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Donald Trump would be in jail if the Supreme Court had not made up its doctrine of presidential immunity and given him a pass on his corruption and treason (yes, treason since it means trying to overthrow the government).

All you have to do is read the transcript from the Jack Smith interview with the Republican run House Judiciary Committee that is now on line to understand why I say that.

His brilliance and high level of competence come through page after page, so much so that you see why the Republicans failed miserably in trying to undermine the truth of his case against Trump, and why he was so confident that he had irrefutable evidence that would have led to Trump’s conviction for instigating the January 6 insurrection.

Only the Supreme Court conservative majority betraying their own oaths of office saved him.

Jack Smith’s testimony also indirectly confirms the betrayal of their country by every voter who helped Trump win in 2024. What he said to the Committee we all knew because we witnessed it. His voters knew the charges. They knew what he did was wrong. They knew he was corrupt. They knew from more than 60 court cases that his claim that the 2020 election was stolen from him was an absolute and unequivocal lie.

Yet they still voted for him and gave us a rogue President who is causing chaos and havoc because he does not believe any law of any kind applies to him, all because he believes the Supreme Court’s decision protects him from any consequences of his actions.

The tragedy is that he is right, and that is on them, something a Democratically led Congress will have to deal with eventually. For now, the court has pushed the nation into a crisis unlike any we have ever faced.

It’s now up to us to hold Trump accountable, and, as I keep saying, the first step is to elect a Congress that will join the lower courts in stopping him from doing what he is doing. The courts are ruling his actions unconstitutional.

The Congress can do its duty as the courts are by reducing Trump’s funding, starting with cutting the ICE budget in 2027 down to a fraction of what Republicans gave him this year.

This is the year we take the steps we can take to end Trump’s presidency practically, and perhaps even permanently. We must show Trump that no matter what he says or does, we know who he is and are sick of what he is saying and doing.

He’ll never believe he is as despised as he is because he believes he’s the greatest president in history That’s how delusional he is, how deeply troubled he is mentally, emotionally, and psychologically.

He even believes he can re-write history, especially about his treason on January 6, 2021. That’s why he pardoned those who were his civilian storm troopers that day. He wants us to see them as heroes and patriots rather than his treasonous co-conspirators as Jack Smith was going to prove in court.

In spite of what he wants, we will never forget the truth of what actually happened. Never. None of it. Not one thing.

In fact, I believe that as time passes remembering what happened on this day will grow in significance, and when Trump is gone, and may it be soon, the day will become a national holiday commemorating the moment our democracy was saved from the nation’s only traitorous President, Donald J. Trump.

He, of course, wants to be remembered in history for the president he imagines himself to be. Instead, he will be remembered in infamy.