Jack Smith

And during our lifetimes, that was absolutely impossible.

If you got caught in a hearing in the center of the House saying something that could be proved to be untrue during the hearing, which was hard before the Internet—

But, you know, but if that could happen, if that could happen, that would be the end of that person on that committee.

The chair would go to the speaker and say, we have to get we've got to get him off of this.

They can't be here for this.

And so here we are.

The the enabling party of Donald Trump was on display.

Famous Moynihan quote of you're entitled to your own opinion, but not your own facts.

He would say that in a Senate hearing approximately once a year because he would be pushed to the point of saying that exactly once a year.

That's how much we accepted the same facts and then argued off of the same facts in those days.

Our assessment of the evidence is that he is the person most responsible for what happened on January 6th.

He caused what happened.

It was foreseeable to him.

And then when it happened, he tried to exploit it in furtherance of the conspiracy.

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