"I wouldn't have described former special counsel Jack Smith that way; maybe "depressed." But maybe that's projection. Smith has been defiantly asking House Republicans to let him testify publicly about his investigations and indictments of Donald Trump. On Thursday, rather unexpectedly, they allowed it. Also unexpectedly, he did not seem defiant. He seemed resigned to the futility of his cause, and the likelihood that he and his colleagues would continue to be persecuted, if not prosecuted, for their work."
"We already knew Smith had to drop his cases against Trump when, unbelievably, the American people made him president again, despite widespread evidence of the disgraced, twice-impeached huckster's many crimes. The House January 6 Select Committee laid a lot of it out publicly. Smith, even after dropping his cases, made his investigative findings public in a brutal report last year."
Jack Smith pursued investigations and indictments of Donald Trump and sought public testimony before House Republicans. Republicans unexpectedly allowed public testimony, and Smith appeared resigned rather than defiant, anticipating continued persecution or prosecution of him and his colleagues. Smith had to drop his cases after Trump won the presidency again, despite widespread evidence of Trump's alleged crimes and the January 6 Committee's public findings. Smith published investigative findings in a brutal report and previously testified privately before the House Judiciary Committee, with Republicans later releasing a transcript and video that outlined the foundations of his case.
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