Jamie Raskin

calling not the National Guard, which was under the direct unilateral control of Donald Trump, but calling members of Congress, urging them to delay certification and to nullify the election results.

Special Counsel Smith, you pursued the facts.

You followed every applicable law, ethics rule, and DOJ regulation.

Your decisions were reviewed by the public integrity section.

You acted based solely on the facts, the opposite of Donald Trump.

who now has purported to take over the Department of Justice.

He's in charge of the whole thing under his unitary executive theory, and he acts openly, purely based on political vendetta and motives of personal revenge, and he doesn't deny it.

Our colleagues,

have complained about the special counsel's review of toll records, which are phone records, like a phone bill, showing only the timing and duration of calls and containing no content, no substance whatsoever from the calls.

But those records were lawfully subpoenaed because Donald Trump made those members of Congress relevant to the investigation.

It was Trump who chose to call them to advance his criminal scheme.

As you testified, Mr. Smith, if Donald Trump had chosen to call

a number of Democratic senators, we would have gotten toll records for them too.

I trust our colleagues get the point because America certainly gets the point.

There is much Mr. Smith still can't talk about, though we know he badly wants to.

His investigation developed what he calls powerful evidence that Trump stole documents containing our country's most sensitive secrets, hoarded them in the ballrooms and the bathrooms of his well-trafficked Mar-a-Lago social club.

He showed them off to visitors, and then he obstructed a federal investigation by instructing his attorney to pluck out anything really bad before turning materials over to the FBI

and having his staff delete incriminating security tape footage.

But today, and we're not going to hear a lot about that,

because you are gagged by an absurd judicial order rendered faithfully by Trump's most servile and sycophantic appointee to the federal bench, Judge Eileen Cannon.