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And one other thing I would love to see them drill down.
Jack Smith, Merrick Garland made it seem like he just plucked Jack Smith out of the Hague.
Here was this tough war crimes prosecutor in the Hague.
We just went and got him to demonstrate the independence of the Department of Justice in this probe.
No, no, no.
Well, Jack Smith disclosed, and I really credit the House Judiciary Committee and Chairman Jim Jordan for flagging this.
As early as the summer of 2022, Jack Smith was in touch with Lisa Monaco, our favorite deputy attorney general at the time, her deputy.
saying that he wanted to go back to the Department of Justice.
If there was a position there, he would go back.
Of course, he was in the DOJ under the Obama administration.
He was asking for a job there for months.
And what he said is he specifically asked to work in the newly created domestic terror unit
which had been created by Matthew Olson, the head of the National Security Division in the Biden DOJ, a former DOJ colleague of Jack Smith's under the Obama administration.
What did the Domestic Terror Unit do?
Matthew Olson, National Security Division at DOJ, Domestic Terror Unit, did two things.
They helped pursue Jay Sixers, and they were involved in the criminal investigation into the president and
deliberations pre and post Mar-a-Lago raid.
So Jack Smith and Merrick Garland's little tap dance that this was, oh, we just picked him.
That's not the case.
So just for backup, so anyone who follows me religiously knows I sparred with these animals for years and they would help identify or they were really part of the punishment, the process.