fear installed, not with jackboots but with bureaucratic erasure, not with gulags but with intimidation, because this is what impunity looks like when it metastasizes into governance, where lawlessness stops being an exception and becomes a method, where accountability failure doesn’t disappear but mutates, where an attempted coup becomes normalized power, and where unfinished justice doesn’t stay in courtrooms but moves outward into foreign policy, into manufactured crises, into escalation, spectacle, and domination, where the cost is no longer measured in filings and hearings but in instability, dollars, lives, and global damage, because when a president learns that evidence can be buried and crimes can be outlasted, he doesn’t learn restraint, he learns permission, and that permission carries forward into everything he touches.

Jack Smith is gonna grab Trump by the pussy. When you’re Special Councel they let you do it. It says so in the Bible.

— Michael Jochum, Not Just a Drummer: Reflections on Art, Politics, Dogs, and the Human Condition

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