A Contrarian Take on Volume One of Jack Smith's Report [View all]

https://contrarian.substack.com/p/a-contrarian-take-on-volume-one-of

The fact that we are already familiar with almost all of the facts in the first volume of Jack Smith's final report on January 6th and Donald Trump's attempted self-coup, makes them no less horrifying.

The report lays out in surgical detail the five chapters of Donald Trump's effort to sabotage the 2020 election and perpetuate himself in power.

That begins with his pressure campaign to get state officials to reverse the election results, moves through his fraudulent elector scheme, then covers squeezing both DOJ and then Mike Pence to do his bidding, before culminating with the violence of January 6.

But because he has achieved through the ballot box what he failed to do through his 2020 post-election conduct, we now face the nightmare of a president who will have those same levers of power, and experience in how to use them. What’s more, this time he'll likely be surrounded by sycophants rather than of “grown-ups” in the room.

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