Bulwark podcaster and former Republican National Committee spokesperson Tim Miller asserted Republicans chose New Year’s Eve to release damning testimony from former special prosecutor Jack Smith in order to "bury" it — but argued that their ploy won’t work.
“They're obviously trying to bury this,” Miller told MS NOW. “It doesn't take a political communications expert to let you know that. … But, look, this is the kind of thing that can't really be buried. It's going to come out no matter what day of the week, no matter what hour of the day. You can try all you want, but I mean, this was … the special prosecutor who hasn't spoken much at all publicly: Jack Smith. And anything that he says will be newsworthy. He was prosecuting, and he believes he was going to be able to indict and convict the current sitting president of the United States.”
Miller said the nation will likely be eager to hear Smith lay the details of the case out for the public to see, especially considering most Americans saw the crime underway as it happened in on January 6.
“We all watched the crime, so this isn't like watching Law and Order SVU where you're, like, waiting for the big reveal around the corner, and I think that's the thing that a lot of us are frustrated with, with regards to former [U.S. Attorney] Merrick Garland and the Biden administration: It's affirming what we all knew. And that's validating. It's important that it's out there. … This prosecution should have started the day Joe Biden got into office.”
The former George W. Bush speechwriter said the likely be the new round of faces that Smith name-checks who verified the facts of Trump’s attempted theft of the U.S. election in 2020 will be doubly intriguing for many American voters. This list will include people who voted for Trump, as well as his close political allies.
“One of the clips … that was interesting to me was when [Smith] says bluntly that [Trump advisor] Rudy Giuliani admitted that he knew it [Trump’s claims] were fake. And I think that that was going to be a big group of people that [Smith] relied on — not the folks who totally flipped on Trump, like [former White House aide] Cassidy Hutchinson, but people who were advisers to his campaign who have to, by law, testify honestly."
"And they were going to testify honestly and say, ‘hey, [Trump] asked me to provide evidence that this election was stolen, and I told him it wasn't.’”
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