Special counsel, Jack Smith, finally hits Donald Trump with a variety of charges related to the 2020 election and January 6th.

We examine the bomb chill indictment from all available angles.

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So finally, the other shoe dropped yesterday, Jack Smith, the special counsel who was appointed

to investigate Donald Trump's activities surrounding the election of 2020 and January 6th,

and also appointed to look into his handling of classified documents.

He has now filed a second case against Donald Trump.

The classified documents case is going to be held down in Florida.

Now he has filed a federal indictment alleging multiple crimes with regard to January 6th and election 2020.

According to the Wall Street Journal, Trump was indicted Tuesday in an unprecedented criminal case accusing the former president of trying to subvert the will of American voters through his attempts to cling to power after he lost the 2020 election.

Here was at Jack Smith yesterday announcing the indictment and making it all about January 6th.

And as we'll see, this is sort of fascinating because it's political.

I mean, when I say it's political, I don't just mean that he is saying things that are political

in nature. I mean that this indictment itself is political. See, in order for an indictment to actually

have any teeth, the crimes that are statutory in nature, the elements of the crimes must be

fulfilled. Alleging that somebody did a bad thing to you doesn't make it a crime. If I say something

mean to you, you may not like it.

I may being a jerk, but that doesn't mean that I just committed a crime. A crime is a statutorily defined thing. And you have to hit the elements of that crime in order for you to go to jail over that crime. The problem in this particular case is that there are a lot of things that a lot of people don't like about what Donald Trump did between the election of 2020 and January 6th.

I think, for example, he was not telling

the truth when he suggested that the election had actually been won by him that formal voter

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