Counsel jack smith. The 45page indictment accuses the former e president of three counts of conspiracy and one count of obstruction for his alleged efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election. Culminating in the january 6th attacks on the u. S. Capitol. Heres the Special Counsel tuesday after the charges were handed up. The attack on our nations capitol on january 6th, 20211, was an unprecedented assault on the seat of american democracy. As described in the indictment, it was fueled by lies. If lies by the defendant targeted at obstructing a Bedrock Function of the u. S. Government, the nations process of clerking, counting and certifying collecting, counting and certifying the results of the president ial election. Paul lets bring in Wall Street Journal columnists dan Dan Henninger kim strassel and Editorial Board member kyle peterson. Dan, its interesting, he cited the riots at capitol, but thats not really in the indictment, per se, nothing that links to the rioters in par
here. elaborate on your point. yeah. well, i think the real problem here, paul, is that a jack smith doesn t is have have a law he can point to that says the actions of donald trump were actually illegal in terms of trying to change or confront or overturn the election results. so instead he s got this novel theory tata it is a conspiracy if a that it is a conspiracy if that a politician is advised what he is saying is a lie and acts on it otherwise. the problem though, paul, is we have politicians who do that all the time. i remember back in 2014 when the supreme court ruled 9-0 that barack obama had wrongfully installed recess appointments by declaring the senate in the recess, a power he did not have. he claimed he had the constitutional authority to do that. he clearly did not. could you not make the case that he had lied to the american public and taken actions on the basis of that that defrauded the regular function of government? well, i think you could. and i m to worried t