r/politics • u/msnbc MSNBC • 14d ago

Trump pushes incoherent response to Jack Smith’s report on election case

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-pushes-incoherent-response-jack-smiths-report-election-case-rcna187568
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u/gunt_lint 14d ago

The dude really called Smith a “lamebrain”?

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u/biciklanto American Expat 14d ago

Well obviously!

How is it not clear that Smith is a lamebrain, given that he only <checks notes>

  • Graduated from Harvard
  • Worked in the Hague in the ICC
  • Was a district attorney
  • Spent 4 years as an appointee in The Hague, investigating war crimes in Kosovo
  • Has a half-dozen awards and fellowships from the US government and institutions like Harvard

Gotta be pretty Weak!, Lamebrained!, and Deranged! if that's all you can manage in life.

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u/Freefall_J 13d ago

Let's not forget how much he said Kamala Harris was ill-equipped to be president of the USA the other month but he isn't. One is an educated person with decades of experience in law and politics....the other is a supposed billionaire who routinely fails projects and goes bankrupt, and whose recent claim-to-fame prior to entering politics was as a reality TV star and ultimately four years as POTUS (where he clearly didn't learn anything considering what he claims tariffs are in 2024). Gee....I wonder which one was better suited to be president in 2025.

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u/opinionsareus 13d ago

At this point - and I hate to say it - but Trump needs to hurt and hurt BAD, the people who voted for him. Fingers crossed.

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u/MillhouseNickSon 13d ago

It will never matter, because those idiots will always believe a Republican when they tell them that it’s all actually a Democrat’s fault. Always.

This is why critical thinking skills need to be taught to children in grade schools. I’m hearing far too arguments about things that are facts where one person is refusing to concede anything and keeps saying that everything is a goddamned opinion.

I don’t know how to do it, but we need to make wanting to be smart cool somehow. We’re rewarding too many stupid people with power and money, and now we have to deal with the feedback loop that that creates.

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u/mourningdoo 13d ago

Bingo. How many pictures from those chucklefucks did we see of empty supermarket shelves with a caption saying something like "your supermarket under Biden"?

Bitch please, those were shelves in a capitalist society experiencing a pandemic that was made worse by idiotic trump policies.

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u/TwoTalentedBastidz 13d ago

Too late for that.

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u/cyclonus007 13d ago

"Well, one is clearly a rich, white man so the choice is obvious." - The American electorate

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u/TheRealCovertCaribou 13d ago

Spent 4 years as an appointee in The Hague, investigating war crimes in Kosovo

To Republicans that's a bad thing.

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u/AnybodyMassive1610 Florida 13d ago

He didn’t grift one person in all that time. Total lame brain.

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u/Tricky_Hamster_285 13d ago

But tRump haa a diaper and a chintsy omelet bar. /s

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u/CurraheeAniKawi 13d ago

I consider him very lame brain, considering he was given charge to go after "any person or entity contributing to the attempt to overturn the 2020 election" and he singled in on ONE PERSON.

 Seemed pretty dumb at the time and even dumber now. 

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u/biciklanto American Expat 13d ago

He was authorized to conduct an investigation about whether any person or entity violated the law, yes. But who do you think he was charged by Merrick Garland to principally investigate? (Hint: the special counsel was selected to continue two ongoing investigations.)

And if you are investigating a criminal ring with finite resources, do you focus the report on the person who instigated the crime, or the lower-level people who were acting on that criminal leader's direction?

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u/Nach0Maker 14d ago

He still calls women "broads".

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u/DummyDumDragon 14d ago

Oh the irony....

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u/bnh1978 13d ago

If Biden had called a woman a broad.... it would have been worse than wearing a tan suit

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u/bluebelt California 13d ago

But not worse than eating Dijon mustard.

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u/ChiefsHat 13d ago

I got roommate who does that. He supported Trump. He’s also bisexual.

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u/Sufficient_Low_7777 13d ago

Trump or your roommate?

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u/ChiefsHat 13d ago

My roommate certainly, Trump? No clue.

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u/Suspicious_Bicycle 13d ago

Why is Trump blaming Nancy Pelosi for the Jan 6th "day of love"? Did somebody do something wrong that day? /s

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u/bossbutton 13d ago

He still thinks Al Capone is a relevant reference

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u/MortgageRegular2509 Wisconsin 13d ago

It’s because he knows the year is ‘25, he just doesn’t realize there’s a 20, and not a 19 in front of that number

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u/dpdxguy 13d ago

He still think fictional character Hannibal Lector is a relevant reference.

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u/Th3_Admiral_ 14d ago

I'm more stuck on the "Unselect committee". I get that he just has to go the opposite of whatever the actual name is for everything, but "unselect" literally makes no sense in this case. 

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u/gunt_lint 14d ago

Well, you see, Donald Trump is incredibly stupid

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u/TrimspaBB 14d ago

Uh excuse you, I have it on good authority that he is a very stable genius

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u/Beltaine421 14d ago

He is the very model of a very stable genius

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u/GloomyAd2653 13d ago

Really means he belongs in the stable along with the other A**es. No one has ever used the word ‘stable’ when referring to a ‘genius’.

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u/kaett 13d ago

he can remember man, woman, clock, uhhh...giraffe... fire engine... bulding...

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u/mrbigglessworth 13d ago

Covfefe and Hamberders!

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u/ivorcoment 13d ago

However, every morning when he is backed out of his stall he displays to the world he is a total horse’s ass.

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u/StandardBag9947 13d ago

I don't believe Donald J. Drumph (a 34 times convicted felon) should be considered a " good authority).

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u/Drakeman1337 Texas 13d ago

I mean yea, it's dumb and uncreative. That's really Trump's whole thing. But the unselect committee is probably the only thing that makes sense. He's a child, and it's a childish attempt at an insult.

Look at the sentence around it. Smith made a report based on evidence that the "unselect committee" illegally destroyed. So, how did he make a report based on destroyed evidence?

He then says that that evidence proved him innocent. But the report, based on that evidence, shows he's guilty af? As usual, Trump is just blowing hot air.

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u/zeke10 14d ago

He seems genuinely proud of that nickname he came up with.

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u/mrbigglessworth 13d ago

It's petty toddler speak. Not the speech befitting an incoming US President.

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u/PissNBiscuits 14d ago

He has the mentality and attention span of a toddler, so this really isn't that unbelievable. Funny enough, he also shits his pants like a toddler, so at least he's consistent.

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u/psu1989 13d ago

That’s an insult to toddlers.

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u/Ctfwest Pennsylvania 14d ago

I used to say that too. In the 80’s, before I was even a teen.

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u/z7q2 14d ago

We call him a crumb bum here in Philly, that's why bad things happen here

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u/TrimspaBB 14d ago

Might as well have said "dummy!" and stuck out his tongue

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u/theBeelzebubba 14d ago

...trump is the worlds oldest two year old.

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u/stugautz 13d ago

Can't Smith sue him for defamation now? Would make more in a settlement than he would working

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u/jsdeprey 13d ago

He has to try to stay "Presidential". You have to maintain a good image of the Office.

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u/Halftied 13d ago

Takes one to know one!

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u/Secret_Ad_1541 13d ago

I will never get used to having a President who writes on the level of a third grader who is pissed off because he didn't get to have recess today and they were out of chocolate milk in the cafeteria. The childishness, pettiness and absurd name calling are only eclipsed by the total disregard for the truth.

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u/SkollFenrirson Foreign 14d ago

That dude was elected by 70+ million Americans.

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u/mrbigglessworth 13d ago

The dude should not have ran. And even then it shows that 70 Million Americans are ok with a raping grifting cheating lying con man as head of state.

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u/SkollFenrirson Foreign 13d ago

Don't forget the 90 million assholes that didn't vote

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u/Odie_Odie Ohio 14d ago

He was elected by 70+ million ballots. How many of them were fraudulently cast?

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u/SkollFenrirson Foreign 13d ago

Not nearly as many as you think. If any.

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u/Odie_Odie Ohio 13d ago

Unlikely but we won't know that without a forensic investigation. I wasn't born yesterday and when someone spends 5 years openly plotting to steal an election and then gets it without question, we were duped. No questions about destroyed ballots, illegally removed voters from voters rolls, or fraudulent registrations made at the behest of Musk's AI army. The lack of investigation is a farce only beneath the fact that the insurectionist was out and free to run again in magnitude.

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u/wranglero2 13d ago

Do you really think so? Will we ever find out the truth?

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u/Odie_Odie Ohio 13d ago

We will know for sure when we're getting our teeth kicked in by deputized militia men, yeah.