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President Trump has sought to hunt revenge in opposition to profession prosecutors, FBI brokers and help workers, merely for having labored on these circumstances. To vilify and search retribution in opposition to these folks is unsuitable. These devoted public servants are one of the best of us.
— Former Particular Counsel Jack Smith, in testimony given right now earlier than the Home Judiciary Committee, the place he asserted that Donald Trump is on a revenge tour in opposition to those that labored on investigations in regards to the president’s alleged makes an attempt to overturn the 2020 election and his alleged mishandling of labeled info. Defending his work, Smith went on to say, “Our investigation developed proof past an affordable doubt that President Trump engaged in felony exercise. If requested whether or not to prosecute a former president primarily based on the identical details right now, I’d accomplish that no matter whether or not that president was a Republican or a Democrat.”
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