"7 takeaways from Jack Smith's congressional testimony

The New Year's Eve transcript release buries details from the former special counsel's investigation into Donald Trump.

Smith built his case around Trump's allies

Some of Smith's most substantive testimony centered on his never-implemented trial strategy: using Republicans who believed in Trump to make the case against him.

"The president was preying on the party allegiance of people who supported him," Smith said. "The evidence that I felt was most powerful was the evidence that came from people in his own party who ... put country before party and were willing to tell the truth to him, even though it could mean trouble for them."

- I know it's not good, not Christ-like at all.

Your Cult Leader and your Cult are diametrically opposed to anything, 'Christ-like'.

Boaz knows his place on the Plantation; wherever Massa' tells him to be.

- This hatred I feel?

Is exactly what the Trump Cult financed by billionaires wants you to feel; hatred of, 'the other', anyone who is not like you.

In 1930's Germany it was immigrant Jews, today in America it's immigrant brown and black people being demonized to gin up the anger of the far rightwing Authoritarian White Nationalist Base... the SAME people who the FBI and Homeland Security verify are the biggest cause of Domestic Terrorism in this country, and have been for decades.

These are YOUR people, Major B... be proud.

Transcript

"The decision to bring charges against President Trump was mine, but the basis for nine of those charges rests entirely with President Trump and his actions, as alleged in the 10 indictments returned by grand juries in two different districts," Smith told the committee.

"This was not a case where we needed more witnesses," Smith testified. "It was a case where we needed to be able to present the case in a streamlined way because there was so much evidence."

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Full video:

This is that time when Trump's wife warns a guest mom to not let Donald near her 14 year old girl.

Trumpers think that's cool.

What I quoted directly refuted your assertions completely... perhaps it's your reading comprehension skills that need resuscitation. Not to mention your vocabulary and crude, rudimentary attempted insults, which would embarrass most 5 year olds.

- 'It's always the man...man...'

The moneyed and corporate elite appreciate your support. Keep it up, perhaps Thiel will notice you and put you on the Short List for AI transplants.

"Since 1975, practically all the gains in household income have gone to the top 20% of households."
per Snoofy posts

Just quoting the economic facts.

Other facts include that:

"Boomers end in '64-ish. Thiel and Musk are definitely Gen X. Like Kavanaugh. They're early Gen X."
also per Snoofy posts

- a pompous ---- with zero critical thinking skills

OK, I'll give you that you have excellent projection skills.

- your own original thoughts

It's a well-accepted given around here that yours are, 'stirred, not shaken'.

Scapegoating other Gens than your own as if yours doesn't suck at least as badly... and letting the people who REALLY control the economy, who are not avg Americans of any Gen, is as noted well above... merely childish finger-pointing.

Also it's obfuscation for the real culprits, who wouldn't piss on you if you were on fire... and they needed to pee.

-- The inflection point occurred when the social contract was deemed invalid in the pursuit of wealth and power.

The economics of 1975 is on the Boomers?

Pull the other one!

Corporations/Billionaires everywhere appreciate you blaming their actions on entire Gens... particularly your Gen that, in your own formulation, is responsible for funding the rise Donald Trump.

Perhaps you'll get a promotion at the Lab.

- When I graduated, getting a job wasn't a steep hill to climb and starting a career wasn't a distant dream. Now? Forget it.

"Now" is much more a function of your Gen than mine... but that blame game is still a stupid one.

The Elites have been the driving force in wage to living disparities since 1975... which is pre-Boomers having control of the economy, which has been in the hands of the Elites since well before then.

SO next we should be blaming the Greatest Gen in general for not controlling the Elites that have given us Planned Recessions and Top Down Economies since the mid '70's?

No, there's not one Gen to blame... unless of course you want to blame Boomers for scaring the living ---- out of Elites in the late 60's and early 70's when they realized that the People might just stand up and Protest.

Which led to pro-Corporate SC decisions in the late '70's and Elites funding Reagan in the '80's, and eventually the far right Tea Party-ish movements and Citizens United, which sealed the deal we have now; Money is Speech, and he who has the most money has the most speech.

"The president's suggestions as to who could top the Republican presidential ticket in 2028 have been so quiet that they're practically murmurs.

Without ever explicitly signaling his support for Vance to lead the party, Trump has lauded his number two, publicly describing Vance as "very capable" and the "most likely" choice to front the Republican ticket."

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"Somehow, Vance is the best that the party's got"as of right now. No other GOP figure, including longtime presidential wannabes State Secretary Marco Rubio and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, eclipsed five percent in the CNN poll.

The largest group of respondents"some 64 percent of those polled"said they had "no one specific in mind" to top the 2028 ticket, suggesting an open playing field in which just about anyone could step in to win the Republican nomination.

Still, several of Trump's most ardent supporters"including his first term chief strategist Steve Bannon"have advocated that the president should attempt to seek a third term. Vance, Bannon claimed in August, is simply "not tough enough" for the job."

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They're going to have to pry Trump's tiny cold dead hands from the Presidency.

The first thing the expert says in the linked video is that, 'the same thing happened in 2024, and we are seeing it again in 2025.".

SO, in 2024 the trend started under Biden, sans ICE bullies and Gestapo Tactics from this Admin's Cult of Hate and Violence against Americans from the dull-witted likes of Herr 'Sieg Heil' Miller, Nutty Noem, Krash Patel, Bloody Blondi.

Thanks, Trumpers!

(and thanks for dumbass posters who disprove their own talking points)

aka... Making Proud Boys and Prison Guards Greatly Rich Again!

Hitler's Secret Police were called...

"Hitler's secret police was called the Gestapo, an acronym for the German term Geheime Staatspolizei, which translates to "Secret State Police".

The Gestapo was a critical instrument of terror for the Nazi regime, operating without judicial review and wielding immense power to identify and eliminate political opponents, Jews, and other groups deemed undesirable by the Nazis."

MAGA is Revolting!!

(always has been)

"The CIA carried out a drone strike bombing on Venezuelan soil last week, making it the first U.S. attack inside the country that we know of.

The strike, reported first on Monday night by CNN, hit a dock on the Venezuelan coast that the U.S. administration claims was being used by Tren de Aragua for narcotrafficking. The Trump administration also claimed that the dock was empty when the strike was carried out, resulting in zero casualties.

While Donald Trump vastly expanded the CIA's ability to act independently, they still do not have the authority to carry out land strikes in Venezuela"although that means nothing when they've already extrajudicially murdered dozens of fishermen in Venezuelan waters and quite literally stolen an oil tanker.

While Trump alluded to hitting a "big facility where ships come from" last week, he refused to confirm or deny whether that attack was the one we now know was carried out by the CIA."

- examine what those people were thinking, and why.

It is the same in all recent Gens... all the Elites are mostly of one or more Gens, but those Gens are mostly not the Elites, they are average Americans.

From #9: "As I mentioned above, most of the Elites who funded the Oil Wars and Reagan were indeed Boomers, but most Boomers were not Elites.

Today, Musk and Thiel and most of the other major Trump billionaire's aren't Boomers... "

Examining the facts is fine, but playing blame games with Gens when it's the Elites that make the decisions with their bribes to politicians (and SC Justices) is frankly useless.

It's a Distraction not unlike Trans, Immigrants, and Abortion; "Look over there, not at us!".

"Trump's influence on politics is undeniable. The MAGA movement that propelled him to office twice has reshaped the Republican Party.

Trump's re-election last year momentarily deflated Democrats. But just a few months into his second term, his policies re-energized the party's progressive left wing, including the election of Zohran Mamdani, a democratic socialist, as New York City mayor in November."

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He's also losing voters faster than you can say, "Jeffrey Epstein"!

Should be called the Trump Voter Reduction Act.

"The protests were the largest since a wave of demonstrations rocked the country after Mahsa Amini, 22, died in police custody following her arrest for not wearing the hijab correctly. At the time, Iranian police responded with force, imposing an internet shutdown and violently cracking down on demonstrations with teargas and gunfire.

Analysts say the Iranian government has reduced its domestic repression since the 12-day war with Israel during the summer, as it seeks to shore up support after suffering significant blows to its image as an impregnable regime.

The "morality police", for example, have at times relaxed the strict application of social edicts in Tehran."

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"The erosion of purchasing power is exacerbating an already dire economic situation in Iran, making food and other daily needs increasingly unaffordable.

According to Iran's government statistics centre, food prices are up 72% and medical goods 50% compared with this time last year. At the same time, the government has said it will increase taxes in the Iranian new year, which starts on 21 March."

Jonathon Turley, lmao... what Alan Dershowitz wasn't available to comment on, 'European censorship'?

- Boomers end in '64-ish. Thiel and Musk are definitely Gen X. Like Kavanaugh. They're early Gen X.

Like I said.

They and their billionaire friends gave us Trump with their bribe investments for Media buys, were we to be playing JPW's game.

Which we aren't.

Here's a good New Year's quote for all of us to keep in mind:

"Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people,"

(often attributed to Socrates, encouraging focus on concepts, progress, and intellectual growth rather than gossip or trivial happenings. While widely shared as Socratic wisdom, the exact wording isn't in Plato's dialogues, with some tracing the sentiment to historian Henry T. Buckle or Eleanor Roosevelt.)

#10

Apparently, as you obviously have no actual retort other than one big whine.

Musk and Thiel and most of DJT's biggest donors are your Gen. Own it.

But I'm not going to play your stupid kid's game.

- corkandsniff

That was very grown up! Good job (pats head).

Generational blame games are Distractions to the point of what's happening now... sorta like rwing distractions about Trans and Immigrants.

Perhaps you should blame Boomers for stopping the War in Vietnam (that killed at least 4 million people outright, and is still killing people today with chemicals), running Tricky Dick out of Office, JFK, The Great Society, and Women's Rights.

The Greatest Gen, who won WWII and elected FDR 4 times and gave us the New Deal... also dropped the atomic bombs on Japan. No Gens are perfect... well, except maybe yours.

One could blame your Gen for there being little good music anymore. Or Tic-Toc, ffs.

Also for Trump if you want to look at swing voters... although they are flocking back to center now.

Boomer accomplishments

"The Baby Boomer generation (born 1946-1964) significantly advanced social justice, spearheading the Civil Rights Movement, second-wave Feminism (fighting for reproductive rights & workplace equality), and the anti-war movement (Vietnam), leading to lasting policy changes and increased social freedoms.

They also drove technological adoption (personal computers, internet), shifted consumer culture with their large numbers, championed environmentalism, and fostered an era of public service and volunteering, although their legacy also includes significant national debt and debates over economic inequality."