🚨 DEVASTATING Jack Smith DEPOSITION Video RELEASED

Well now we're going to find out what MAGA didn't want you to see about Jack Smith's testimony until we and the public put tremendous pressure on the Judiciary Committee. We've now got the video which has been dumped along with a 200-page transcript which we now have our hands on in the last hour or two on New Year's Eve Eve. And wait till you see the clips from the video I'm gonna play for you here on Legal AF about Jack Smith. It's exactly what we thought. He not only gave his testimony,

but he did a smack down of Jim Jordan and other Congress people who came in with an agenda to try to prove that Jack Smith was political, that he had a vendetta, that he wanted to take down Donald Trump. Have they forgotten where this guy came from? He was in The Hague. He was at the International Court on War Crimes. He wasn't even in America. I think he's a registered independent.

It's the reason he was chosen, because he wasn't in the United States at the time when he was chosen by Merrick Garland. So how could he come in with a precon at the time when he was chosen by Merrick Garland. So how could he come in with a preconceived notion that it was, this was a crime in search of a target? No, this was evidence that led to the indictment of Donald Trump, not once, but twice.

Smith had his opening statement, which laid it all out for you. And by the way, I put up the video and the transcript for paid members of Legal AF Substack and to celebrate that we just hit number one and rising on US politics on Substack, 30% off sale on annual membership right now over on Substack. In the opening statement, he said, I'm going to play you a clip in a minute, that he followed the law and the facts, that he would have prosecuted Donald Trump

regardless of party, and that this was not about politics. This was about the big E word. This was about evidence, that he was saddened and angered by the fact that staff that worked with him, FBI, Department of Justice, career officials, just doing their jobs, have been vilified, fired,

prosecuted, he mentioned that he himself from the pulpit of the most powerful person in the universe, the presidency of America, that he has been declared someone that should be jailed as a traitor. And yet he's there standing and delivering.

Let me show you a clip from the opening statement of Jack Smith with his lawyer next to him in room 2237 of the Rayburn building on December 17th,

2025, just released today. Play the clip. For nearly three decades, I've been a career prosecutor. I've served during both Republican and Democratic administrations, and I've been guided by those principles in every role I've held. I continued to honor those principles when I was appointed to serve as special counsel in November of 2022. The decision to bring charges against President Trump was mine, but the basis for those charges

rests entirely with President Trump and his actions, as alleged in the indictments returned by grand juries in two different districts. Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 election and to prevent the lawful transfer of power. Our investigation also developed powerful evidence that showed that President Trump

willfully retained highly classified documents after he left office in January of 2021, storing them at his social club, including in a ballroom and a bathroom. He then repeatedly tried to obstruct justice to conceal his continued retention of those documents.

Now, um, Jordan obviously comes in with his own agenda, right? He wants to come in with, Oh, Smith, uh, wanted to get Trump and, uh, and, uh, and, uh, and he wanted to get members of the House and the Senate and all of that. And Jack Smith took him down one by one. He said there was no presumption of a crime. He said it was evidence, not politics that dictated the outcome. As to the timing,

why did he wait until a few months before the campaign started or during the campaign to bring some of the indictments, he said it had to do with the strength of the evidence. They were not going to bring an indictment of a person who had been president about his time after he's president and during the presidency

who was running for presidency unless they dotted the I's and crossed the T's and had appropriate evidence as required by the Department of Justice manual and the principles of federal prosecution. To bring a case you have to believe you have probable cause to believe that there has been a crime committed. You have the elements of a crime and you can sustain that conviction through appeal.

And that happens along a time continuum, not all at once. Jack Smith also said he consulted with the Department of Justice leadership and the Solicitor General, the number four in the Department of Justice throughout the process. Let's play another clip of the video deposition.

You just made some pretty definitive statements about your belief that President Trump was guilty of these charges. Is that correct?

Yes, I believe we had proof beyond a reasonable doubt in both cases.

And doesn't the Justice Manual prohibit prosecutors from asserting that a defendant is guilty

of something before a jury makes a determination?

When a case is pending, yes. Now what Jim Jordan tried to make this about, because it's the only thing he's got, is to try to make it about the toll records. What's that all about? Well, at some point, they figured out in the course of their investigation, and of course they couldn't ignore it, that Donald Trump seemed to be coordinating with members of Congress, not doing their speech and debate legislative duties,

but trying to figure out a way how to interfere with the peaceful transfer of power. And so for a defined period of time, Jan 5 to Jan 7, they got search warrants approved through a judge issued by a grand jury. They got search warrants to go after the,

just the time records. It's like the old telephone bill. The number who was called duration of call for a number of people in Congress that had already been identified through other witnesses and other documents as being involved with Donald Trump to try to delay the certification to buy more time to have Donald Trump cling to power.

Totally legitimate. Jack Smith made it clear, I'll tell you what what I did isn't, it wasn't a wiretap, it wasn't a pen register. I've been involved with wiretapping and pen register cases. A wire tap is an actual device, electronic or mechanical, where you are able to listen in on a phone conversation. Pen register. You're able to take down details of what is being said. You know? It's like those movies where a guy's in a, a person's in a van with like headphones and

transcribing and listening and all of that, that's not what happened. None of the content of the conversation was ever obtained through this search warrant. Just the fact that there was a call at a certain time for a certain duration, like your phone bill. You open up your Verizon bill electronically or otherwise, it doesn't tell you, hey, you called grandma to wish her a happy birthday at some point. It just says grandma's phone number, 3.8 minutes,

whatever on this date. That's all it was. And so you saw this like back and forth with Jim Jordan, and him trying this preconceived notion to stick Jack Smith into a box with a gotcha smoking gun that wasn't a smoking gun at all. What Jim Jordan was really pissed off about is that this was done without members of Congress knowing because we don't want to tip him off and there was no policy in place that required

them to know. And he got pissed off that there was a criminal investigation that sort of tangentially touched on these people. He didn't know anything about it. Here's another clip of the nine hours of Jack Smith testimony, the one they didn't want you to see

until everybody put public pressure on them. And I'll be doing other hot takes with other aspects of this, but I wanted to get key ones up to you now. Let's play another clip.

I would do so regardless of whether that president was a Republican or a Democrat. Recent narratives about my team's work are false and misleading, including stories about our collection of toll records. Toll records were sought for historical telephone routing information, collected after calls had taken place, identifying the incoming and outgoing call numbers, the time of the

calls and their duration. Toll records do not include the content of calls. Those records were lawfully subpoenaed and were relevant to complete a comprehensive investigation. January 6th was an attack on the structure of our democracy in which over 140 heroic law enforcement officers were assaulted. Over 160 individuals later pled guilty

to assaulting police that day. Exploiting that violence, President Trump and his associates tried to call members of Congress in furtherance of their criminal scheme, urging them to further delay certification of the 2020 election.

I did not choose those members. President Trump did. I hope that my testimony today serves to correct these mischaracterizations about my work. And to that end, I welcome your questions.

So what do we got? We got a 240 page transcript which I posted on Legal AF Substack for paid members to go through. Some of its redacted, you know, to protect people. Most of it isn't. It's not pages and pages of blackout. It's a name here, a name there, page here, page there, that type of thing. Mainly you can read it for yourself. I've given you the summary of it. If this was a boxing match, this was a knockout by Jack Smith against an overmatched and overwhelmed Jim Jordan, who graduated law school apparently,

but never took the bar or passed the bar. Against Jack Smith, one of the finest lawyers in American history. I mean, he just the fact that he was able to get two indictments from two different grand juries of a former president about his activities at the end of his presidency while he was running for office. I mean, that is like that's not a high wire act without a net. That's like diving from a high wire into a shot glass of water and making it.

I mean, that's threading an elephant through the eye of a needle. You know what I mean? So it's important to history that Jack Smith's actual words coming out of his mouth in a video in a video deposition be exposed to the American people. He is the only, he is the only prosecutor, special counsel, that did not have the opportunity to tell the American people the results of his investigation.

Only one, Robert Herr, the Biden document investigation, he got to go, Robert Mueller got to go, John Durham got to go, everybody got to go, the Watergate prosecutors. We need this national debate and conversation and to expose who Donald Trump is. And the takeaway from this Jack Smith recording

or video is quite clear. If you asked me to summarize it, and I'm still digesting, but if he asked me to summarize it, I think it's this way, that Trump knowingly made false statements

that he targeted a lawful government function, the certification of an election. He mobilized his supporters based on falsehoods. He directed them to the Capitol. He refused to stop the violence and he continued to pressure Congress to delay. And this is all as Smith lays out under oath unlike Donald Trump about his theory of criminal

liability. He said in the opening statement as you heard that the he had not probable cause, which is the standard to bring the indictment, beyond a reasonable doubt proof that Donald Trump committed crimes to interfere with the election.

And that's knowing what the United States Supreme Court had ruled in the immunity decision. And that he had credible evidence, certainly more to get over the indictment hurdle, at Mar-a-Lago, probably more as the case continued. But certainly they were ready to try and win that DC election interference

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