According to reports on Tuesday, a House Republican seems to have sent a type of warning to special counsel Jack Smith.
In an interview with Newsmax TV, Rep. Clay Higgins (R-La.) declared that Smith’s “days are numbered,” seemingly hinting that the GOP-controlled House might take action against him in reaction to earlier this week’s reports about Smith’s withheld warrant for user data from former President Donald Trump’s X platform account.
Information regarding “all users who have followed, unfollowed, muted, unmuted, blocked, or unblocked” Trump’s account was among the items of information sought in the warrant dated January 17.
Being on another of Jack Smith’s lists is something Higgins views as a badge of honour, she said on Newsmax’s “The Chris Salcedo Show.” “Let me just state that, good sir, American patriots will not stand by and watch as our nation crumbles; his days are numbered. With all of our might and attention, we are ready to battle within the bounds of the Constitution in a lawful, nonviolent manner.
During a court hearing concerning his lawsuit regarding sensitive documents earlier this month, Trump’s attorneys made a shocking discovery that might significantly tip the scales in his favour.
Investigative reporter Julie Kelly, who has been covering the proceedings on a regular basis, reports that on Wednesday, Trump’s attorneys presented evidence to U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon of “extensive communications” between the Justice Department, the National Archives, Joe Biden’s White House, and special counsel Jack Smith’s office before Trump was indicted.
The former president’s Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida was the subject of “years’ worth of security footage,” which Kelly mentioned on social media, among other “bombshell revelations,” according to The Western Journal.
She added that there is evidence of “‘extensive communications’ btw White House, NARA, intel agencies and DOJ/Jack Smith prior to indictment to determine which files to include.”
“To emphasise: Trump’s lawyers told Judge Cannon this afternoon they have evidence that the Biden White House collaborated with NARA, DOJ, and intel agencies to determine which documents to include in Jack Smith’s indictment,” she added to the X platform later.
Just the News reported in late August 2022, following the historic FBI raid on a former president’s home, that “the Biden White House worked directly with the Justice Department and National Archives to instigate the criminal probe into alleged mishandling of documents, allowing the FBI to review evidence retrieved from Mar-a-Lago this spring and eliminating the 45th president’s claims to executive privilege, according to contemporaneous government documents, long before it professed no prior knowledge of the raid on Donald Trump’s estate.”
“The memos show then-White House Deputy Counsel Jonathan Su was engaged in conversations with the FBI, DOJ and National Archives as early as April, shortly after 15 boxes of classified and other materials were voluntarily returned to the federal historical agency from Trump’s Florida home,” the outlet continued in its Aug. 22 report, adding:
By May, Su had informed the Archives that President Joe Biden would not oppose to the revocation of his predecessor’s executive privilege claims. This move allowed the Department of Justice to request that a grand jury issue a subpoena requiring Trump to produce any documents he still held from his time in office.
Several memoranda and emails between the various agencies in the spring of 2022, months before the FBI took the additional and unprecedented step of storming Trump’s Florida complex with a court-issued search warrant, provide a summary of the machinations.