Jack Smith’s Tyrannical Arrogance

Smith believes the government can prosecute any of us for rejecting official ‘truths.’

American  Thinker 

Jack Smith, the special prosecutor who attempted to put President Trump in prison for acknowledging that the 2020 election was tainted by fraud, testified before the House Judiciary Committee the week before Christmas.  Here are the video and transcript of his deposition.  Smith’s testimony is disturbing because his argument in favor of prosecuting the president boils down to this: (1) Every sensible person knows that Joe Biden won the 2020 election.  (2) For President Trump to pretend otherwise reveals that he is knowingly telling a “lie.”  (3) By using this “lie” to undermine the 2020 election results, Trump committed fraud against the U.S. government and the American people.

Consider how dangerous this line of reasoning is.  Essentially, Smith claims to believe that certain “truths” cannot be disputed.  In the case of the 2020 election, if enough certified “experts” in the press claim that something is “true,” then anybody who claims to believe otherwise is maliciously spreading a “lie.”

When it comes to the 2020 election, however, many things about Joe Biden’s supposed “victory” never made sense.  For starters, President Trump won almost every bellwether county — areas whose voters routinely choose the winner — across the nation.  After the press “officially” called the election for Biden (four days after America’s putative Election “Day”), The Epoch Times pointed out an “intriguing phenomenon”: For forty years, “19 counties in the nation have always voted for the winner, be it Republican or Democrat.”  In 2020, eighteen of those nineteen counties voted for President Trump by an average margin of sixteen points!  The one county that went for Biden is in Washington state, and Joe’s margin was a measly three points.

Furthermore, among fifty-eight bellwether counties that had correctly picked the president since 2000, fifty-one of them went for Trump by an average of fifteen points!  Biden won the other seven by roughly four points.  In Indiana’s Vigo County, a historic bellwether county that has picked every presidential winner correctly since 1888 save two, Trump won by fifteen points (even though an Emerson Poll conducted just before the election showed Trump and Biden tied)!

As The Epoch Times reported in November 2020, “Bellwethers aren’t a crystal ball.”  Their streaks inevitably end.  But what is “striking is for it to end so radically.”  Isn’t it strange that corporate news publications never reported these facts to the American people?  If a rational observer knew nothing else about the 2020 presidential election, the tale of the bellwether counties would be sufficient to give him pause about the election outcome’s legitimacy.  

Then consider this: Joe Biden supposedly won over eighty-one million votes in 2020 — four million more than President Trump won in 2024 and over fifteen million more than Barack Obama won in 2012.  Joe Biden has never had high national polling numbers.  His previous attempts to win the presidency were disasters in which he drowned in single digits.  Yet we are supposed to believe that he won more votes in 2020 than any candidate in American history?  We are supposed to believe that uninspiring Joe Biden crushed Obama’s vote totals, even though Democrats still hail Obama today as the most inspiring political candidate of all time?  The idea that perennially unpopular Joe Biden is somehow the most popular political candidate in American history just doesn’t pass the “smell test.”  

If we knew nothing else about the 2020 election except that President Trump won nearly every bellwether county by double-digits and that Joe Biden somehow “won” fifteen million more votes than Democrat rockstar Barack Obama, it would be entirely reasonable for us to wonder whether the election was on the up-and-up.  

Yet we do know more.  We know that Georgia and other battleground states ignored their own election laws to certify challenged votes.  We know that Democrat-controlled jurisdictions in battleground states reported vote totals that not only exceeded the number of registered voters but also generated implausible 100% returns for Biden.  We know that Democrat judges permitted the unlawful use of anonymous mail-in ballots in violation of statutory law, that Democrat secretaries of state permitted unverified ballots (many without signatures) to be counted in violation of statutory law, and that Democrat attorneys general refused to investigate allegations of election fraud even after witnesses signed affidavits attesting to their firsthand knowledge of crimes.  We know that there were numerous allegations of straight-up election fraud during the extra four days of post-election vote-counting and that the very few allegations that managed to reach a courtroom were dismissed on procedural grounds before ever being adjudicated on the merits.

We know that fifty-one Intelligence Community officials conspired to cover-up Hunter Biden’s criminally damning “laptop from Hell” by lying to the American people and claiming that Hunter’s personal computer had all the hallmarks of “Russian disinformation.”  We know that social media companies censored the laptop story and many other stories that were harmful to Joe Biden’s campaign, while actively suppressing the reach of social media posts from Americans who supported President Trump.  We know that the corporate news media ran stories throughout the election cycle that were nearly 100% positive for Joe Biden and 100% negative for President Trump. 

The corporate news machine, in fact, was so proud of its efforts to manipulate the 2020 election in Joe Biden’s favor that Molly Ball wrote a piece for Time the following February about the “secret history of the 2020 election.”  In that article, she brags that Biden won because of “a well-funded cabal of powerful people, ranging across industries and ideologies, working together behind the scenes to influence perceptions, change rules and laws, steer media coverage and control the flow of information.”  Although Molly’s essay reads like an admission of guilt, she repeats the mantra of Deep State liars everywhere: “They were not rigging the election; they were fortifying it.”  Sure, Molly.  And when Somalis commit large-scale fraud and steal from American taxpayers, they’re not robbing our country but making it stronger.

What I have briefly outlined here in a few hundred words is a puddle dropped in the ocean of words that have been written to describe the inexplicable vote totals and copious allegations of fraud that undermined the legitimacy of the 2020 election.  A reasonable observer could not possibly look at all this and summarily dismiss the abundant evidence for electoral misconduct, violations of statutory law, and the unlawful certification of unsigned and unverified anonymous mail-in ballots.

Yet Jack Smith has told Congress that because he, The New York Times, CNN, Democrat secretaries of state, the presidents of every Ivy League university, Molly Ball, Norm Eisen, Andrew Weissmann, Marc Elias, Nancy Pelosi, Mitch McConnell, The Bulwark, and other anti-Trump RINOs all swear the 2020 election was totally aboveboard, that makes it a fact!

Do you see how dangerous this kind of demagoguery is?  These are the same people who have told us for a century that man-made global cooling/warming/climate change/extreme weather was going to kill everyone on the planet in the “next few years” unless we allow communist government officials to control all economic activity and relinquish all modern conveniences for Paleolithic subsistence living.  These are the same people who claim that men can magically become women.  These are the same people who covered up COVID’s likely release from a Chinese bioweapons lab, insisted that experimental mRNA injections are “safe and effective vaccines,” bankrupted small businesses for no reason, locked people in their homes, and censored scientific debate.  

These institutional “experts” can’t be trusted as arbiters of “truth.”  They lie for a living.  Yet Jack Smith believes that he and his ideological comrades should be entitled to prosecute any of us for rejecting their manufactured narratives.  Such tyrannical arrogance will tear this nation apart.