“The decision to bring charges against President Trump was mine, but the basis for those charges rests entirely with President Trump and his actions,” Smith tells lawmakers early in his deposition.

He argues that his investigation, which was launched under President Joe Biden, “developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 election and to prevent the lawful transfer of power”.

He adds that his team “also developed powerful evidence that showed that President Trump willfully retained highly classified documents after he left office in January of 2021, storing them at his social club, including in a ballroom and a bathroom”.

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    Never forget how Merrick Garland and those who enabled him slow-walked all of this. They could have let Smith loose in the summer of 2024 but, oh Noes, the ‘perception!’ of it all. /s

    There may be a point, in hindsight, where inaction is viewed by history as complicity. Fuck all the enablers.

    Hell they’re doing it again with the DOJ/FBI’s blatant violation of the Epstein Files transparency act… talking about ‘writing up this, censuring that’ and the talk of allowing up to a full YEAR more to comply before impeaching Bondi. More slow-walking.

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        Oh, I didn’t mean to excuse or minimise in any way the GOP’s own failures and malice in all of this. They were/are certainly the primary ones responsible…

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          I figured you didn’t by the way you worded it. But please be aware that there are trolls that will blame the democrats no matter how evil something trump and/or the republicans did, It’s a distraction to what the original evil thing was. I’m calling it out when I see it, even if I don’t think you’re a troll or doing it to distract.

          To be clear, I’m not saying democrats are awesome and shitty free. But talking about the dems distracts from og shitty thing done (usually).

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    Luckily, I don’t think there’s a statute of limitations on Treason.

    The executive being immune is only a Supreme Court ruling, so it isn’t like it is set in stone…