I stand by my decisions as special counsel, including the decision to bring charges against President Trump.

Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in criminal activity.

If asked whether to prosecute a former president based on the same facts today,

I would do so regardless of whether that president was a Democrat or a Republican.

No one.

No one should be above the law in this country, and the law required that he be held to account.

So that is what I did.

Hi again, everybody.

It's now 5 o'clock here in Washington, D.C.

This show, Deadline White House, debuted the day that Donald Trump fired Jim Comey.

He fired him for refusing to look the other way in the Mike Flynn case, among other actions

that Donald Trump viewed as annoying and disloyal. Since that first broadcast, we have endeavored

to chronicle Donald Trump's vicious war against the rule of law in our country. And no one

understands what Trump's attacks against the rule of law look like better than that man,

former special counsel Jack Smith. So much of what we know about Donald Trump's efforts to

undo his defeat in the 2020 presidential election against Joe Biden and his mishandling of

some of the country's most sensitive national security secrets is because of the tireless work of Jack Smith and his team.

More than anyone else in the country, he represented a threat to Donald Trump because he followed

the facts and they led him deep inside Donald Trump's government and political coalition.

The facts reveal crimes and those crimes were serious enough

to represent a very real risk of conviction at trial for Donald Trump. That's the standard

to indict somebody. And because of that fact, Donald Trump has called Jack Smith's horrible things,

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