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President Trump has sought to seek revenge against career prosecutors, FBI agents and support staff, simply for having worked on these cases. To vilify and seek retribution against these people is wrong. Those dedicated public servants are the best of us.
— Former Special Counsel Jack Smith, in testimony given today before the House Judiciary Committee, where he asserted that Donald Trump is on a revenge tour against those who worked on investigations concerning the president’s alleged attempts to overturn the 2020 election and his alleged mishandling of classified information. Defending his work, Smith went on to say, “Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in criminal activity. If asked whether to prosecute a former president based on the same facts today, I would do so regardless of whether that president was a Republican or a Democrat.”
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