While Trump’s personal criminal lawyer Todd Blanche bobs and weaves, assuring senators with practiced lawyerly weasel words that he is no longer Trump’s personal criminal lawyer… “uh, excuse me, senator, I have to take this call from Mr. Trump…” MAGA is spraying its high-powered firehouse of cyclosporiasis full force.
Put that fucking liar and self-aggrandizing fraud Anthony Fauci on the stand, let him plead the Fifth over and over so we can’t get him for perjury as we let the country see how clearly guilty he is of being a lying, self-aggrandizing fraud. Look what he wrote in his personal diary! Like we couldn’t get our hands on it! Fauci had testified to Congress literally hundreds of times during his long term as head of the infectious disease unit at NIH. His opening remarks went into detail about why this session he was subpoenaed to attend, years after his retirement, was different.
This time it was purely political, a distracting partisan hate-fest as Trump implodes, to give FOX and the MAGAsphere endless talking points about what a lying, weaponizing dickhead Fauci was while he was nonchalantly killing a million Americans by ignoring Trump’s wise advice about not testing for Covid in order for the numbers not to keep going up and up.
To watch Josh “Fistpump/flee in terror” Hawley aggressively interrogate Fauci over what color his tie was, what color the carpet was, whether Fauci had a dick, was to see a Nazi go after a Jew in a German courtroom from the mid-thirties until the day Hitler blew his own brains out in a bunker. It brought to mind debate champ Lyin’ Ted Cruz’s Jew-baiting of mild-mannered nebbish AG Merrick Garland when he confronted Garland over the Nazi salute (directed at Jewish members of school boards) being protected First Amendment expression. Check out Rand! Paul bullying Fauci’s lawyer.
Not to be outdone by his senate colleagues Hawley and Paul, pugnacious, unpinnable college wrestling champ and law school graduate Jim Jordan made a criminal referral to Blanche accusing Jack Smith of perjury on an extremely weak theory. Let us not forget that Jordan defied a subpoena from his Congressional colleagues and awkwardly dodged questions live on FOX about his conversations with Trump as his Day of Love riot was going on at the Capitol. MAGA knows better than to take oaths.
Jordan (who never actually became a lawyer) made a perfectly-timed fanciful criminal referral for Jack Smith while Todd was on the ropes for his unflinching service to every corrupt Trump whim, his refusal to answer questions honestly, his participation in, and defense of, Trump’s fraudulent Trump v. IRS “settlements”, his refusal to put in writing what he stated under oath, his grudging, insulting, pro forma meeting with Epstein survivors, his incoherent, contemptuous two page court filing response to Katie Phang’s lawsuit against him for the release of Epstein files and redaction logs (both required under the EFTA), and all the rest. Jordan wrote his beautifully timed, if idiotic, criminal referral asking Blanche to investigate and prosecute Jack Smith for not answering a question Jordan and his colleagues never asked him. In other words: perjury by a man, a scumbag, actually, who simply hated and persecuted Trump for no reason! That will play well on FOX, OANN, Newsmax, Der Stürmer, et al.
Former U.S. attorney and deputy assistant attorney general Harry Litman fully demolishes law school graduate Jim Jordan’s incoherent criminal referral here. This is what Republicans, running interference for the most corrupt president in world history, are saying about Jack Smith, who, unlike the rest of them, testified candidly under oath for hours. I turn this over to Harry:
Moreover, Trump and Judiciary Committee Republicans have undertaken a vicious defamatory campaign against Smith, part of the overall elaborate effort to whitewash Trump’s crimes. Trump called Smith a “deranged lunatic,” a “deranged animal,” a “criminal” who should be “thrown out of the country.” Grassley called his investigation “a runaway train that had no brakes” and declared in an official Senate Judiciary Committee press release that Smith and his “merry band of DOJ partisans weaponized the justice system” and that “it’s no surprise Smith didn’t play by the rules.” Kennedy, speaking to reporters outside the Blanche confirmation hearing, said: “I think he hates Republicans. He exercises power emotionally and immaturely. And I think he ought to have his head in a bag.” Cruz called the prosecutions “the worst political lawfare this country has ever seen.”
A defense against spurious false statement charges would serve as a public relitigation of Smith’s prosecutions and the mountains of evidence they were built on. It would remind the country—and re-establish for the historical record—who played their hand straight and who palmed the cards.
The hearing contained false and misleading statements, but they weren’t Jack Smith’s. In every public appearance, Smith has been scrupulous and by-the-book, which only makes sense since he knows the administration has him in its crosshairs.
The misconduct and false witness are on the other side: Trump, still lying about his crimes; Blanche, still straddling the untenable position of representing DOJ and his former client; Senate Republicans, still hiding under Trump’s coattails and hypocritically assailing Smith; and Jordan, in the self-appointed role of Torquemada, arrogantly leveling nonsensical charges against the one man in this farcical episode who actually followed the law.
Trump loves “acting” officials, and they love you, sir!
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