Jack Smith is testifying today because House Republicans used their oversight authority to demand it. After Smith’s federal cases against Donald Trump ended without a trial or jury verdict, Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee insisted on public accountability and scheduled this hearing. Democrats did not initiate the hearing — Republicans did.
Republicans made Jack Smith’s public testimony happen — they exercised oversight authority to create the hearing, set the schedule, and put him on the record.
This is why Democrats rushed to cable news to preemptively defend Smith before he answered a single question under oath, portraying the hearing as Smith’s idea rather than the result of Republican oversight.
Jen Psaki’s MS NOW show followed a familiar pattern: bring on Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin and let him do what Democrats now do routinely on cable news — defend Democrats and argue the conclusion of a criminal case as if it were already decided.
While predicting Smith’s testimony, Raskin didn’t merely defend the prosecutor. He praised him, attacked Republicans, disparaged a federal judge, and declared Trump’s guilt outright — repeatedly and without hesitation.
Raskin said: “Which is to let him speak and to protect him from all the Rocky Horror Picture Show tactics that the Republicans are gonna be trying to throw out him, to bait him and knock him off track.
But look, we’re talking about one of America’s great prosecutors who has now, um, deeply schooled the Republicans on the Judiciary Committee as to what the ethical and professional responsibilities are of a real prosecutor in America.
Um. And he has testified publicly with remarkable concision and compelling logical rigor that Donald Trump acted to engage in a series of crimes to overthrow the 2020 presidential election.
And, uh, Jack Smith will testify about how he had overwhelming proof, proof beyond a reasonable doubt to demonstrate every element of the four different offenses he charged him with.
Now he’s not gonna be able to speak with the same kind of profuse detail about Donald Trump’s, uh, pilfering and hoarding illegally of various national security documents and classified documents because of this absurd order that still stands from, uh, Trump sycophant Judge Eileen Cannon down in Florida.
Uh, he is gonna be limited to just being able to speak about the things that were in his indictment and that are already, um, on the public record. But we’ll make that clear to everybody.
But our real point is to try to just give him a platform to speak to America.
Because, you know, so many of the Republicans said, uh, back when the violent insurrection happened and the attempted coup happened, well, we don’t really need to impeach Trump.
I mean, this is kind of where, um, uh, that McConnell went in the Senate. We don’t really need to impeach him because he can be prosecuted later.
Then they’ve done everything in their power, including on the Roberts court, to blockade the prosecution.
And so this is his opportunity as the special counsel to come forward and to speak to America about what exactly he found, what it is he was prepared to show in court, and what he believes about Donald Trump’s conduct on January 6th.
And he will be going up against an avalanche of propaganda and disinformation that we’ve seen over the last several weeks since January 6th, as Donald Trump continues to insist that he won a presidential election that he lost by more than 7 million votes, 306 to 232 in the Electoral College.
Jen Psaki: No question about it. And this is a perfect lead-up because we are ending the show with somebody who’s known Jack Smith for a very long time, who worked alongside him for years, to talk more about him and what to expect tomorrow.”
Did you hear that? “No question about it,” Psaki said — on a network that never shows the other side.
A Democratic congressman, hosted by a former Democratic White House press secretary, praised a Biden-appointed special counsel as “one of America’s great prosecutors,” accused Republicans of bad faith, labeled a sitting federal judge a “Trump sycophant,” and spoke in the language of conviction — “proof beyond a reasonable doubt” — even though no jury verdict exists. Skepticism was dismissed in advance as “propaganda and disinformation.” After the commercial break, Psaki planned to bring on another guest to further reinforce that narrative.
This was not news, legal analysis, or neutral commentary. It was political advocacy — propaganda presented as fact.
Overwhelming evidence doesn’t require the public to take a prosecutor’s word for it.
Raskin warned viewers about Republican propaganda.
What aired on MS NOW was Democrat propaganda.
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