Republican Sen. Tom Cotton (AR) battled NBC's "Meet the Press" host Kristen Welker on Sunday over the Oct. 2 release of Special Counsel Jack Smith's 165-page motion against Donald Trump alleging election interference before and after the 2020 presidential election.
Following a ruling by the Supreme Court on presidential immunity, Smith argued that Trump's actions were as a candidate, not as official conduct as president of the United States.
The Arkansas senator blasted Smith's unsealed legal brief as a "temper tantrum" — and then some.
Well, what I think about what Jack Smith did this week is that it was a temper tantrum from a deranged fanatic who is angry that he keeps losing time and time again in the Supreme Court over the course of his career.
Nicely played and precisely correct. Smith has been on a vendetta against Trump from the outset, and the more foolish he looks, the more foolish his next actions.
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Cotton told Welker that Smith's actions this close to the election constituted election interference.
This is unverified, un-cross-examined hearsay from grand jury testimony, which usually isn’t revealed publicly for that reason. He went to court. He asked for special permission to file a brief that’s four times as long as a normal brief and to have it disclosed less than 30 days before the election. This is professional misconduct in all likelihood by Jack Smith and it should be investigated.
Prediction: It'll never happen.
Cotton incisively argued that Trump didn't incite violence, as Smith's filing claims, but instead told the protesters at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, to “protest peacefully and patriotically," again calling Smith guilty of election interference.
This is a perfect example of actual election interference: Jack Smith violating Department of Justice regulations to try to get out as much unverified, so-called evidence as he has because he’s angry that he lost and the Democrats don’t think they can beat Donald Trump on issues like inflation and immigration.
The Democrats' belief that Harris can't beat Trump on inflation and the economy is with good cause.
As my colleague Sister Toldjah reported in late September, a Susquehanna poll of voters in Pennsylvania, a crucial swing state, found Trump blistering Harris on inflation and the economy in general by 23 points, 57-23.
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And on the continuing illegal alien disaster — a/k/a the Biden-Harris border crisis — Trump also dominates.
In a recent example in Wisconsin, another key state, Trump led Harris on border security, 49 percent to 37 percent. Why Harris got 37 percent would be a mystery were it not for the truism that Democrats appear to hate Trump more than they love America.
Finally, when Welker asked Cotton if Trump indeed lost the 2020 election, the senator deftly answered:
You had states that were changing their election practices or election laws, sometimes in violation of the Constitution. You had networks combining with big tech to suppress what we now know to be a truthful story about Hunter Biden’s laptop and the evidence that it exposed about Biden family corruption.
Let's call Cotton's answer an example of expertly transversing a tightrope.