Former special prosecutor Jack Smith was interrogated at a Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing yesterday. If you know what happened, you know this ended as a massive embarrassment for Republicans — and for one in particular — but if you don’t, here’s a brief summary:
Trump and his allies have argued for years that Smith weaponized his powers as a politically motivated cudgel, and on Tuesday, [Missouri senator Eric] Schmitt and his aides were going to prove it. They were well prepared for the showdown. They didn’t just have a smoking gun — they had a chart printed on poster board….
But as it turns out, the Schmitt team’s whole setup was based on a dumb mistake. They apparently thought they’d found proof Smith was in Atlanta the day after a pair of local prosecutors announced an affair, revealing some kind of anti-Trump collusion between them.
This local prosecutors Smith was accused of meeting were Fani Willis, the Fulton Country DA, and a hired prosecutor with whom she was having an affair, Nathan Wade. Willis had acknowledged the affair a day before Smith’s alleged trip to Atlanta.
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