During his appearance on Capitol Hill to answer questions about his lawfare attacks on President Donald Trump, former Department of Justice special counsel Jack Smith got in a heated spat with Rep. Russell Fry (R-SC), with Rep. Fry catching the former DOJ Deep State hack in a major lie and calling him out on it to his face, seriously embarrassing him.
It began with Rep. Fry pressing Smith on the details of his lawfare attack, and Smith trying to dodge. Toward the beginning, for example, Rep. Fry asked, “Okay, so, so after the indictment, you in August, you asked for a January trial day. That’s like Five months. Five months. How many, how much evidence did you have? Millions of pages?”
Smith, not even wanting to answer that basic question, insisted he didn’t know about how much evidence he supposedly had, saying, “As I sit here right now, I don’t recall the exact [number of pages].” Fry, firing back, said, “I think in your testimony, they talked about a number, 13 million pages. Is that a ballpark, accurate number?”
Then, using that broadly correct number to expose that Smith hadn’t really gone over all the evidence he supposedly had against Trump in the five months he gave himself, the representative dunked on the former special counsel and exposed just how many pages per minute Smith was supposedly reading.
He said, “Let’s just assume that that’s true, right? Because you had a bunch of stuff, you had $50 million that you blew through the Treasury on a trial that went nowhere. How many pages per day is that
100,000 that sound about right? What do we break that down per hour? It’s 4166. Per minute? It;s 70 pages . . . Do you read 70 pages a minute?”
As Smith admitted that he could not read that quickly, Rep. Fry then used the matter to expose the egregious lies and claims of Smith, saying, “I mean, that would be remarkable. So how do you prepare for a trial in five months if you’re asking the defense counsel to read 70 pages a minute. How do you do that, and prepare a defense, and look at all the witness testimony and video evidence that you supposedly had?”
Continuing with the same point, he said, “How do you do that? You know? What’s shocking to me, and I think that the most one of the most egregious aspects of this case, Mr. Smith, is that if you get a traffic ticket in Washington, DC, you’re not going to trial in five months, but you want the president, the former president, United States, to have a trial date with 13 million pages of documents within five months.”
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Still not done, he then used that to expose, as Smith sat looking like a deer in the headlights, “I think that’s ridiculous, and I think that speaks exactly to what we talk about when we examine not only your record, but the things in this case that are deeply troubling, that this was not the pursuit of facts and law and letting the judge and the jury decide, that this was . . . a political hit job timed perfectly against the President of the United States, sir.”
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