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Jack Smith: "My fear is that we have seen the rule of law function in our country for so long that many of us have come to take it for granted. The rule of law is not self-executing. It depends on our collective commitment to apply it."

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I'm pretty sure that Trump's Band of legal misfits are already drawing up papers to sue the shit outta Mr. Smith. It's what Trump does. If you say mean things about him....expect to be in court. With Trump's mind failing as fast as a rock in water, Trump might cook up an even more evil revenge.

I went through a more stringent background check (which included any indication of criminal behavior barring me from employment) for a shitty, entry level, state of Texas, public service position than what the postus, obviously, has to go through. Convicted felons should be removed and barred.

"...Apply it....." Thats whats missing, the rule of law IS NOT being applied to criminals that are running this country into the ground to protect themselves.....

💯...... we have all branches of government full of corruption all to protect the mob boss (aka pedophile, criminal, rapist). Criminal enterprise to loot and dismantle the government for personal gains.

Jack Smith testifies to US Congress while Trump calls for his prosecution Trump pushed the Justice Department to level criminal charges against Smith, the former prosecutor who led investigations into his actions Apply the Law this Republican mob? The only Law they know is the Law of greed & fear

We've seen EVERYTHING function for so long that we no longer even see it. My fear is that we'll have to relearn lessons by experiencing destitution, disease, and death by causes we addressed decades ago.

Gym is a creep and an embarrassment. He is my rep🤮. He has no voicemail/no one answers the phone/no town halls. He is worthless, but also dangerous.He fools the dumb farmers bc he waves a flag and thumps that bible. He’s never done a damned thing for anyone but himself, but he knows how to gaslight.

I watched some of the live testimony and Jack Smith is a rare breed of old school principled patriot and heroic public servant. It gives me hope that those days are not gone forever. Committee Republicans, on the other hand, are making it hard for me to hold my breakfast down.

The Democratic Party's communications specialists need to be studying this statement. For me, as a voter, it works (MAN! does it work!). Those last two sentences would be a great call to action.

Totally believe this. People were so shocked rigging an election was even possible and equally shocked their cult leader would do it. If they had paid attention to Trump's whole life enterprises there wouldn't be a question in their minds.

I am sick to my stomach by every single rage filled slimy person attacking Jack Smith. The calm responses from Jack Smith when attacked, ESPECIALLY how he quietly said "as was consistent with the law" made me so proud at his steadiness. Thank you to the Dem leaders who allowed him their time.

It wasn't nice, it was done right disrespectful. When is the last time they showed ANY Kind of Decorum? Its always play for the cameras. Smith was great!! They acted like they always act, hostile, lies, blaming and pointing fingers. They wonder why we can't stand their asses.

Rule of law does not sustain itself & depends on continuous institutional & public commitment. Americans have been insulated from political instability/democratic collapse seen in other countries, this fostered complacency. Political stability is not guaranteed & must be actively defended

A failed innkeeper and petty grifter who spent his life bowing to others discovers the path to power. Driven by old humiliations, he transforms into a maniacal tyrant who vents his long‑buried fury and rage on the world.

It also depends on the integrity of those with the responsibility to enforce and interpret it. Currently those in leadership positions do not have integrity, only loyalty to Trump.

And now Issa, who's a complete douchebag, has started his monologue of bullshit. And of course he won't let him answer any questions. He's a useless cunt and I can't believe the people in California voted for this Dirtbag again. He's talking, not asking questions. Fuck you Issa

GREAT to see this. Coherent TRUTH, diametrically opposite to the deceptive, incoherent blather of the ROTTING terrorist traitor bitch Trump yesterday. Trump has BROADCAST that he is 100% criminal. Anyone supporting him now is not worthy of speaking publicly. They were traitors. They are dead.

Turn over all of the Epstein files. #defund_ice #de_ice #pedophiletrump #hookermelania #felontrump #rapisttrump #fmaga #8647🪏⚰️ The Idaho GOP would rather support a #pedophiletrump than to admit they were wrong.

Watching a bit of this testimony "live" was a major Republican clown show with Rep. Jim Jordan trying to create a spectacle by asking Jack Smith questions and then providing his own answers without actually hearing the testimony or allowing Jack to speak. Heil Herr Jordan!!!

Well, since he didn't answer the subpoena for his own appearance, he figured he'd make up for it by participating super-enthusiastically in Smith's.

Exactly. The Constitutionally disqualified, illegitimate, corrupt, Russian asset, felon & his enablers need to go now! #GeneralStrike #TrumplsACriminal #BlueCrew #MassBlackout #BlackoutTheSystem #SoftSecession #MAGATerrorists #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles #StrongerTogether bsky.app/profile/refu...

Refuse Fascism@refusefascism.bsky.social

From Venezuela to the streets of Minneapolis, the Trump regime murders & demonizes whole peoples and countries w/o any pretense of the rule of law. This is open brutal terrorism to enforce a fascist regime of white supremacy, xenophobia, & patriarchy. Fascism is upon us now. TRUMP MUST GO NOW!

& It is not enough to accept everything. You have to fight for freedom, democratic politics and justice. If you don't, what is happening in the USA right now will happen. Don't put up with it – stand up!

This is why democracy is so vulnerable. Once societies are polarized, and mass & elite supporters of the government disregard weaponization of the rule of law in the name of partisanship, democracies crumble.

Jack Smith may be the only sober-minded person in that room.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Jack Smith: "My fear is that we have seen the rule of law function in our country for so long that many of us have come to take it for granted. The rule of law is not self-executing. It depends on our collective commitment to apply it."

The one under oath, Jack Smith, is taking the greatest risk by telling a simple truth while the remainder participate in farce, operating alongside a criminal enterprise that endeavored to kill all of them, the engineer of which they never indicted, pretending like any of this is sane or moral.

It is not only trump, this has been a decades long orchestrated effort - an successful effort - by the conservatives, conservative whites, evangelicals and "christians", far right, white supremacists and extreme right to undermine the rule of law.

Asking for collective commitment is an insult while the Trump administration’s unscrupulous actions go unpunished. If justice is blind to high-level impunity, it is not justice—it is complicity. What is needed is the power to hold the system accountable, not faith

The Constitutionally disqualified, illegitimate, corrupt, Russian asset, felon & his enablers need to go now! #GeneralStrike #TrumplsACriminal #BlueCrew #MassBlackout #BlackoutTheSystem #SoftSecession #MAGATerrorists #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles #StrongerTogether bsky.app/profile/refu...

Refuse Fascism@refusefascism.bsky.social

From Venezuela to the streets of Minneapolis, the Trump regime murders & demonizes whole peoples and countries w/o any pretense of the rule of law. This is open brutal terrorism to enforce a fascist regime of white supremacy, xenophobia, & patriarchy. Fascism is upon us now. TRUMP MUST GO NOW!

Exactly. The Constitutionally disqualified, illegitimate, corrupt, Russian asset, felon & his enablers need to go now! #GeneralStrike #TrumplsACriminal #BlueCrew #MassBlackout #BlackoutTheSystem #SoftSecession #MAGATerrorists #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles #StrongerTogether bsky.app/profile/refu...

Refuse Fascism@refusefascism.bsky.social

From Venezuela to the streets of Minneapolis, the Trump regime murders & demonizes whole peoples and countries w/o any pretense of the rule of law. This is open brutal terrorism to enforce a fascist regime of white supremacy, xenophobia, & patriarchy. Fascism is upon us now. TRUMP MUST GO NOW!

Not to be a negative nancy, but I don't see this changing anything. The GOP is far to deep in the crimes to do the right thing, or are scared of being MAGA's next target of violence. I seriously hope I am wrong, but he's skated around so many things, even PEDOPHILIA, so cut me a break.

Definitely feeling like we’re in a post law America. We’re becoming a country where it only matters if you get caught. Or if you have the power to ignore those laws.

Trump's trial must also be BIDEN and GARLAND'S trial. They should be co-defendants. This country will NEVER restore rule of law if we don't also convict those who perverted the course of justice and kept Trump out of prison.

I mean "the rule of law" has always meant trampling people. Usually poor people and black people. This has been a huge problem very recently, it was in all the news. What you're now seeing is the simple fact that the law applies to YOU. Not to them. They were just hiding it better before.

Well I guess we’d have to ask Merrick Garland if he thought a speedy trial was just too much. The failure was not understanding that the election was about Trump staying out of fucking jail. It was right there and it was there for years and they fucked around.

Redacted apart from the victims names. THE Epstein files is the biggest cover up ever, this proves trump name is over them .This proves he and alot of republicans are in those files, along with high profile people. Republicans PEDOPHILE PROTECTORS.

I want a rule of law that protects women and children from rape by men like Donald Trump and Jeffery Epstein. I want a rule of law that RELEASES THE TRUMP EPSTEIN FILES.

Wherever you live, call your senators & reps to make your voice heard! Call anyone in congress. Make them sweat 🥵. Posts & comments only accomplish so much & sometimes nothing unless they inform or are followed by action. The public congressional switchboard 📞 # is 202-224-3121. USE IT! PASS IT ON!

The rule of law is been functioning in the US? Lol If it was, there'd be no trump and the Republican party would be registered as a terrorist organization Lack of law enforcement has led America to this point Jack has one heck of a sense of humour

Jack Smith’s case against Donald Trump was dead-bang, as they say. Merrick Garland, possibly the biggest coward to ever be U.S. Attorney General, made several key decisions which torpedoed Smith’s prosecution of Trump. bsky.app/profile/vinc...

Vince Wade News@vincewade.bsky.social

Trump is a hater. He’s a petty, grievance-driven shell of a man. Arguably, at the top of the Trump “hate” list is former federal prosecutor Jack Smith, who built a powerful criminal case against Trump. Blame former A.G. Merrick Garland for no prosecution. vincewade.com/most-hated-b...

Unfortunately it seems that especially the republican lawmakers prefer to live in a lawless and fascist Regime. Everyone enabeling this Regime is guilty of Not only killing fellow US-citiezens but also erasing the democratic fundament known as Constitution. Do Not ever forget their names!

Those privileged nepo babies like Trump keep getting away with things like draft dodging and cheating other while hiring lawyers to protect them. The rule of law should strip them of such protections and face real consequences.

The only hope that most of the GOPedos have now is that he wins. Revenge politics and childish revenge tours like this president has demonstrated has kept him from doing one positive thing for this country since he has been in office. The crimes he has committed cannot go unpunished.

Jack Smith is actually quoting what sounds like Benjamin Franklin: "A Republic, if you can keep it": His most famous remark, made upon leaving the Constitutional Convention, underscored that the survival of the new government depended entirely on the continued effort and vigilance of the citizenry.

Somebody needed to tell Merrick Garland that, and before anybody defends him with the SCOTUS, may I remind you that Propublica reported on GOP SCOTUS justices taking bribes and he didn't even investigate. He would have had authority under 18 U.S.C. § 201).

If you have to ponder the inactions of Garland and others maybe you should also ponder the hastily constructed gallows intended for Pence. Much of what could have been justice has to factor in an insanely well-armed , irrational Republican electorate. That's the secret sauce that keeps it all cookin

I think there's a case to be made , but ...no. At the end of the day ambitious men answer to an absolutely insane segment of our population. Pence would have been murdered and an adoring crowd would have cheered and perhaps murdered Democrats. Senators would have been in the crosshairs of a lunatic

The Constitutionally disqualified, illegitimate, corrupt, Russian asset, felon & his enablers need to go now! #GeneralStrike #TrumplsACriminal #BlueCrew #MassBlackout #BlackoutTheSystem #SoftSecession #MAGATerrorists #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles #StrongerTogether bsky.app/profile/refu...

Refuse Fascism@refusefascism.bsky.social

From Venezuela to the streets of Minneapolis, the Trump regime murders & demonizes whole peoples and countries w/o any pretense of the rule of law. This is open brutal terrorism to enforce a fascist regime of white supremacy, xenophobia, & patriarchy. Fascism is upon us now. TRUMP MUST GO NOW!

I’m not defending Garland. But I do place him in line behind McConnell (who should have convicted Trump), Schumer (who should have had 14th Amendment vote ready to go right after 57-43 impeachment vote), THEN Garland. But Roberts Court wins! Forced Trump on ballot, blocked trial, anointed him King.

We the people made a huge mistake when we were totally passive in response to McConnell stealing Obama’s Supreme Court pick after Scalia’s death w/ 11 mos to go in his term. We should have marched on DC w/1 million & sent 10,000 to McConnell’s house. Both Dems & “the people” let it happen.

If anyone breaks the law, citizens arrest them. If anyone obstructs justice, citizens arrest them. Yes, even up to the Supreme Court or the President. Your “law enforcement” are either scared of, or fascists. Deputize new ones. You are not powerless. Democracy literally means, Power to the People.

The Constitutionally disqualified, illegitimate, corrupt, Russian asset, felon & his enablers need to go now! #GeneralStrike #TrumplsACriminal #BlueCrew #MassBlackout #BlackoutTheSystem #SoftSecession #MAGATerrorists #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles #StrongerTogether bsky.app/profile/refu...

Refuse Fascism@refusefascism.bsky.social

From Venezuela to the streets of Minneapolis, the Trump regime murders & demonizes whole peoples and countries w/o any pretense of the rule of law. This is open brutal terrorism to enforce a fascist regime of white supremacy, xenophobia, & patriarchy. Fascism is upon us now. TRUMP MUST GO NOW!

As things stand now, the rule of law means nothing to republicans in office. djt has defined rule-of-law as revenge against those that dared to hold him accountable under the law, so now he has instructed DOJ to take retribution against those on his enemies list.

Jack Smith obviously doesn't know any older Black Americans if he's so proud of our rule of law its strength and persistence. Or Native Americans , or Japanese. The rule of law has endured for white people quite well , for quite a long time. Let's not pretend it is something it never was.

Captain America! In these times it is so uplifting to hear a decent man publicly maintain his integrity and try to find a way to hold power to account under such intense pressure. Trump and republicans should see this and reflect on how a life can be lived.

The church of England,spread their colinazation world wide. Christians have killed more people in the name of their god than any other religion on the planet. You don't have believe me,read history before white men like the Orange Idiot choose to rewrite it.

I didn't vote for any of this administration's madness 🥴 Never forget Jan 6, Epstein, 30573, Renee Good, and all the other atrocities perpetrated by those and those who enabled them. Nurenberg 2 coming to America 🧐

There is no Constitution which means no Amend. If people have not figured out with this Dangerous Dementia DON or “DDD” for short. There is no constitution for us only him when it’s convenient to use SCOTUS already showed they read the constitution differently.First thing abolish ICE WHO ARE NOT ICE

I stand with Jack Smith! Trump is a felon and a liar. I fear for my safety under his leadership and his racism toward my community and other people of color. Why does he think he’s superior just because he lacks melanin in his skin? That mindset is ignorant. God created us all in His image!