This is CBSI on the world. I'm John Batchel. The Trials of Donald Trump. I welcome my colleagues,

Andrew McCarthy, National Review Online. That is, MacArthur, American Greatness. We begin with the Smith

report, half of it, now released by direction of the Department of Justice and the resign,

Mr. Smith, is not speaking as of the moment, but I imagine he'll do much to explain the report

in coming days. I learned from Andrew McCarthy at the National Review Online that this is, having not

read it myself, a report entirely in the voice of the prosecutor. There is no, at least to my

understanding, response from the defendant, nor the defendant's representatives. Andy, a very good

evening to you. Is it unusual to see an

allegation without a defense in the Department of Justice? Good evening to you. Good evening,

John and Thaddeus. Well, there's no response from the defense in the report proper, but I think

probably anticipating what you raised, John, one of the appendices to the

report is a letter that was written by Trump's counsel to Attorney General Garland objecting to

the report and mainly objecting in principle to the release of the report. It's not much of a point by point taking on of the evidence in the case.

So it's not completely bereft of any defense presentation, but it pretty much is.

It's single, it's unilaterally in the voice of the prosecutor, much like a grand jury

presentation, much like an indictment. And I say that, John, because every time the Justice

Department puts out a press release in conjunction with an indictment, each of those press releases

has a standard disclaimer that an indictment, each of those press releases has a standard disclaimer that an indictment is not

evidence of anything, that it is only an allegation and that the defendant is presumed innocent

unless and until he is convicted at the conclusion or found guilty at the conclusion of a trial by a jury of his peers.

So by the Justice Department's usual measure of these things, Jack Smith's allegations mean nothing.

And his amplification of them in a one-sided prosecutor's presentation means nothing. But I guess what we should

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