Trump’s Sudden Eruption of Rage at Jack Smith Reveals a Deeper Fear

THE DAILY BLAST with Greg Sargent

The New Republic

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🗓️ 27 September 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Donald Trump has been quiet about January 6th lately. But this week, he suddenly unleashed an epic rant on social media about Special Counsel Jack Smith, raging about false new claims on the right that the “deep state” deliberately allowed the insurrection to go forward—against Trump’s will. The real cause of Trump’s fury? Smith is set to submit a court filing detailing his evidence of Trump’s alleged January 6th related crimes—some of which may become public. We talked to Politico reporter Kyle Cheney, author of a new report on these machinations, who helps illuminate what new revelations we may soon learn about—and why Trump should worry about them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:00.1	I'm your host, Greg Sargent.
1:12.9	Donald Trump has been pretty quiet about January 6th lately, but out of nowhere he suddenly erupted at Special Counsel Jack Smith, unleashing an epic rant on social media about supposed new revelations
1:19.2	that the deep state deliberately allowed the violent insurrection to go forward against his will.
1:26.0	We don't think it's a coincidence that Trump is exploding like this,
1:29.9	because Jack Smith is submitting a court filing as we speak, detailing his full case against
1:36.0	Trump's alleged January 6th-related crimes. And depending on how that goes, the public could
1:41.7	learn a lot of new information about what Trump did that day
1:44.9	and in the run up to it. Today we're talking about all this with Politico reporter Kyle Cheney,
1:50.9	who to our mind is one of the best chroniclers of the legal machinations around January 6th out there.
1:56.9	Really glad to have you on, Kyle. And good to be with you. Thank you. That was very kind.
2:02.0	All right. So Trump's latest claim on truth social is that House Republicans have uncovered smoking gun proof that Trump actually did call for 10,000 National Guard troops to come to the Capitol that day, and that deep state subversives disregarded that order.
2:18.8	Trump said this proves he did nothing wrong.
2:21.3	Now, the January 6th committee completely debunked the idea that Trump called in troops.
2:25.5	We saw that in the report.
2:26.5	But can you walk us through what this new house GOP finding is supposed to be and what the reality is?
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