Claims extracted
14
sentences that state something as happening or true
Uncertain
14%
2 of 14 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
Leaning
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Publisher signals
66/100
New York Post's corrections and
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The Senate Judiciary Committee last week dropped evidence that Biden-ers special counsel Jack Smith savagely abused prosecutorial powers for purely political purposes — an outrage Democrats as of now seem sure to repeat when next they run the Executive Branch.
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they → drop → Branch
The Biden Justice Department in 2022 tasked Smith with creating a federal case against then-ex-President Donald Trump to hobble (or better still prevent) his third White House run.
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Department → task → run
Now we know that Smith, in his Capt. Ahab pursuit of Trump, went after complete innocents — spying on thousands of average Americans, obtaining their home addresses, bank account and routing numbers, and signatures.
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Smith → know → addresses
Smith also obtained emails of dozens of reporters at major media outlets — targets who fell across the partisan spectrum, by the way, in case left-leaning journos thought their political allegiances might spare them.
What was their crime?
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crime → obtain → them
All this comes atop Smith’s already-revealed spying on text messages between Trump officials and 44 lawmakers from October 2020 to Jan. 20, 2021.
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this → come → Jan.
Again: The victimized legislators come from both parties.
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legislators → victimize → parties
And the seizure of their texts seems a clear violation of Article I’s “Speech and Debate” clause, which protects members of Congress from civil and criminal prosecution over their official activity.
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which → seem → activity
Plus, Smith spied on the whereabouts of 10 Republican lawmakers in the days before and after Jan. 6 using phone geolocation —surveillance ruled clearly unconstitutional in a landmark 2018 Supreme Court decision, Carpenter v. United States.
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Smith → spy → States
Democrats love to bemoan the “chilling effect” of Trump’s perfectly legal actions on everything from budget cuts to immigration enforcement: Where are they on Biden’s favorite special prosecutor illegally going after small-dollar political donors and reporters?
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prosecutor → love → donors
Then again, the national party seems to be built around contempt for the civil rights of its political enemies: Look at Biden administration efforts to set up a “Disinformation Governance Board” or Attorney General Merrick Garland siccing the FBI on school-board protestors.
To say nothing of Democrats’ open talk now of packing the Supreme Court.
Judiciary Chairman Charles Grassley’s done the republic a service by bringing Smith’s outrages to light.
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Grassley → seem → light
Too bad Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.) gave the deniers an out with his an embarrassing marquee moment, confusing a text message to level a baseless perjury claim.
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Schmitt → give → claim
That unforced error obscured Sen. Josh Hawley’s far more credible perjury charge: Smith was lying when he said in previous House testimony that he couldn’t remember seeking a search warrant for text messages of members of Congress.
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he → obscure → Congress
Democrats will come back into power someday; if this habit of running roughshod over the rights of anyone who stands in their way politically remains unchecked, it will cause a constitutional crisis of the kind Smith et al have spent the past decade charging Trump with causing.
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al → come → Trump
That’s why Smith and his former masters must be held accountable for the sake of their party’s future — and America’s.
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Smith → ’ → future
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