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Trump admin escalates its war on young voters

President Donald Trump's administration is now aiming to make the voting process harder for college-age young adults ahead of November's midterm elections.

That's according to a Monday op-ed by MS NOW's Ja'han Jones, who wrote that the Trump administration's Department of Education may be exploring a way to curb young voter turnout with a newly announced investigation into Tufts University. The Education Department announced its new probe in a recent press release, saying the Boston, Massachusetts-based school may have been "illegally sharing college students’ data with third parties to influence elections."

The investigation is centered on Tufts' National Study of Learning, Voting, and Engagement (NSLVE). Tufts describes the NSLVE as "a service to over 1,000 U.S. colleges and universities that can use it to understand and improve their student voting rates." However, the Trump administration is saying the program could have potentially violated the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act.

"American colleges and universities should be focused on teaching, learning, and research — not influencing elections," Education Secretary Linda McMahon stated. "The Biden Administration, with little to no regard for student privacy laws, openly encouraged institutions to share and utilize student data in order to target certain populations."

Jones pointed out that the Trump administration's claims are false on their face, as Tufts' program uses publicly available data to conduct its research while maintaining students' confidentiality according to its website. Jones instead asserted that this probe was "little more than yet another gambit to prevent young voters from mobilizing and acting on their potential political power" ahead of what is shaping up to be a Democratic wave election in November.

As the MS NOW columnist wrote, Trump ally Cleta Mitchell — who represented Trump's 2020 campaign and frequently made baseless allegations of election fraud in swing states Trump lost — gave a presentation to Republican donors in 2023 warning about the "young people effort" to vote. Mitchell warned that polling places were too close to college dormitories, allowing students to "roll out of bed, vote and go back to bed."

The investigation comes not long after the Trump administration conducted a raid of an elections facility in Fulton County, Georgia, and a cryptic announcement from an FBI official inviting state election officials to a conference call to discuss the 2026 election.

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Former Trump official doesn't know how Republicans 'sleep at night'

President Donald Trump’s former deputy press secretary Sarah Matthews blasted Republicans trying to deny the facts of Trump’s attempted coup of the 2020 election.

Some GOP lawmakers at the Thursday testimony of former special investigator Jack Smith attempted to arbitrarily absolved Trump of any wrongdoing, despite evidence of correspondence between Trump and Republican allies and footage of attacks on the U.S. Capitol. Some attempted to make the argument that Trump did not really believe he had lost the election, so his machinations to “find” more votes and other tactics were in earnest.

Matthews, who worked with Trump, flushed those claims.

“Trump knew that he lost, and he had been told by multiple advisers, both in the White House, on the campaign and state officials, that he lost, so that this was a propaganda effort by his part to try to find these votes,” Matthews told MS NOW anchor Ari Melber. “For example, in Georgia, spreading these conspiracy theories about Dominion voting machines. He knew that he lost, but he was willing to cling to anything and any excuse in order to try to stay in power.”

Melber brought up Thursday Republican attacks on former Trump aide Cassidy Hutchinson, who provided incriminating testimony to the January 6 Committee on Trump’s scheme. Matthews similarly Blasted Republicans who attacked her without evidence.

“Any attack on Cassidy Hutchinson is pathetic, because I know her to be someone of good character, and she is extremely brave for coming forward with what she knew and testifying before the January 6th committee,” said Matthews. “She faced death threats as a result and had to go into hiding. So, I think that it's really rich for a lot of these members of Congress to sit there and attack her when there is no basis to their attacks against her.”

“Cassidy told the truth at great cost,” continued Matthews, “and I think that those who are sitting in those positions of power, who are two or three times her age, should really look at themselves in the mirror and consider what they're doing and how they go to sleep at night, because honestly, I don't know how they do it.”

She further hammered Republicans for “know[ing] that Trump lost a free and fair election and that he tried to overthrow it as a result.”

“[He] caused a violent insurrection. And he is the first president in us history to disrupt the peaceful transfer of power. And for them to attack Cassidy is just BS, honestly. And it's really frustrating because there is one person to blame for January 6th and it is Donald J. Trump.”

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Republicans betray their plans for the next coup: analysis

“The Weeknight” Co-host Symone D. Sanders says Republicans at Jack Smith’s Thursday testimony revealed their dangerous plans to disrupt future U.S. elections, even as Smith laid out the details of their leader’s last attempted coup.

“… [W]hile Democrats on the committee focused on the past, Republicans looked to change the subject,” said Sanders. “Instead of sincerely grappling with the violence or the attempt to overturn the election, Republicans focused on process. They questioned procedures, attacked the special counsel and debated legal technicalities. … [T]hey did everything they could to make it feel less consequential. That distinction matters.”

Sanders said Republicans’ antics, as Smith presented the facts, were an exercise in the normalization of coup behavior.

“When a violent attack on democracy is treated as just another political disagreement, something dangerous is happening,” said Sanders. “At times, the hearing felt less like an effort to hold people accountable and more like an attempt to wear the public down until it grew tired of attempting to hold people accountable.”

This was not a presentation of the past, said Sanders. What the hearing was really about was the future.

“We can argue about rules and process. But what Democrats tried to do, and what Republicans largely resisted, was to remind the country of a basic truth. Jan. 6 was a violent attempt to overturn an election, encouraged by the man who lost it,” she said. “… When serious crimes are not punished, it sends a message. It tells future actors that they can try again. Accountability is not about payback. It is about preventing the next attempt. Right now, the message of accountability has been lost.”

She further stated that by focusing on side arguments instead of the crime itself, and by treating election interference as a matter of opinion rather than fact and downplaying real concerns about future elections, as Republicans did during Smith’s presentation, “we risk normalizing behavior that should never be normal in a healthy democracy.”

And even now, Sanders says Trump is seeding the ground for future coup attempts, claiming the 2020 election was stolen.

“The goal is no longer to prove anything. It is to confuse people enough that they stop knowing what to believe,” Sanders said.

Read the full MS NOW report at this link.

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Former Trump lawyer shreds president's 'delusional fantasy'

Donald Trump once again repeated his false claims about the 2020 election during a high-profile speech before world leaders, prompting a "searing denunciation," according to Mediaite, from his former lawyer Ty Cobb, who called the president "delusional" and said "his narcissism has run amok."

On Wednesday, Trump gave a lengthy address at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, which drew widespread criticism as rambling, low-energy and littered with falsehoods. Among those falsehoods were Trump's oft-debunked claims that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from him due to massive voter fraud, claims for which he has never been able to produce concrete evidence and which courts have long dismissed. During the speech, Trump falsely claimed that his allegations about the election had been proven correct and pledged that criminal prosecutions were coming for those allegedly involved.

"The rigged election. Everybody now knows that," Trump said. "They found out people will soon be prosecuted for what they did."

During a Wednesday evening appearance on CNN, Cobb, a one-time member of the first Trump administration's legal team, turned outspoken opponent of the president, did not mince words in his reaction to the speech, prompting a stunned reaction from host Erin Burnett.

"He can’t get into a sentence without raising a grievance," Cobb said. "And he can’t get into a sentence and find his way out without either, you know, asserting some revenge-based point, you know, some fantasy, delusional fantasy such as the alleged rigged election, which [former attorney general] Bill Barr made clear to him was not the case before having to resign because of the coup that Trump wanted."

Cobb went on to denounce Trump's repeated claim that he has ended "eight wars" during his second administration, arguing that "nobody knows what they were."

"This is a man who is who is demented, and his narcissism has run amok," Cobb added. "And I don’t think there’s anybody outside the boundaries of the United States who believes for a second that Trump is saying at this stage of the game and those in the United States are merely in denial or so invested in him, they can’t — they can’t accept what their lying eyes tell them."

"Wow!" Burnett responded. "Powerful words."

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'Amateur hour': Trump’s DNI took 'extraordinary step' to 'intimidate election officials'

Six years ago, Tulsi Gabbard was competing with Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont), Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts) and others in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary. But Gabbard took a far-right turn and became a full-fledged MAGA Republican during Biden's presidency, and as national intelligence director in the second Trump Administration, the former Democrat and ex-congresswoman is aggressively promoting Trump's repeatedly debunked claim that widespread voter fraud occurred in 2020.

Gabbard drew strong criticism from Democrats because of her presence outside an election center in Fulton County, Georgia during a recent FBI search of voter records. And now, according to Daily Beast reporter Janna Brancolini, Gabbard is drawing more criticism for taking the "extraordinary step of seizing an unspecified number of voting machines from Puerto Rico."

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), according to CNN, confirmed the Puerto Rico operation — which, Reuters reports, took place in May 2025.

Brancolini, in an article published by the Daily Beast on February 5, notes, "Sources told both Reuters and CNN that it was completely unprecedented for the ODNI, which coordinates intelligence from across the other 17 agencies in the U.S. intelligence community, to be involved in investigating a sensitive domestic matter. Election security is usually handled by law enforcement, not U.S. intelligence services."

A former intelligence official told CNN, "This is well beyond what ODNI has the authority or expertise to do. This is amateur hour."

David Becker, leader of the Center for Election Innovation, is quoted as saying that the Trump Administration's goal is to "intimidate and denigrate election officials."

"Gabbard seems to have a habit of generating headlines during politically fraught moments for Trump," Brancolini reports. "In July, as the administration was facing widespread fury over the Justice Department's failure to release the Jeffrey Epstein files, Gabbard announced she had uncovered a 'treasonous conspiracy' and 'years-long coup' against Trump involving top Obama Administration officials. Nothing ultimately came of the supposed revelations, but for a brief moment, Trump crowned Gabbard the 'hottest' person in his administration over the unfounded allegations."

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Trump doesn’t need to rely on legally dubious tricks to steal the midterms

With Democrats having enjoyed a series of double-digit victories in late 2025 and early 2026 elections and President Donald Trump suffering from weak approval ratings in countless polls, many Democratic strategists are feeling cautiously optimistic about November's midterms and their chances of retaking at least one branch of Congress. But at the same time, Trump's opponents also fear he will do something underhanded to steal the midterms — be it using U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to intimidate voters or using legal challenges to throw out legitimate votes for Democratic candidates.

In an article published by the conservative website The Bulwark on February 17, journalist/author and political science professor Nicholas Grossman urges Democrats to be vigilant about the midterms without panicking. And Grossman, who teaches at the University of Illinois, lays out a variety of ways in which Trump-backed GOP candidates could compete in the midterms without resorting to overtly illegal tactics.

"Vigilance is warranted, but excessive fear plays into the authoritarians' hands," Grossman argues. "This is not a call for complacency. Backsliding from democracy into authoritarianism is greased by people saying, 'Calm down, it’ll be fine, the institutions will handle it, he doesn't mean it, someone will stop him.' I'm not doing that. But I think it's important to right-size worries, to focus on what could realistically happen rather than lose time and expend attention and resources worrying about what can't…. The Trump regime's desire for domination is bottomless, but its capacity is not."

With Trump, Grossman observes, the "larger pattern" has involved using "existing mechanisms" rather than resorting to illegal means.

"Since Donald Trump first took office in January 2017," Grossman explains, "there have been two midterms, five off-year elections, and numerous special elections, and he's never really gone to the mat for anyone but himself. He lies and cries fraud a lot, but most vociferously for himself — even when he wins — and he went way beyond legal means only in 2020/21, attempting a coup after losing reelection. But as some will note, he did regain power despite how January 6 turned out."

Grossman continues, "Yes, exactly — he regained power by availing himself of legitimate mechanisms: winning the GOP nomination via primaries, then winning the Electoral College, plus a plurality in the popular vote. He didn't somehow go around the election or invent a different mechanism to become president."

The University of Illinois political science professor acknowledges that the "second Trump Administration is less constrained than the first," using "more authoritarian control." But he stresses that Trump is trying to "manipulate the midterms in his favor" via "existing mechanisms" — namely "partisan gerrymandering."

"There's a good chance that all this partisan gerrymandering will be a wash, and that even if Republicans max out their gains, a swing of four won't matter," Grossman writes. "Remember that in the 2018 midterms during Trump's first term, Democrats gained 41 House seats. If there was a 'steal midterms' button Trump could press, Republicans wouldn't have bothered with the gerrymandering push."

Grossman continues, "Any election manipulation Trump attempts can be overwhelmed by big voting margins. That includes gerrymandering, where Republicans may have spread themselves too thin for a political environment less favorable than 2024. A blue wave that swings the House by anything close to 40 seats and puts the Senate in play would be impossible to stop…. The vote is going to happen in November, and all signs point to Republican losses."

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'Reptiles of the mind': George Will blasts Trump’s election denial

A conservative columnist is blasting President Donald Trump for continuing to spread the baseless conspiracy theory that he actually won the 2020 presidential election.

“Donald Trump’s belief in widespread fraud in the casting and counting of 2020 ballots is entailed by his belief that it is theoretically impossible for him to lose at anything,” wrote George F. Will, a former adviser to President Ronald Reagan and columnist to The Washington Post. “His certitude infects millions of Americans, some of whom think it inconceivable that he could ever be mistaken. Others doubt that anyone could win the presidency while obsessing about a complex conspiracy for which there is no evidence.”

Will correctly pointed out that Trump has a long history of claiming something was stolen from him when he loses — and it started well before politics. During a 2016 debate, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton accurately pointed out Trump accused the Emmy Awards of being rigged against him when he was snubbed for his work on the reality TV show “The Apprentice.” Earlier that year, after losing the Iowa caucuses to Ted Cruz in the 2016 GOP primaries, Trump baselessly alleged fraud and demanded a new election. Throughout the 2016 campaign Trump said he would only accept the result if he won, and after winning the Electoral College but losing the popular vote that year, he falsely blamed millions of illegal ballots and established a voter fraud commission that eventually disbanded without finding evidence of his allegations.

In 2020, Trump preemptively attacked mail-in voting, prematurely declared victory on Election Night and falsely claimed votes were being "dumped" against him. Biden ultimately won by a clear margin in the popular vote (81.3 million to 74.2 million) and the same Electoral College margin (306-232), but despite this Trump attempted a coup on January 6, 2021. To this day, Trump continues to falsely claim he won the 2020 election.

“Someone should read to him ‘Lost, Not Stolen,’ a 2022 report by eight conservatives (two former Republican senators, three former federal appellate judges, a former Republican solicitor general, and two Republican election law specialists),” Will wrote. “They examined all 187 counts in the 64 court challenges filed in multiple states by Trump and his supporters. Twenty cases were dismissed before hearings on their merits, 14 were voluntarily dismissed by Trump and his supporters before hearings. Of the 30 that reached hearings on the merits, Trump’s side prevailed in only one, Pennsylvania, involving far too few votes to change the state’s result.”

Will concluded, “Trump’s batting average? .016. In Arizona, the most exhaustively scrutinized state, a private firm selected by Trump’s advocates confirmed Trump’s loss, finding 99 additional Biden votes and 261 fewer Trump votes.” Therefore he wrote of Trump, “The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.”

The Pulitzer Prize-winning Will is not alone among conservatives warning about Trump’s authoritarian election-denying tendencies. Linking his 2020 denialism to his efforts to discredit Democrats if they win the 2026 midterms, a Republican who served as Maricopa County, Arizona county recorder explained Trump’s strategy.

"Almost every single Republican that I spoke with after the 2020 election ... knew that there was very little to Donald Trump's allegations of a stolen election,” Stephen Richer, who served when Trump attempted to steal the 2020 election, recently told The Atlantic. “At best, they stayed quiet. At worst, they went full-throated along with it because they knew it was a path to political riches."

He also said Republicans are planning to dispute however many number of Democratic victories they need to stay in power, then demand House Speaker Mike Johnson reject their seats.

“Speaker Mike Johnson, the outgoing speaker, will choose not to seat the new members, because they’re in allegedly disputed elections,” Richer said.

Conservative historian Robert Kagan expressed the same concern, arguing Trump has trained Republicans to oppose democratic outcomes unless they get what they want.

“I am worried, as I have said and others have been pointing out, about whether we will even have free and fair elections in 2026, let alone in 2028,” Kagan said. “I think Trump has a plan to disrupt those elections, and I don't think he's willing to allow Democrats to take control of one or both houses as could happen in a free election.”

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Conservatives blast Trump over $10 billion IRS lawsuit after pledging to reduce waste

Andrew Egger and William Kristol of the center-right publication The Bulwark argued on Tuesday that President Trump’s proposal to pay himself $10 billion from the IRS exposes his hypocrisy and will further alienate voters already souring on him.

Egger was particularly scathing when he contrasted Trump’s rationale for $10 billion from taxpayers with his support for X CEO Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which promised to root out $1 trillion in wasteful spending but actually oversaw a spending increase. Egger pointed out that Musk targeted foreign aid to impoverished nations, slashing aid to charities that provide food and medicine on the grounds that the money rightfully belonged to US taxpayers. He declared that Trump is blatantly contradicting that justification by now trying to take $10 billion from the IRS on the grounds that “nobody cares how much [I pay myself] if it goes to a good charity.”

Egger also questioned whether Trump would actually give the money to charity, given that the president has been legally proved to have self-dealt in his previous “charitable” contributions.

“Trump had been using his personal charity, it came to light after a lawsuit from the state of New York, to pay his business debts, make political contributions, and buy things for himself,” Egger wrote. He concluded by quoting pollster Nate Silver in saying that “the share of Americans who strongly disapprove of Trump broke 46 percent for the first time yesterday,” leading to Kristol’s argument.

Kristol cited a Data for Progress survey which showed that 64 percent of voters believe Trump will attempt to use immigration enforcement to interfere with the 2026 midterms, while another 56 percent believe ICE should be legally blocked from polling locations. He concluded that, despite the assumptions made by many pundits after Trump was reelected in 2024 despite attempting a coup on January 6, 2021, millions of voters care about democracy and freedom as much as economic self-interest.

“You might think congressional Democrats would be doing more to highlight the issue of election interference in the current discussions of ICE funding,” Kristol wrote. “You might think our political, business, and civic elites would be doing more to mobilize on the subject of election interference. They may be getting there, at long last — but reluctantly and hesitantly.”

He concluded by comparing Democratic timidity in confronting ICE with a notorious quote by the French politician Alexandre Ledru-Rollin in 1848:

“There go the people. I must follow them, for I am their leader.”

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Republicans are realizing 'Trump-worship' is a losing strategy: Fox News analyst

Republican analyst Juan Williams is arguing that Republicans are retiring from Congress at historic levels because President Donald Trump is increasingly unpopular.

“You’d quit, too,” Williams wrote in his recent editorial for The Hill. Breaking down the logic of the many Republican legislators with whom he has spoken, Williams described it as dozens of them independently picking “Option One” from the list: “Option One: They can quit. Option Two: They can keep silent on alarming polls showing low public approval for Trump and his Republican Party as the midterms approach. Option Three: Accept that there is a price to be paid for Trump-worship.”

Williams added that while “blindly jumping on the Trump bandwagon” helped Republicans win the presidential and legislative elections in 2024, “now the cost of their idolatry is piling up for Republicans remaining in Washington as Trump begins his final days.”

As one example, Williams noted that Rep. Troy Nehls (R-Texas), decided not to run for reelection. Nehls said that “if Donald Trump says, ‘jump three feet high and scratch your head,’ we all jump three feet high and scratch our head” after Trump won the 2024 election.

Williams also quoted Marjorie Taylor Greene, who resigned from her Georgia US House seat earlier this year, saying that by remaining in office she would “be expected to defend the president against impeachment after he hatefully dumped tens of millions of dollars against me and tried to destroy me,” a scenario Greene described as “absurd and completely unserious.”

“Greene’s forecast of bad weather for House Republicans who stay around for Trump’s remaining time in office now looks spot on,” Williams added. “Last week, six House Republicans voted against Trump on tariffs. He immediately took to social media to attack and threaten them.”

Overall 51 House members and 12 senators have so far decided not to run for reelection, on track for the most departures from Congress this century. That group of 63 retirees includes 36 Republicans. Currently, Fox polls show 61 percent disapproval of Trump’s performance on the economy, 62 percent disapproval of his performance on health care costs and 64 percent disapproval of his performance on inflation and tariffs. The voters most motivated to vote prefer Democrats at a rate of 52 percent, “the highest recorded for either party. In 2017, the last time it was even close (50 percent), House Republicans lost their majority later in that cycle.”

Williams has previously sounded the alarm to fellow Republicans about Democrats’ chances in the 2026 midterm elections.

"Epstein remains a problem for Republicans as Congress returns,” Williams wrote in September. “But there are fires everywhere. And should Democrats take control in 2026, a third Trump impeachment will be on the table.”

Williams has also harshly criticized Republicans like the former Senate Majority Leader, Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), for trying to distance themselves from the mess they helped to create with the current president.

"The bad news for McConnell is that despite his decades towering over Washington as a top GOP leader, he is now eclipsed by President Trump's takeover of his party," Williams wrote. "Trump has called McConnell 'a dour, sullen, and unsmiling political hack' and warned that Republicans would lose if they remained aligned with him. And Trump issued a racially pointed insult to McConnell's wife. McConnell didn’t fire back."

Adding that McConnell voted to acquit Trump after his coup attempt on January 6, 2021, Williams concluded that his attempts to “regain some dignity by defying Trump with votes against Trump's nominations of Pete Hegseth for defense secretary, Tulsi Gabbard for director of national intelligence and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for Health and Human Services secretary” are "too little too late."

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'Suited for Fox News': Nicolle Wallace calls out GOP's Jack Smith conspiracies

CNN anchor Nicolle Wallace roasted Republican lawmakers for muddying the waters of a legitimate testimonial session concerning President Donald Trumpo’s Jan. 6 insurrection attempt.

“Questions from lawmakers … ranged from the inquisitive to the ludicrous,” said Wallace. … [Former special prosecutor] Jack smith came into this hearing today as a political target for Republicans. They barely let him speak. At times, they interrupted him with absurd conspiracy theories and what-aboutism better suited for Fox News.”

But when Smith did get a chance to speak uninterrupted, Wallace said “he was crystal clear” in his testimony about how confident he was with his case and pushing back against conspiracy theories that the Biden justice system was weaponized against President Donald Trump.

At one point, Smith had to pushback at Rep. Ben Cline’s (R-Va.) claim that there could be no proof of Trump intimidating witnesses over the Jan. 6 attempted coup because intimidated witnesses “would fail to come forward.”

Smith replied that proof was prevalent, possibly from Republican witnesses who ignored Trump’s threats and approached the prosecutor’s office anyway. Smith added that the best source of much of the witness testimony for his investigation came from Republicans in correspondence with Trump in the days leading up to Trump’s insurrection attempt. After all, Trump was not approaching Democrats for help in overthrowing the election.

“We had extremely thorough evidence that his statements were having an effect on the proceedings that is not permitted in any court of law in the United States.”

“Don't you think it's a pretty low bar to clear if you're trying to silence a candidate for president?” Cline pressed. “I mean, if you can't identify a single witness who's intimidated then maybe you should reconsider the gag order.”

“Both courts upheld the orders, and it is not incumbent on a prosecutor to wait until someone gets killed before they move for an order to protect the proceedings,” Smith replied.

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Trump 'should be imprisoned': Critics react to Jack Smith testimony

Former special counsel Jack Smith spoke to the House Judiciary Committee on Thursday where he clarified some details that Republicans have tried to use as talking points against him.

Legal, analyst, reporters and commentators took to social media to attack the questioning of Smith.

"Republicans on House Judiciary don’t want answers from Jack Smith. They keep on interrupting him as he responds to their questions," said legal analyst Katie Phang.

"Jack Smith reminds us that the cases against Trump were dismissed 'without prejudice.' Meaning they could be brought again," legal analyst and podcast host Allison Gill, of @MuellerSheWrote pointed out.

National security analyst Marcy Wheeler cited Rep. "Hank Johnson still has it: While we're deposing Marshall Miller (the guy who got Jack Smith hired) perhaps we can depose Donald Trump why he hired his personal lawyer to run DOJ."

At one point, she noted, "So far Jack Smith is getting his a-- handed to him by the 5-minute rule and Dem ineffectiveness."

MS NOW producer Kyle Griffin pointed out a key quote from Smith: "Donald Trump was not looking for honest answers about whether there was fraud in the election. He was looking for ways to stay in power. And when people told him things that conflicted with him staying in power, he rejected them."

Reporter Adam Cochran wrote: "Rep Lofgren points out: * Most of Jack Smith’s case is built on the testimony of *REPUBLICANS* * As well as many of the Presidents closest allies in sworn testimony * Including @LindseyGrahamSC who said he told the President he lost, and that Trump would have blamed 'martians' for stealing the election."

Sociologist and educator Dr. DaShanne Stokes posted, "What we already knew, and what Jack Smith confirms, is that Trump is guilty of sedition, treason, incitement of violence, incitement of insurrection, an attempted coup, obstruction of justice, fraud, and election tampering. Trump remains ineligible to hold office and should be imprisoned."

Wheeler cited a comment from Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calf.) who claimed that multiple Republicans frequently trash Trump to Democrats behind closed doors. In one case, Swalwell said, "Matt Gaetz used to make fun of Trump on the Hill. [Swalwell] can't impugn his still-colleagues. But he can say stuff about disgraced former House member Gaetz."

New York Times reporter Glenn Thrush commented on Judiciary chairman, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), who attacked Smith saying that the DOJ changed its policies about obtaining phone toll records about members of Congress.

"Context," wrote Thrush on X, "The Trump administration essentially scuttled the public integrity section — getting rid of all but 2-3 of its 35 prosecutors."

"Jim Jordan clearly doesn’t realize that Jack Smith is smarter, more honorable, and in better shape than he can ever even imagine being," remarked film and TV producer Franklin Leonard.

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