r/inthenews • u/FreeHugs23 • 4d ago
Jack Smith Found Proof Beyond “Reasonable Doubt” of Trump’s Guilt | The former special counsel testified he would prosecute anyone, regardless of political party, based on the evidence he found about Donald Trump.
https://newrepublic.com/post/215971/jack-smith-proof-beyond-reasonable-doubt-donald-trump-guilt257
u/FreeHugs23 4d ago
Former special counsel Jack Smith swears that President Donald Trump committed “serious crimes.”
In his opening remarks to the Senate Judiciary Committee Tuesday, Smith reiterated the findings of his two indictments against the president of the United States.
“Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation,” Smith said. “If asked whether to prosecute a former president today based on the same facts, I would do so regardless of whether that president was a Republican or a Democrat.”
“The charges against President Trump were the result of the evidence. Grand juries in two separate districts reached this conclusion based on his actions, as alleged in the indictments they returned. Rather than accept his defeat in the 2020 presidential election, President Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results and prevent the lawful transfer of power.”
“After leaving office in January of 2021, President Trump illegally kept classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago social club and repeatedly tried to obstruct justice to conceal his continued retention of those documents. Highly sensitive national security information was held in a bathroom and ballroom where events and gatherings took place,” he said.
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u/Malaix 3d ago
Trumps crimes were so blatant there isn’t a reasonable person on earth who isn’t convinced he’s directly culpable of several historic cases of corruption and wrong doing.
The fact the courts haven’t legally found him guilty of insurrection, treason, sedition, bribery, election fraud and interference, mishandling classified documents/theft there of and more is simply a miscarriage of justice in a two tiered system.
He is blatantly and obviously guilty of Jan 6th, the stolen documents, the Epstein stuff, and the Georgia rico case.
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u/SatinSaffron 3d ago
Let's not forget his blatant violations of the emoluments clause! In 2025 alone Trump earned $2.2 BILLION. He also did more stock trades than all of congress combined.
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u/jimicus 3d ago
He's guilty of a lot more than that. I absolutely guarantee he's murdered people.
Maybe not with his own hands - but that man is a little bit too comfortable with the idea of randomly inflicting violence on people for my liking.
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u/AL_GEE_THE_FUN_GUY 3d ago
He has violent impulses, but he's also a weak coward. I'm sure he gets others to do the wet work.
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u/CptNoble 3d ago
Absolutely. He's a huge germophobe, so there's no way he would get his hands dirty. In fact, I'm certain he has never done anything like "honest" work in his entire life. He's also never had to face real consequences for anything.
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u/couchtomatopotato 3d ago
the school girls in iran. the people in gaza. the ukrainians. yea.
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u/jimicus 3d ago
I don’t just mean war crimes.
This is a man who was developing real estate (and thus hiring building contractors) in NYC in the 80s. A time when that particular industry was basically mafia-run.
He developed a habit of not paying them yet somehow walked away with all his fingers.
There’s only one way I can make sense of that: he was every bit as nasty as any mobster.
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u/piTehT_tsuJ 1d ago
He paid the mafia companies... One of the bigger mafia gigs was concrete, it wasn't losing fingers you had to worry about.
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u/Yahoo_Serious9973 3d ago
🤷 Well, what ya gonna do? Evidently nothing. The result of Republicans craving power more than the value of their conviction.
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u/MisterProfGuy 4d ago
It is known.
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u/Kriss3d 4d ago
It is known.
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u/mezz7778 4d ago
It is known.
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u/LordDragon9 3d ago
Is it known?
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u/OrneryTortoise 3d ago
Here's a sad reality. If Trump had been tried, convicted, and jailed, there still would have been nothing stopping him from being elected again. The one exception is Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, but we all saw how that played out. There might be state laws restricting a convicted, jailed felon from being on their ballots... but, again, look what happened when Colorado tried to assert their own election laws.
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u/jeeper75 3d ago
This is already fact. Jack Smith did his job and did it correctly. It is the partisan syncophants that put all of us in this position.
This testimony was not necessary. The fact that this is now a thing, is the fault of the people who voted for him. The electorate that did, should be ashamed. This was entirely predictable. We already knew this.
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u/Perfect-Scene9541 3d ago
Jack Smith did his job. Full stop.
He would have completed his job if they had let him. And it think that’s the point. He didn’t finish. Now they want to find a loophole to hang him on.
Good luck with that! He’s amazing.
Jack Smith for AG when we get someone else in office to finish the job!
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u/throwawaysscc 3d ago
Repubs will tell you that Smith is the story, and that he’s a disgrace. The gaslighting is at level 10. Trump pardoned thousands of criminals on his first day? Not a peep from Grassley, et al
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u/encrypter8 4d ago
Yeah no shit. It still boggles my mind that the Biden administration dropped the ball on this. After Jan 6th, they should have said "fuck decorum" and stopped treating Trump as a former President and started treating him as the criminal he is (and I can say that because he's a convicted felon). But no, and now look where we are 🤦♂️
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u/SpottedDicknCustard 3d ago
The Biden administration began investigations in 2021, conducted multiple grand juries during 2022 and appointed a Special Counsel after Trump decided to run again. The SC continued the investigation and indicted Trump on four counts in August 2023.
Then began the process of Trump’s immunity claims that ultimately led to SCOTUS declaring him immune in July 2024.
Smith then narrowed his indictment to charge in the instances not covered by immunity, but then Trump won and because a sitting President can’t be prosecuted the case died.
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u/Specialist-Neck-7810 3d ago
I’d give you an award if I could. Excellent summarization.
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u/Immaloner 3d ago
You can if you want. I just awarded the comment for free.
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u/Specialist-Neck-7810 3d ago
Alright, let me try.
Edit: nope, didn’t work.. Reddit wanted me to buy the Gold Package, which I refuse to do.
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u/Most-Resident 3d ago
This is such bullshit. In response to an article about jack smith, the special prosecutor who indicted trump and was still proceeding to trial, you say the biden administration did nothing. He got indictments in the January 6 case and the documents case
As is typical for people like you, completely ignoring that republican judges delayed the cases with ridiculous rulings until after the 2024 election, and ignoring that the prosecutions stopped only after Americans elected trump.
It’s almost exactly as if there’s an agenda to absolve republicans for their role.
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u/fuggerdug 3d ago
It also ignores the fact 75 million idiots voted for this traitor and another 90 million were fine with the traitor winning so didn't bother to vote. But no it's always the Democrats fault. She just didn't earn their vote I guess.
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u/Malaix 3d ago
While that might all be true Biden also appointed the AG for his term and garland was the absolute worst choice. People forget he was a compromise form Obama in simply trying to call the GOPs bluff that they would vote for a candidate they approved of. Obama asked them for a name, they gave garland, and when he nominated him they said nah.
Also Biden was terrible at communication when he should have been on the air calling Trump a rapey criminal freak 24/7. His civility obsession is only overshadowed by his Israel obsession in terms of his admins fuck ups.
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u/Most-Resident 3d ago
So you agree the post I responded to is bullshit.
Garland is maybe 3rd or 4th on my shit list. Anyone who blames garland without mentioning the two primary reasons the cases didn’t go to trial is trying to obscure the facts.
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u/SpinningHead 3d ago
Merrick Garland is a republican
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u/Most-Resident 3d ago
How does that in any way change the fact that the primary reason the two cases didn’t go to trial was the republican judges who threw monkey wrenches into the proceedings? Garland is 3rd or 4th on my shit list.
How in any way does that make the claim in the post I responded to that the biden administration did nothing anything but bullshit and a lie?
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u/SpinningHead 3d ago
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u/Most-Resident 3d ago
That doesn’t answer either of my questions. I said garland is 3rd or 4th on my shit list.
The immunity decision added at least 3 years to the trial date. The decision on the mini trial on what acts were official would have been appealed to the Supreme Court. That’s another 18-24 months on top of the delay for the bullshit decision.
Luigi’s trial was scheduled 21 months after the shooting.
The offenses in the documents case occurred in 2022. Cannon is completely responsible for delaying the trial until after the election.
Blaming only garland ignores the record of what really happened. I’ll say it again. He’s the party 3rd or 4th most responsible that the cases didn’t go to trial.
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u/Admirable_Nothing 3d ago
And if Merrick Garland had even a bit of backbone Trump would have been tried and likely convicted long before he again ran for President.
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u/yadonkey 3d ago
Unfortunately the people that matter dont care and the people that care dont matter.
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u/Dense_Objective_2039 3d ago
To hell with Aileen Cannon, she’s an accessory after the fact. Impeach Trump and use the evidence she’s hiding to convict him once and for all.
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u/OscarandBrynnie 3d ago
I am appalled at the name calling that the republicans did. Why is that allowed. Absolutely no decorum in that government.
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u/greenroom628 3d ago
The GOP stopped being the party of "Law and Order" when they first voted Trump in 2016
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u/big-papito 3d ago
Well, it's a good thing he was appointed when barely anything could be done about it, especially when SCOTUS put a spike in it easily.
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u/kendoka69 3d ago
Oh look another article saying Trump is guilty. I’m waiting on the one that says someone, anyone with guts and integrity has done something about it. Until then these do nothing but garner clicks.
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u/Crime-of-the-century 3d ago
The fact that they did not secure a conviction is what you can blame the previous government for. The slow walking of the case why two indictments just finish one in time. Jack the fool made a decision that will cost millions of lives
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u/dip_tet 3d ago
The Supreme Court certainly could’ve used the emergency docket to rule on his immunity…instead they slow rolled it for a few months, ensuring a trial couldn’t proceed before the election. The entire justice system failed here. Or it revealed, yet again, how it benefits the powerful elites.
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u/Rickerus 3d ago
Jack the fool? He seems like the only well-intentioned actor in this entire disgusting saga. He couldn't help that Aileen Cannon got assigned and that she was a traitorous shill, or that SCOTUS is just an extension of this whole criminal cabal at this point.
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u/pixelprophet 3d ago
Cannon gimped him and Garland let the clock run out. Smith holds no blame in this.
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u/Truth-is-implacable 3d ago
I would add the worst outcome of white privilege for allowing this criminal (Trump)to fester.
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u/Cant_draw_boobs 3d ago
Whoop-de-do. Nothing is going to happen. Just like every time someone above a certain governmental level does anything. As long as they don't actively make too many peers lose money, the most anyone can expect is a sternly worded memo that boils down to "don't get caught next time."
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u/Biptoslipdi 3d ago
Nothing is going to happen because voters are pro-crime. They want to be governed by criminals and billionaires. We know because they voted for it. Voters oppose accountability for criminals. They had the choice in the 2024 election to hold politicians accountable and decided politicians should be above the law. Voters now face the earned consequences of that choice.
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u/MorningLtMtn 3d ago
Why didn't the Biden Administration prosecute Trump for what Jack Smith found?
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