Josh Hawley accuses Jack Smith of indicting "random people" (Whatta moron, they got this 3rd guy, on video, moving boxes, which they showed him RIGHT after he lied and said he hadn't done so. Step LIVELY Josh on those gazelle like legs, Josh, the way you did when those traitors you give you little fist pump almost strung your ass up, lol)
Friday, July 28, 2023 at 5:11:17p PDT
Josh Hawley, who graduated from Stanford with the highest honors before receiving a Yale law degree, is not an ignoramus. In fact, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and Stanford Professor emeritus David M. Kennedy called him, "arguably the most gifted student I taught in 50 years." Sadly, this intellectual discernment has abandoned Josh, and he is now just a partisan hack.
In an interview with Fox’s Laura Ingraham, Hawley offered his thoughts on the superseding indictment in the Mar-a-Lago documents case that Jack Smith had filed with the Federal court in South Florida on Thursday. Predictably he was not happy. Toeing the MAGA line, Josh dismissed the 60-page document as both the capricious whim of a misguided prosecution and a distraction.
Referring to the newly added defendant, Carlos de Oliveira, Hawley told Ingraham:
Random? What does Hawley mean? That De Oliveira was some poor shlub who Smith indicted just for the hell of it? Hardly. If Hawley had read the indictment — I doubt he bothered, he already knew what his reaction would be — he would have seen on page 29 that:
A reasonable person would not view De Oliveira’s indictment as ‘random’ — unless they believed that Trump Employee 4 was a figment of Smith’s imagination. This fabrication would be completely irrational, as inventing testimony would destroy the Special Prosecutor’s credibility and reduce an air-tight case to a flaccid balloon. Note: we now know "Trump Employee 4 is Yuscil Taveras, an IT worker.
I understand why Hawley might think that Smith would be dishonest, as he is a member of a party that habitually creates witnesses to crimes out of whole cloth — and then argues they cannot find them. But back in the real world, this indictment is now in the hands of Trump’s personal judge, Aileen Cannon, who even Hawley cannot accuse of being out to get the serial indictee.
Hawley then floats his second absurdity. That the indictment was a distraction from the Hunter Biden plea deal falling apart:
Hawley is secure in the knowledge he does not need to be rational. He is talking to the base, who are eager consumers of everything that confirms their bias, with no analysis or fact-checking necessary. However, if you do think about it, Hawley’s theory is nuts.
He would have us believe that Smith is coordinating with the Trump-appointed federal prosecutor, David Weiss, in the Hunter Biden case. Further, Hawley’s case rests on the fact that Smith’s team would write an evidentially-supported and thoroughly researched 60-page indictment and jack would keep it in his back pocket on the off-chance the judge would question Hunter’s plea deal. Can Josh point to a single pundit who reported the deal was even at risk?
Hawley could have been somebody. But he has chosen to take the path of madness. Josh salutes his solidarity with insurrectionists. He writes books on manhood but flees when the going gets tough. Hawley claims to be deeply religious and imbued with Christian values. But he is a serial liar, a prominent election denier, and a racist antisemite.
I will let his erstwhile fan Professor Kennedy have the last word. After Hawley became the first Senator to challenge Biden’s election win and continued to do so as the dust was settling on the Capitol Riot, Hawley's former teacher commented:
“Pointless disruption” will be Hawley’s epitaph.
