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Special Prosecutor Jack Smith has sent subpoenas to former aides to Donald Trump to discuss the firing of election security official Christopher Krebs in the waning days of the Trump administration. Krebs had claimed publicly that the 2020 election was the most secure in history, which ran against Trump's message of widespread fraud, so Krebs was relieved of his position. The fact that Smith is looking into this firing suggests either conspiracy or retaliation charges, or perhaps even both. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains what's happening.
*This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos. It was revealed this week that special prosecutor Jack Smith, has sent subpoenas to a handful of former aids for Donald Trump while he was, of course, in the last few months of his presidential administration involving the firing of his own cybersecurity election expert, manned by the name of Christopher Krebs. So here's what happened. We had the November, 2020 election, nine days after that election happened, as Donald Trump and his team were starting to cry, fraud Krebs again, cybersecurity election expert, hired by Trump himself for the administration. Krebs came out and said, this was the most secure election we have ever had in the United States, directly contradicting what Donald Trump and his team were crafting in terms of talking points. That was nine days after the election. Four days after that, Donald Trump gets on Twitter, oh, I'm sorry. Five days later, Donald Trump gets on Twitter, announces that Mr. Krebs was terminated after releasing a highly inaccurate statement about the 2020 election. And now, special prosecutor Jack Smith says, you know what? I wanna talk to the people involved in this firing. I wanna get some answers. Because here we had one member of Donald Trump's own administration that came out and said, we have already looked at it. We were monitoring it the whole time. None of the claims being made are true. This was a very safe and secure election. There was no foreign interference, no bad guys out there doing horrible things. Everything was cool. And then Trump fired him. Now, we also know that it wasn't just Donald Trump sat and stew on it for five days and then decided to fire him. No. What also happened was that after Mr. Krebs made this statement, in the five days between the statement and the firing, Donald Trump had his aids go out there and make lists of all of the horrible things that Mr. Krebs had done in order to justify the firing. And one of the things on those lists was that, well, he had a Facebook photo, or his wife had a Facebook photo with the Biden Harris logo on it. So obviously, this guy's a Biden supporter. His whole family's Biden supporters. They're a bunch of Trump haters. The guy's gotta go because he's not a loyalist. At the same time, by the way, the uh, uh, aids, were also looking at other members of the Trump administration trying to determine who was loyal and who was not. Uh, we know this was also happening at the Department of Justice with Rosenstein or Rosen, excuse me. So there were lots of horrible things happening with the firings, with the investigations from Trump into his own people. They wanted loyalists who would go along blindly with whatever their horrible Plans were. So the subpoenas from Jack Smith, right? That's what everybody wants to hear about. What does that mean? Well, I'm not a hundred percent on this because I'm not a part of that, uh uh, investigation, obviously, but to me, it sounds like Jack Smith is crafting a case to prove conspiracy to defraud the United States. Now, that's the big one. That's the one that if you can get Donald Trump on that you've got him on everything else. Conspiracy to defraud the United States, not just defrauding the United States, but a conspiracy to do so. And the conspiracy to do so would be having those aids that of course have now been hit with subpoenas.
