Former federal prosecutor Jack Smith, who led the Justice Department investigation into Donald Trump’s 2020 election interference and the purloining of classified documents, laughed off a GOP Senate Judiciary Committee trap, part of their years-long effort to deny the basic truth that what Smith was investigating was real: Trump did in fact plan and act to coordinate a coup.

Whatever soundbites the Republican majority had hoped to generate, the indisputably signature moment of the hearing was when Missouri Sen. Eric Schmitt thought he’d gotten Smith dead to rights attending a basketball game in Atlanta right around the time that the Georgia prosecution of Trump was mired in controversy over alleged conflicts of interest by District Attorney Fani Willis, insinuating that the two may have met to discuss their prosecutorial........

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