Special counsel jack smith was ever a serious lawyer, he lost that distinction tonight. He now has the sole dysfunction of being a political hack. The attack on this nations capitol on january 6th, 2021 was an unprecedented assault on the seat of democracy, the department of justice has remained committed to ensuring accountability for those criminally responsible for what happened that day. This case is brought consistent with that commitment. Laura well by listening to this guy you would think that trump himself was smashing through the glass at the capitol that day. That was one of the most demogog would assume that trump was alleged to have carried out the capitol riot. This is the criminalization of disinformation in order to get a conviction he will have to use material in of in my view is clearly protected by the First Amendment. Laura now this case should never survive a motion to dismiss, a motion of summary judgment, obama judge ever do the right thing, i want to remind you s
thumb is if you are going to try to data political opponent and president in the middle of an election, it should not be based on a flimsy legal theory which is dangerous. laura: non-application of the law, that is great timing to put that into play. i mentioned this briefly earlier, but this judge, amy chutkin who is handling this case back in 2022 the ap called her the toughest punisher in the january 6th cases. a former assistant public defender, nominated by obama and she is consistently taken the hardest line against the defendants of january 6th of any judge serving on washington s federal trial court. she worked for boiyce, schiller, the same law firm that represented alexander