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The Left's Control
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| in 33 days and he's got to get President Trump. | |
| He's got to stop President Trump from running, tie him up in court. | |
| He's got to get to trial or at a minimum insert an 165 page political document into the presidential campaign. | |
| It was always about politics. | |
| The good news is the American people saw through it. | |
| They saw through it. | |
| For so long, The left has controlled so much in this country. | |
| The left controlled big media, the left controlled big tech, the left controlled academia, Hollywood, certainly the Democrat Party, and I think all too much the federal bureaucracy. | |
| But the left doesn't control we the people. | |
| And in spite of the left and the weaponization efforts of Jim Comey, Alvin Bragg, Bonnie Willis, and Jack Smith, we the people saw through it all. | |
| And we elected President Trump twice. | |
| Before turning to the ranking member for his opening statement, I would just ask unanimous consent to enter into the record the Washington Post editorial, Jack Smith Would Have Blown a Hole in the First Amendment. | |
| With that, I yield to the gentleman from Maryland. | |
| Well, thank you kindly, Mr. Chairman. | |
| I want to start by recognizing the presence of four American heroes here today, four of the hundreds of officers who defended us on January 6, 2021, Michael Fanon, Aquilina Gunnell, Daniel Hodges, and Harry Dunn. | |
| And I thank them for being here today. | |
| Mr. Smith, thank you for appearing before the American people. | |
| I'm glad that the committee has finally granted you the same chance to report your findings to the American people that every other special counsel investigating an American president has had. | |
| The good chairman started by saying it's all about the politics. | |
| Well, maybe for them, but for us, it's all about the rule of law. | |