The Stone Zone | 01-22-26
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Summary
Former FBI Special Counsel Jack Smith faced blistering scrutiny on Capitol Hill this week as Republicans exposed the gross extra-constitutional abuse of power aimed squarely at President Donald Trump and his family. In a world overflowing with noise, there is one forum where the world s smartest voices connect, where visionaries sit at the same table as innovators, and great minds don t just talk, they act.
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Well, former Special Counsel Jack Smith faced what I would call blistering scrutiny on Capitol
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Hill this week as Republicans exposed the gross extra-constitutional abuse of power aimed
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squarely at President Donald Trump and his family.
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Not everyone will remember this, but while Joe Biden was still president, but there was
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growing evidence of his infirmities and the fact that he didn't seem to know where he was
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He was asked point blank by a reporter, aren't you worried about a rematch with Donald Trump?
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And he kind of smirked and said, no, we're not going to let him run.
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Joe Biden and his Justice Department launched Operation Arctic Frost.
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This is the use of the full authority of the judicial section of government, plus our intelligence agencies,
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to basically remove, or in this case, block a candidate for president for strictly political reasons,
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House Judiciary Committee Jim Jordan opened the hearings by revisiting the FBI's unprecedented 2020 raid on Trump's Mar-a-Lago home,
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an operation that, according to testimony from FBI officials themselves today, ignored standard protocol.
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In other words, FBI officials, both in the Washington and the Miami offices,
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because the three southern counties of Florida are under the jurisdiction of the FBI office in Miami,
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Some of those same people thought that raiding my home at six o'clock in the morning
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to arrest me for the first time nonviolent crime of allegedly lying under oath to Congress
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In my case, very much like Trump's case, they came in with overwhelming force.
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They did have a shoot-to-kill order, interestingly enough,
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and they rummaged through Melania Trump's underwear draw,
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Chairman Jordan revealed that they also searched First Son Barron Trump's bedroom,
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along with First Lady Melania Trump's personal belongings,
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despite, again, the internal FBI recommendations to notify Trump's legal team beforehand,
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Those recommendations were reportedly rejected by Biden's hyper-politicized Department of Justice.
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Jordan further noted that just three years after Trump announced his 2024 presidential comeback bid,
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Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed Jack Smith,
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bringing him back from The Hague, as a special counsel.
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Jack Smith had worked decades ago with Andrew Weissman in Brooklyn, equally corrupt.
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There are still pending allegations against Jack Smith taking bribes in his role at The Hague
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that the Justice Department has never adjudicated.
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But it's not lost on me that Attorney General Merrick Garland almost immediately then staffed his team at the DOJ
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with people directly tied to the controversial raid on Trump's home.
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Jordan's testimony made it abundantly clear at this hearing that law enforcement under Smith's direction
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Smith's testimony actually only continued to make the case.
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So when asked about President Trump's 2025 pardons of January 6th defendants,
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Smith abandoned any prosecutorial or legal restraint,
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openly speculating that those pardoned would commit future crimes.
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The comments right there demonstrate Smith's deep partisan underpinnings
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and a lack of objectivity on the question of President Trump and his supporters.
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And it was Jack Smith and his cohorts who came up with a completely baseless claim
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that during an election dispute, when a state election returns are disputed,
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that the forming of an alternative slate for the Electoral College by a certain deadline is not a crime.
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But Rudy Giuliani and a number of others still remain charged in Arizona and in Nevada
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for participating in an alternative elector slate.
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Internal elector slates to the Electoral College are formed
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to preserve your rights in the event that you are successful in court
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in overturning the election based on evidence and a trial.
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So for those out there, you find them all the time that will say,
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well, Trump's completely full of BS when he says the election was stolen
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because all of the legal challenges he brought were defeated.
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In fact, none of the legal challenges brought by Mayor Giuliani
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The courts managed to not hear those cases in every case based on some technicality.
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This is the same Bill Barr who, in an interview with Wolf Blitzer on CNN,
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said that mail-in ballots are an open invitation for widespread fraud.
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Yet when the U.S. Attorney in Philadelphia told Attorney General Bill Barr
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that he discovered hard evidence of voter fraud and election fraud in the Keystone State,
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he was told by Bill Barr to bury it and to do nothing.
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The highlight, perhaps, of today's hearing was when Congressman Troy Nels
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was talking about January 6th and correctly laid responsibility
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for the events that day on the Capitol Hill Police
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which allegedly failed to share intelligence warning of the coming unrest.
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President Trump, watching from abroad, called the hearing
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accusing Trump of destroying lives under the guise of justice.
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playing the role of a Capitol Hill police officer,
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He had to be physically removed from the hearings.
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This entire thing boils down to a simple question,
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and that is whether we are going to see accountability and justice
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or whether there are two different sets of rules,
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So when Peter Navarro, the president's trade advisor,
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gets a subpoena from the January 6th committee,
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Now, Bill and Hillary Clinton have been sent a subpoena
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to answer questions about their relationship with Epstein
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and Epstein's financial relationship with the Clinton Foundation
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Will they be incarcerated like an average citizen
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before the January 6th committee, as was General Flynn,
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and we both chose to assert our Fifth Amendment rights
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By the way, that does not mean that you did anything wrong.
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What it does mean is you're smart enough to know
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that the House Democrats will take what you say under oath
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You see, on this date, you got an email from Bannon.
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on the front page of that day's Washington Post.
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so they could put together this gotcha list of questions.
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is there one standard of justice or is there two?
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But these hearings that we are seeing right now,
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Jack Smith violated the Constitution and the law
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Their illegal surveillance alone is problematic.
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But then inventing this whole fake electors case
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particularly unsavory character who's on MSNBC,
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demanding that I should be charged with crimes in Georgia
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there were multiple alternative elector slates
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filed by Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and others.
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was declared the winner on election night in Hawaii.
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because once the absentee ballots were counted,
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before we have full justice and accountability.