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LiberalArkie

(16,718 posts)
Mon Oct 7, 2024, 07:59 AM Oct 2024

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 2024 OP
Go hand in your Amicus brief then, Skippy! no_hypocrisy Oct 2024 #1
Why do they have happy feet Oct 2024 #2
Why is Cotton never asked about his open letter to Iran? Freethinker65 Oct 2024 #3
I can only assume he is referring to Jan 6 and not the filing related to it. Gore1FL Oct 2024 #4
Cotton and the GOP want our Federal Government to be based on "temper tantrums from a deranged fanatic". Midnight Writer Oct 2024 #5
It must be nice C_U_L8R Oct 2024 #6
I didn't vote for him ArkansasDemocrat1 Oct 2024 #7

happy feet

(1,122 posts)
2. Why do they have
Mon Oct 7, 2024, 08:06 AM
Oct 2024

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

(22,017 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 2024

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

(23,190 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 2024

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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