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\u201cDo you swear or affirm, under penalty of perjury, that the testimony you\u2019re about to give is true and correct to the best of your knowledge, information and belief, so help you God?\u201d \u201cI do. No one should be above the law in this country, and the law required that he be held to account. So that is what I did. To have done otherwise on the facts of these cases would have been to shirk my duties as a prosecutor.\u201d \u201cYou, like the President\u2019s Men for Richard Nixon, went after your political enemies. Maybe they\u2019re not your political enemies, but they sure as hell were Joe Biden\u2019s political enemies, weren\u2019t they? They were Harris\u2019s political enemies. They were the enemies of the president, and you were their arm, weren\u2019t you?\u201d \u201cNo.\u201d \u201cSo, Mr. Smith, what evidence did you develop to suggest Trump knew he had lost the 2020 election?\u201d \u201cWe had evidence from a variety of sources, evidence from people who were close to Donald Trump and who he relied on, people who wanted him to win the election. Our investigation revealed that Donald Trump is the person who caused Jan. 6, that it was foreseeable to him and that he sought to exploit the violence.\u201d \u201cUnder your theory, people besides the president were involved in the unprecedented assault on American democracy, but you didn\u2019t find it necessary to charge them criminally.\u201d \u201cI had not yet charged anyone besides the president.\u201d \u201cYou didn\u2019t \u2014 you decided not to charge anybody but Donald Trump in that indictment.\u201d \u201cI made the decision to make the charges in this case.\u201d \u201cAnd, Mr. Smith, do you believe that President Trump\u2019s Department of Justice will find some way to indict you?\u201d \u201cI believe that they will do everything in their power to do that because they\u2019ve been ordered to by the president.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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