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LiberalArkie

(16,653 posts)
Mon Oct 7, 2024, 07:59 AM Oct 7

Cotton calls Trump special counsel filing 'a temper tantrum from a deranged fanatic'

10/06/24 10:43 PM ET

Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton (R) said in a Sunday interview that a recently unsealed filing from special counsel Jack Smith is “a temper tantrum from a deranged fanatic.”

“Well, what I, what I think about what Jack Smith did this week, is that it was a temper tantrum from a deranged fanatic who is angry that he keeps losing time and time again in the Supreme Court over the course of his career,” Cotton said on NBC News’s “Meet the Press” with the outlet’s Kristen Welker.

The filing from Smith in his election interference case against former President Trump, unsealed Wednesday, described the former president’s attempt to foil the transfer of power as a “private criminal effort.” It also revealed an alleged comment by Trump in which he said “So what?” on Jan. 6, 2021, in response to an aide alerting the former president that his vice president had been taken to a secure location.

Steven Cheung, a spokesperson for Trump, previously called Smith’s filing “falsehood-ridden” and “unconstitutional.”

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https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/4918882-tom-cotton-jack-smith-donald-trump/

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Cotton calls Trump special counsel filing 'a temper tantrum from a deranged fanatic' (Original Post) LiberalArkie Oct 7 OP
Go hand in your Amicus brief then, Skippy! no_hypocrisy Oct 7 #1
Why do they have happy feet Oct 7 #2
Why is Cotton never asked about his open letter to Iran? Freethinker65 Oct 7 #3
I can only assume he is referring to Jan 6 and not the filing related to it. Gore1FL Oct 7 #4
Cotton and the GOP want our Federal Government to be based on "temper tantrums from a deranged fanatic". Midnight Writer Oct 7 #5
It must be nice C_U_L8R Oct 7 #6
I didn't vote for him ArkansasDemocrat1 Oct 7 #7

happy feet

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2. Why do they have
Mon Oct 7, 2024, 08:06 AM
Oct 7

Nasty idiots like this on giving the impression that their opinion is worth considering. I suspect he got no pushback-but don’t know since I stopped watching many years ago.

Gore1FL

(21,990 posts)
4. I can only assume he is referring to Jan 6 and not the filing related to it.
Mon Oct 7, 2024, 08:35 AM
Oct 7

Oh wait, it's Tom, "Dear Iran, you cannot trust the United States" Cotton.

Never mind. I thought it was someone with patriotism and a brain.

Midnight Writer

(23,124 posts)
5. Cotton and the GOP want our Federal Government to be based on "temper tantrums from a deranged fanatic".
Mon Oct 7, 2024, 08:38 AM
Oct 7

The official and complete Republican Party Platform is "whatever Trump wants".

And what Trump wants is for the entire country to jump to accommodate his fantasies and capricious whims.

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