Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) said that Special Counsel Jack Smith may "absolutely" be considering leveling seditious conspiracy charges against former President Donald Trump.
Former Vice President Mike Pence is expected to challenge a subpoena from special counsel Jack Smith, who is investigating former President Donald Trump on various matters, including the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021.
about the documents? was he aware they had been moved? did he, in any case, in the past five years, has he handled those documents? i think given that, we can t speculate. tell me your confidence level in jack smith and robert hur. they understand that their goal is to focus to the facts of the law and apply department policy. both of these men are not going to be influenced by political pressure. you feel they re both you said something intriguing to me, every special counsel starts with certain credentials. you pick people with sterling reputations, who are known for being nonpartisan, bur you re in a political arena, where inevitably you ll be attacked. there s two sort of unique defenses in each case that curious donald trump made the case that he could declassify anything. president biden didn t do that. that s one of the questions that the special counsel will have to look into, and in
special counsel, is this a slippery slope that many previous attorneys general have already feared, that once you appoint one, you essential can t stop appointing them? once you claim a rationale of a perception of unfairness that was true until the statutory obligation to appoint an independent counsel. it s not true under the special counsel guidelines. it s always left to the discretion of the attorney general. so i think when you have a similar case, as you do with the trump and biden documents, but i don t know if you need to apply that universally. i ask that, because a decision was made last year not to appoint a special in the hunter biden situation, now he s appointed one for the classified document of president biden. is he going to be forced to do the same thing with hunter biden? i think you can distinguish