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President Donald Trump demanded that former special counsel Jack Smith be jailed amid the political leader’s repeated and widespread calls for him to prosecution and imprisonment of his supposed political opponents.
in a Social Truth Posting On Wednesday, Trump complained that “all these thugs should be investigated and jailed.”
He added: “A disgrace to humanity. Deranged Jack Smith is a criminal!!!” along with an article titled “More than 160 Republicans potentially investigated in FBI Arctic Frost investigation, House panel says.” The article was published by right-wing outlet Just the News on Tuesday.
Trump’s post came later Axios reported that 160 Republican figures may have been investigated amid the FBI’s Arctic Frost investigation into alleged efforts by Trump allies to overturn the 2020 election, according to newly published documents.
Trump followed up his calls for Smith’s arrest in another intense debate. Social Truth Posting Thursday.
“He is a CRIMINAL AND SHOULD BE IN JAIL. A GREAT LIFE AND A FAILURE. An ugly person, both inside and out! I beat him brutally and I love watching him squirm now,” she wrote.
Along with the direct message, Trump included a link to another article by Just the news titled: “FBI memo opening Arctic Frost investigation into Trump had little evidence and justification, experts say.”
The investigation is “short on evidence and legal justifications, according to former prosecutors and FBI agents who found significant deficiencies when they reviewed the newly released document,” the article said.
The article went on to say: “The investigative code dubbed ‘Arctic Frost’ was led by an openly anti-Trump FBI supervisor, was eventually taken over by Special Counsel Jack Smith, and treated the effort by Trump allies to introduce surrogate electors to Congress to influence the certification of the 2020 election as a criminal conspiracy, even though two previous episodes in US history were not prosecuted as crimes.”
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While NBC News reports that Trump was targeting Smith with his Oct. 30 post, it’s unclear who he was referring to in his vague post since he didn’t name Smith directly.
However, Lanny Breuer, Smith’s attorney, apparently responded to Trump’s posts in a statement to NBC News saying, “As we briefed congressional leaders last week, Jack is happy to discuss his work as a special counsel and answer any questions in a public hearing, as has every other special counsel who has investigated a president before him.”
Breuer added: “We look forward to the House and Senate Judiciary Committees reaching an agreement so the American people can hear it directly. Name the time and place. Jack will be there.”
Breuer did not immediately respond to News themezone’s request for comment.
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Meanwhile, in a new letter sent Thursday to House and Senate Judiciary Committee leaders, Smith asked that he be allowed to testify publicly after House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) asked him to first testify behind closed doors.
“Given the many mischaracterizations of Mr. Smith’s investigation into President Trump’s alleged mishandling of classified documents and his role in attempting to overturn the results of the 2020 election, Mr. Smith respectfully requests the opportunity to testify in open hearings before the House and Senate Judiciary Committees,” his lawyers wrote in the Oct. 23 letter.
Elsewhere in the letter, Smith’s lawyers asked for assurances from the Justice Department that he “will not be punished” for testifying. Smith is also seeking “guidance” regarding “federal grand jury secrecy requirements and authorization on matters it may speak about” that are not publicly available.