Former Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith told lawmakers in a closed-door interview on 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.
He also said investigators had accrued “powerful evidence” that 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.”
There are some comments in my history listing “cancelled elections” as one of the important reasons to vote against Trump, back before this whole thing happened.
My overall point here is that if anyone was thinking that refusing to vote for Kamala Harris was a winning strategy to “push the Democrats to the left,” they got it catastrophically backwards (and yes actually the fact that we might not even really have elections going forward depending on how things go as a really important reason why).