Trump’s Scamming at DOJ Accidentally Exposed by MAGA Dimwit Jim Jordan

THE DAILY BLAST with Greg Sargent

The New Republic

News, Politics

4.4 • 800 Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Former special counsel Jack Smith just confirmed that he’d amassed extensive evidence that Donald Trump willfully and knowingly broke the law in stealing classified documents at the end of his first term. Smith’s report on this may never be released. But House Judiciary Committee chairman Jim Jordan helpfully exposed a big Trump ruse here. Jordan is demanding that Smith testify to “prove” the Justice Department was “weaponized” against Trump, as Trump wants him to do. But Jordan will never seek Smith’s report on classified documents! In today’s installment, legal scholar Matthew Seligman, a fellow at the Constitutional Law Center, illuminatingly explains how Jordan exposed the scam underlying Trump’s whole approach to DOJ: Everything is about suppressing facts that show the prosecutions of Trump were actually legitimate. Seligman also discusses the recent removals of career DOJ prosecutors, how they’re getting fired for not being corrupt on Trump’s behalf, and how Trump himself is admitting all this right in public. Looking for More from the DSR Network? Click Here: https://linktr.ee/deepstateradio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:01.5	This is the Daily Blast from the New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR Network.
1:03.8	I'm your host, Greg Sargent. All of a sudden, a lot is happening on the legal front.
1:15.8	Former special counsel Jack Smith just revealed that he had collected a lot of damning evidence
1:21.1	that Donald Trump willfully hoarded classified documents as president the first time.
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