Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Arkansas, said in an interview Sunday that Special Counsel Jack Smith's recently released filings were “the tantrum of a deranged fanatic.”
“Well, what I think about what Jack Smith did this week is that it was a tantrum by a fanatical fanatic who is angry that he has kept losing the Supreme Court over and over again throughout his career.'' That's it,” Cotton said on NBC News' “Meet the Press” with Kristen Welker.
Smith's filing in the election interference lawsuit against former President Trump, released Wednesday, describes the former president's attempts to block the transfer of power as a “civilian criminal act.” It also revealed a statement in which President Trump is said to have said, “So what?” On January 6, 2021, in response to an aide who warned the former president that the vice president had been taken to a safe location.
Trump's press secretary, Stephen Chan, previously said Smith's filing was “full of lies” and “unconstitutional.”
“Deranged Jack Smith and the radical Democrats in Washington, D.C. are hell-bent on weaponizing the Justice Department to hang on to power,” Chan said. “President Trump is in the ascendancy and radical Democrats across the Deep State are dismayed. This entire incident is a partisan, unconstitutional witch hunt that should be completely dismissed along with all the rest of the Democratic Party's fabrications. It is.”
Cotton said on “Meet the Press” that the filing is “unverified, uncross-examined hearsay from grand jury testimony, and as such is not normally disclosed publicly. ” he said.
“He showed up in court,” Cotton said of Smith. “He filed a brief four times as long as a normal brief and asked for special permission to release it no later than 30 days before the election. This was probably due to professional misconduct by Jack Smith. Yes, and it should be investigated.”
Hill contacted the Department of Justice.
