The predicate for Jack Smith to prosecute President Trump for his efforts to “interfere in the 2020 election”, and thereby “challenge all democratic norms”, essentially boiled down to Jack Smith accusing President Trump of participating in a fraud when he challenged the outcome of the 2020 election.
To get beyond President Trump’s first amendment right to free speech, Jack Smith previously claimed to congress that Trump knowingly understood, “believed” that Joe Biden had won the election. That President Trump was told by senior Republican advisors that Biden had legitimately won the 2020 election, and that President Trump rejected the reality of the “truthful information” presented to him; instead choosing to launch a psychological operation against the American people, i.e. “fraud.”
However, in sworn testimony in the House today, Jack Smith admitted that President Trump “was believing anything that would keep him in office.” The key word here is “believe.” Within that statement, Smith revealed he had no case against Trump because President Trump believed he won the 2020 election. WATCH:
BUSTED! This is the Moment where Jack Smith REVEALS he NEVER had a Case against Trump. The President BELIEVED he WON (lots of ppl agree btw) —-POTUS believed, therefore NOT “falsity” or False Claims. The “criminal intent” is NOT there. Excellent Job by the @judiciaryGOP!!!! pic.twitter.com/INhYJ9ogva
— Greg Kelly (@gregkellyusa) January 23, 2026
This is what CTH previously pointed out from the deposition of Jack Smith. {GO DEEP}
If President Trump believed he won the election, he could not commit fraud by expressing his belief. Jack Smith’s entire predicate for the criminal investigation of President Trump was the charge of “fraud,” or intentional deception.
It is the charge of “fraud” which underpins the entirety of the case against Donald Trump, as pursued by Jack Smith. The charge itself is predicated on definitions of what constitutes truthful information, and within that subset of predicate you begin to realize just how important it is to professional leftists that they control information.
The case was dropped after the results of the November 2024 election, won by President Trump. However, if President Trump had not won that election, the prosecution would have continued.
Jack Smith notes in his testimony, in the most Machiavellian way, that his primary prosecution approach was to present “Republican” witnesses like Mike Pence, who Smith cunningly said he could not discuss as he was restricted from revealing grand jury testimony.
Smith was prepared to present witness testimony from Pence and other political “Republicans” who told President Trump that Joe Biden had legitimately won the election, and Trump needed to concede. This testimony then forms the baseline for the definition of “truthful information” that Trump rejected out of a malice mindset to continue clinging to power.
In essence, Smith defines what is “truth” (Biden won), then outlines how that truthful information was delivered and how President Trump dismissed it. Therefore, President Trump’s “mens-rea”, or state of mind, was one of promoting an intentional falsehood. According to the Lawfare approach selected by Smith, this mindset is the predicate that blocks President Trump from using his First Amendment right to speech as a defense.
Intentional fraud is not allowed under the protections of “free speech.” Jack Smith wanted to prove that President Trump was engaged in intentional fraud and wanted to prove his mindset therein through the use of Republican political voices who delivered information to President Trump.
Jack Smith sought to define “truth” and then counter the free speech defense by mob agreement on what constitutes the “truth.” Under this predicate, President Trump was being prosecuted for a thought crime, and Jack Smith sought to legally prove he knew his thoughts.
The only way Jack Smith could prove fraud would be to prove that President Trump believed the information about Joe Biden winning the election. Smith sought to prove Trump’s belief by presenting Republican voices who told President Trump he lost.
Whether you like or dislike President Trump, the issue here is alarming when contemplated.
A man tells you a chicken is a frog, you laugh. The man then brings 15 of your family members to tell you a chicken is a frog. You reject the absurdity of the premise, but the man brings forth hundreds more people to tell you the chicken is a frog, and if you do not accept that Chickens are Frogs, you will be defined as mentally impaired, institutionalized and become a ward of the state.
[Insert any similar metaphor needed, including “what is a woman.”]
When we consider the current state of sociological, societal or government manipulation of information, and/or the need for government to control information (mis-dis-mal-information) as an overlay, you can quickly see where this type of legal predicate can take us. Bizarro world becomes a dystopian nightmare.
Yes, it is also clear that Leftists, inside that closed-door committee hearing, are intending to impeach President Trump on these grounds if they successfully win the 2026 midterm election. However, that is not the critical takeaway from this deposition. Instead, the critical takeaway is how the Lawfare construct can be twisted and manipulated to create the legal means to the leftist ends.
Stop the Division!
We cannot allow these communist, Marxist and leftist-minded control agents get back into power.
It’s not about Trump. It’s about us.
High Inquisitor Jack Smith is a regression all the way back to the Dark Ages.
Mr Smith goes to Washington and deeply regrets it 😎
He’s among friends, he doesn’t care. Every once in a while some of them have to go in for a tongue lashing that is all a charade. He should be going through his own actual court case right now for Treason, yet nothing happens except a little TV badmouthing. If us regular folks could get away with that, many more would be lawless too.
He’s a stone cold sociopath
Absolute ghoul…..Reminds me of Ichabod Crane. Evil just seeping out his pores.
All leftists worship Satan and/or are braindead haters. This vile evil must be exterminated!
Why people worship Satan is for knowledge and power God doesn’t want men to have. “If you ask for a fish will you give him a serpent or if he asks for bread will you give him a stone? You being evil know how to give good gifts how much more your father in heaven”?
Some things we are not ready for, it will destroy if not understood.
These people are beguiled by the whispering of lies that they dream of. All throughout history man falls for ego not truth. To know thyself is great power it is a passage to all God offers but men cheat. We are but a “vapor” yet the damage we can do is immense. The good is usually not realized by the doer. It’s a walk in a furnace and many wait and watch for your collapse, or a stumble. Humility focuses us on Christ and our path is his, the spoils are our lords. He died for our chance to follow. Glory is all around us but never seen by the humble, the bond servant. Who chooses such a path? Only those who have felt Jesus love, Gods love. “As a deer thirsts after water”.
The Grand Inquisitor.
There I think that sounds better.
Humans like Jack Smith have existed since just after creation.
Does Cain and Abel ring a bell?
It’s called sin, and we are all infected. Some are worse than others. Some are better than others, but we are all capable of doing all kinds of mean, nasty stuff.
Now imagine where this would’ve went if President Trump ever conceded the 2020 election which he did not ever do.
They certainly would twist such a statement to support their lawfare operation.
Would PDJT have been able at anytime to present evidence to factually show the fraud was real and thus he didn’t believe Biden won? How about after midterm and heaven forbid the Dims are able to impeach him using this drivel?
Exhibit A: Fulton County, Georgia and recent 360+ fake ballots AND suitcases of ballots on video coming out from under a table
Exhibit B: Nevada
Exhibit C: Runbeck (sp?) in Arizona
Exhibit D: Pennsylvania truck driver with cargo of ballots.
Exhibit E: Michigan (?). Cardboard over the windows, kicking out Republican observers.
I am sure there’s more, but these exhibits immediately come to mind
Sorry, that should read “360,000 +”
In Georgia recently, it was admitted that 315,000 ballots were not matched up with signatures on envelopes, were still counted. And there was a hearing 2 days ago concerning ballots scanned more than once. People still cite the 60 court cases of fraud allegations as though they were actually heard by a judge. I think there was one that actually was heard in a courtroom; all others were deemed as having no standing and were shoved under the rug. If only…
If there is one thing PDT believes, it is that he won the 2020 Election.
Even small children in faraway countries understand this.
One of the interesting things about President Trump is that his beliefs are fairly consistent over time. Tapes of interviews he did earlier in his career show this.
In the case of 2020, no matter what others said or did, he maintained that he won the election. Now more and more people agree with him.
Those small children — and the rest of us — can count on his not being swayed by public opinion or by what politicians do when they agree with whoever pays the bills.
Ironically, it is because Biden was such a palpable awful president that people gave themselves permission to believe Trump won in 2020.
If Biden had been a great or good president, I dont think that would have happened.
It’s unlikely a person who had the experience, talent, and skills to be a “good” president would have been involved with the current Democrat party and the massive voting fraud. The two things don’t mesh.
I believe he won it too. He is not alone.
ALL the people at Jan 6 believed it.
And we who voted for him believe it too just as in the Kari Lake, AZ case.
I believed it from the minute they shut down the counting in the middle of the night.
Yes
Smith is known for judicial overreach and ignoring any law that is inconvenient to his ends. An arrogant buffoon who at very least needs to be disbarred and should most likely be put behind bars. If a group of people told Jack Smith that Trump was innocent, Smith would have then knowingly accused an innocent man of fraud. So depravation of rights under color of law — misusing the law for your own ends.
It is an absurd basis for a legal system which is why it is not the basis of ours and never has been. You are presumed innocent, Jack.
It probably rubbed off on him from his stint in the Hague with the International Criminal Court.
I don’t even understand why he was there, the United States does not recognize their authority and is not bound by their findings.
The ICC is a UN creation.
Think of the interrelation of Jack Smith with the Uniparty, globalist institutions, and a bunch of people who control far too much money and assets for anyone’s good.
Trillions are at stake.
A lot of people are just like Jack Smith, including The President’s former Vice President. Both Jack and Mike, along with a lot of other people discussed here in detail need to be held accountable for treason and all that it implies.
He’s a lot like Herr Weissmann regarding “judicial overreach and ignoring any law that is inconvenient to his ends”.
Lisa Monaco ….
The list goes on. DOJ been hiring like minded lawfare types since the Clinton administration at the least.
That Fact that not one forensic audit was allowed to verify the 2020 election results will forever cast doubt on the results. The Arizona audit was invalidated upon receipt of the ballot boxes with broken security seals on day one. This Fact alone is proof the election results from Arizona were not certifiable. The FBI agents who investigated Georgia’s election results must be brought before congress and explain the video of election officials running ballots multiple times throughout the tabulation machines and their findings that the election was fair. Who are they and where are they now.
Problem is – Congress is corrupt and cannot be trusted.
I still can’t stand Greg Kelly, he was actually spot on in that clip. What is it they say about a clock?
Kelly deep dives into many news topics…..I enjoy that aspect of his reporting. Especially his work into J6.
“My version of reality is all that matters and anyone who questions it is an awful person and shall henceforth be punished!!”
Every Leftist always and forever…AMEN!!
So? Trump would have brought witnesses (some of them experts) to say they told him the election was fraudulent and stolen from him.
Trump believed it then. He believes it still. So do millions.
Jack Smith had no case. Ever.
Is that even his real name?
…. I did ask same..loooong time ago…..
Trump’s witnesses were jailed for a reason.
“So do millions.”
I truly believe the number is in the billions, worldwide.
Jack Smith interfering with out Election is Treason…. and reminds me of a movie I saw once where a Traitor of their country took a helicopter ride.
our Election ^^
Lots of word hurdles for Mr Smith to get to “second hand.”
It is so much easier to just tell the truth Mr. Smith.
Jack Smith has nothing to worry about.
What happens to a nation when the people lose all faith in their justice system?
I am curious about how many tax payer dollars were paid to “Jack Smith” by the US taxpayers? Surely, he will have to give it all back on the grounds of unjust enrichment from persecuting , on false grounds the President of the United States. If that isn’t a crime, I don’t what that word means. Isn’t it time for prosecuting a President because “you believe you can read his mind” a crime?
Nonetheless, the premise that he had the status of a “Special Prosecutor” has been challenged in, I believe Aileen Cannon’s court. I cannot forget the bill/ price for the Robert Mueller “investigation.”, when he was most likely in the same “mind set” as Brandon.
Okay. Everyone is supposed to “get over these things.” I don’t dwell on them but I am certainly not going to get over any of it.
Overton
@overton_news
Even CNN is now turning on Jack Smith after his House Judiciary testimony.
CNN legal analyst Elie Honig zeroed in on the moment Republicans cornered Smith over rushing the Trump case right before the 2024 election — and Smith had no answer.
Cont and video linked….
It is not about Trump. It is about us. Our survival.
This is not a football game fellow patriots. This is about our country, the future of our children and their probable enslavement and even murder. This has already been demonstrated.
Our enemies have no respect for law, morals, God, fairness, or civility. Watch Hillary, Nancy, Pocahontas. Watch the Muslims. Watch the liberal Karen’s. They will absolutely take our homes, our property. Look at Boasburg.
It happened with J6. It is happening now.
We are going to have to be disruptive. We love our president, and his boldness makes many of us cringe. But gentlemanness, politeness, and being “presidential” are not going to cut it. No matter how bold PDJT gets.
We the people are going to have to get disruptive enough to overwhelm the careful systems built by communists, WEF, bankers, democrats, Muslims. You are either with the constitution or not.
They will call us names. Ridicule us. Gaslight us.
They are currently currently stealing us blind and continue to do so even when we have caught them red handed.
We arrest them. They go free.
We put them in jail. They escalate their crimes.
Are there any righteous lawyers?
The American Colonists talked enough among themselves that they gained the confidence to write the Declaration, then pledge their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor to defend it.
They committed themselves to unity to carry the win through to the Constitution.
They executed traitors. It was not pretty.
We the people must be doing more. But those of us with the greatest work ethic are under the yoke of slavery by the elite. They must be removed. Neutralized.
PDJT has done more than any one other person in setting back the internal enemies of this nation. He needs more help. Perhaps door to door. Church to church. School to school. After work meetings. Family gatherings.
Face to face accountability.
Endless lawsuits, sunlight, questions. The people in these dysfunctional destructive systems are too comfortable. We are not making them uncomfortable enough. Not to use the methods of Antifa. But the methods of Charlie Kirk. Of Donald Trump.
Think what we could do if we had 5000 of them. or just 100. Or just 10?
Funding is abundant for “grassroots” activities of NGO-subsidized leftist organizations. An example of one recently came to my attention is CNY Solidarity Coalition. I think it can be assumed that it’s a kind of organization that can be found nationwide. SIRDN: Syracuse Immigrant Refugee Defense Network – CNY Solidarity Coalition
The link was posted to a regional social media app in an appeal to naive do-gooders who would like to get training to be a “safe and legal ICE observer” and get inducted into the world of activism.
When a commenter pointed out that it is not observer-oriented in any neutral sense, but a political activist organization that clearly opposes the law that ICE is enforcing, citing statements and activities on their website, the poster removed the post. But in the meantime, no doubt many people who do not comment or upvote were able to see it.
That and the only other comment it had garnered in the short time it remained up are not to be underestimated in their “grassroots” educational value, IMO.
Holy smokes that’s a gold mine. Need the committee to subpoena it.
“all that he requested…” Not sure if that is all of it, however. It would be nice if I was wrong.
M
I hope all of the evil that he has sewn he will reap.
Did you see what Rep. Brandon Gill (R-TX) did to him today? Gill literally destroyed him with his near perfect questioning … no … cross examination.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/2014428670778134622.html
“Disgraced former J6 cop Michael Fanone”…..
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/2014475578309579257.html
This guy is some kind of DS operative.
I would love to see his finances.
“It is the charge of “fraud” which underpins the entirety of the case against Donald Trump, as pursued by Jack Smith. The charge itself is predicated on definitions of what constitutes truthful information, and within that subset of predicate you begin to realize just how important it is to professional leftists that they control information.”
There is your answer…why the “elites” have dropped climate change and gone all in for AI.
“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
—George Orwell, 1984
Put another way…updating Orwell…
Who controls the past controls the future.
Who controls the present controls the past.
Who controls artificial intelligence controls it ALL!
Your thoughts on AI are the stuff of nightmares! Horrible, horrible nightmares!!
A “belief” is a belief, a theory, there is no truth in it, its just a belief.
Truth does not change, if it did it would not be truth.
DJT on the other hand based his case on the “truth”.
This whole thing may wash over when the truth of Election fraud is clearly revealed into Public consciousness.
Unchecked power goes to their heads and they think they are untouchable.
“Promoting intentional falsehoods” is a uni-party trait in their bid to hold onto power and continuity of their government. A pox on them all.
Now, Proud Boys and those like them can almost feel vindicated now, though we should probably await the results of the trial which I am sure will ensue.
“I told you so” will now be added to the list of Donald Trump’s litany of complaints about the 2020 election. O wait, he has been vilified for saying this for years! Guess Trump is always right (correct)!
You cannot convince an insane person (democrat) to become sane. But, if by chance you Do convince….you simply have an insane person (democrat) believing they’re sane. Such is the state we’re in….
… and now we see the results of our Senator’s acceptance in 1998 of Clinton’s defense “Well I suppose that depends on what the meaning of ‘is’ is”,
Well Trump says he wants to end communism in Cuba . Then I’d say the first place to start would be right here in your own country otherwise you too would sell us out for someone else.
I can only pray to God that He gives Trump the strength and guidance he needs to get the job done. Let God’s Will be done! Amen!
The 2026 midterms will decide if American continues on its way or is destroyed.
The alt-Leftist Torquemadas were carrying out their own version of an Inquisition.
This only shows the USA is not a country of laws, laws are for ye not thee
Watching Jack Smith as he dances, pivots, and twirls around obvious and documented facts is like watching a malignant narcissist as he insists to his wife that the woman she found in bed with him was trying out for a Hollywood movie role. He was merely coaching her as she rehearsed.
I so agree with your observation that it is he, Jack Smith, who is the narcissist.
“That President Trump was told by senior Republican advisors that Biden had legitimately won the 2020 election”
Were those senior Republican advisors closet Democrats McConnell and McCain?
“Smith defines what is “truth” (Biden won), then outlines how that truthful information was delivered and how President Trump dismissed it.”
The truth is that more ballots were tallied for Biden. After all, when entire precincts “voted” 100% for Biden, we all know those are trusted ballots. Just like we know the Moon is made entirely of green cheese!
As an aside, was Jack secretly destroying the Democrat’s transgender argument for boys in girl’s sports and bathrooms by saying that believing is not allowed?
Good point.
Thanks to Greg Kelly of Newsmax for deep diving in many news stories to find the truth.
I got tired of going down dry holes with 2020. But is there anyone who has put together a single, comprehensive run-down of what took place? Do we actually know what happened? All I’ve been able to get is bits and pieces but nothing concrete and all the individual investigations have turned up either nothing or things that are suspicious but not provable.
😳 Might I suggest you turn off CNN, et al
Normally I wouldn’t bother with you, but now I’m genuinely curious. If the only response you have to a simple, straightforward question is sophomoric, juvenile snark… why even bother replying at all? I’d really like to hear your answer.
And, since we’re on it, what in my question made you think I get my news from CNN?
Exactly what “dry holes”? They were flooded with fraud.
Where are you getting your “bits and pieces” of information?
”et al” means “and others.”
The Gateway Pundit, et al, have done extensive investigations of the fraud committed in many States in the 2020 election. Thousands of “mail-in” (meaning they have to be folded to put in an envelope) ballots showed up in Georgia with only the “Biden” oval colored in. All of those ballots were exactly the same coloring in; meaning, run through a copier. They all had “no fold” to the paper (that’s some contortionist paper right there), no down-ballot (no US/county/city) elections were made.
Hopefully I be none to much a sophomoric simpleton in me response for you too understand.
That global extortionist blackmailer belongs behind bars for life x10
Shows just how powerful and conniving satan’s disciples are.
This will never end until the end.
MAGA
God Bless America and President Trump
If losers are not allowed to challenge election results, then what was the 2000 election about?
I really want to see 30pence and the rest of the RepubliCON plotters to prove the 2020 election was 100% fraud free and the answer isn’t someone signing a “certification”.
I want to know why certain data isn’t completely transparent.
I want patriots to be able to show their data and arguments in front of their accusers.
People might not know that the Constitution created only one Court. The entire system of subordinate Courts was dutifully created by the first Congress with the “Judicial Act of 1789.” (It’s all still there. Very interesting reading.)
Therefore, original jurisdiction concerning the structure and operation of all “inferior” Courts rests, not with the SCOTUS (who administers the system), but with Congress. If Congress changes the rules, the SCOTUS must abide.
So, that is where and how “meaningful reform” must occur. The strategies now used by so-called “Lawfare” are obvious and destructive, and they must be identified and outlawed. We cannot ask SCOTUS to do that. Reform of a corrupted system cannot occur within that corrupted system. But, the “creator” of that system can.
Well since the AZ audit PROVED that he WON the 2020 election, President Trump has ample evidence to BELIEVE that he won the election because he DID and Jack Smith knows this.
[Insert any similar metaphor needed, including “what is a woman.”]
2+2=5.
The real danger does not lie in who resorts to these tactics today, but in the normalization of legal frameworks that criminalize dissent and allow intent to be inferred from belief. In moments of urgency, the pressure of the present tends to impose immediate solutions; however, a free society endures only when long-range vision guides and constrains the shortsightedness of the moment.
Once established, such precedents do not belong to any ideology or to any era. They remain available to anyone who concentrates power, regardless of their stated intentions or proclaimed values. Precisely for this reason, no project that criminalizes belief, imposes truth through forced consensus, or treats disagreement as evidence of bad faith can legitimately claim to be defending the future.
No free society, in the present or the future, can afford to sacrifice the destiny of tomorrow to the demands of today, regardless of who is in power.
Bannon today with Julie Kelly, Julie talks about why Amazon deplatformed Parlor – and all the other censorship – they needed all J6 footage removed as it showed cops were blowing up patriots to work them up, absolutely a fedsurrection, such BS 1500 plus patriots did a day of time.
they are planning to revive all of this after mid-terms 2026
Hillary Clinton still believes she won the 2016 election. You gonna hold her over on charges, Jack?
Hmmm, didn’t think so – hypocrite.
I normally don’t like it when reviewers talk over a video but this one minute clip is profound.