01/29/26
Good morning! It’s Thursday, January 29th.
National Puzzle Day
I’ll tell you what’s a puzzle… out of all the timelines in all the world, how on earth did we get forced into this one?
And now, the news.
The 2020 Election
Hey, you what I keep forgetting to tell you about? The time that the president tried to steal the 2020 election.
Totally just slipped my mind, what with all of the murdering that the government keeps doing.
Lots to keep up with!
Anyway yeah, the president totally tried to steal the 2020 election. And I know what you’re thinking, “I know Kim. There was a whole insurrection about it.” No no – this was before.
But also then too. Last Thursday, Jack Smith (who, again, looks like Jack Smith from Ted Lasso – season 4 coming to AppleTV this summer, you’re welcome) testified in front of the House Judiciary Committee for a public hearing. He testified privately last month before asking for a public hearing that democrats urged the Chairman Jim Jordan to accept.
So he did.
Here’s what you need to know going into this – everyone knows that Trump tried to steal the election. I know it. You know it. Trump knows it.
Jim Jordan knows it. And he knows Jack Smith knows it as well.
So why subpoena Smith to begin with? I can’t stress this enough… these people are bad, bad, bad people. And they are also… super dumb.
Anyway, let’s talk about what Jack Smith revealed in this testimony.
Well for starters, he seemed pretty confident on what the evidence revealed: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in criminal activity. If asked whether to prosecute a former president based on the same facts today, I would do so regardless of whether that president was a Republican or a Democrat."
One of the pieces of evidence they focused on were the phone calls made on January 6th. Smith says his office didn’t spy on anyone, so the content of the calls wasn’t included, but they did have the phone records and the call lengths.
We know, however, that at least one of the calls, the one to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, was Trump asking him to find the exact number of votes that Trump would need to win the state. Just casually find them.
Check the couch cushions or something.
We know about this call because Raffensperger’s chief of staff recorded it.
So you gotta agree then with Smith when he says: "Some of the most powerful witnesses were witnesses who, in fact, were fellow Republicans who had voted for Donald Trump, who had campaigned for him and who wanted him to win the election.”
Obviously, the Republicans in the room, who again - called for this themselves!, hated seeing the truth being displayed so truthfully said it was actually Smith, and not Trump who interfered in the “democratic process by seeking to muzzle a candidate for a high office.”
Their evidence?
None.
He was more constrained in his answers in his public answers than in his private testimony because an order from Judge Aileen Cannon has the evidence in this case under lock and key.
… until Feb 24th, when the order expires.
But I want you to understand that Smith sat there and said, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that Donald Trump tried to steal the 2020 election. Not only that, but: “Our investigation revealed that Donald Trump is the person who caused Jan. 6, that it was foreseeable to him and that he sought to exploit the violence.”
And while he spoke, Trump took to Truth Social and threatened to disbar him. Smith’s reaction? “I will not be intimidated. I think these statements are also made as a warning to others what will happen if they stand up.”
I tell you all of this because Jack Smith is not someone who is hyperbolic. He’s a serious man. They investigated this case and he went there, publicly, to say in no uncertain terms – yes, the president did, indeed, try to steal the 2020 election.
And I want to be as clear as possible about that because on Wednesday, the FBI executed a search warrant at the Fulton County elections office, which is near Atlanta, in search of records tied to the 2020 election.
The items they were in search of included: ballots, tabulator tapes from the scanners used to tally the ballots, electronic ballot images, and voter rolls.
This comes on the heels of Trump’s comments last week in Davos, when he said "people will soon be prosecuted for what they did” in the 2020 election.
The 2020 election was not stolen from him.
He lost.
Because he was a bad president in 2016.
Frankly, it boggles the mind as to how he won in 2024 but there are things we can say about that. About campaigns and also how this country is incredibly racist and sexist.
As a candidate, he had the right to have his results looked into.
They were. Multiple times in multiple places.
And every single court that looked into his cases, every one of them, came back saying that there was no foul play and Trump did, indeed, lose that election.
But he could not handle that. And so instead of having a peaceful transfer of power, we had our first full-on insurrection.
And he knew it would be violent. He egged it on. He wanted the violence. He got what he wanted.
People literally died.
And not even that was enough.
"People will soon be prosecuted for what they did.”
Genuinely chilling.
Not the right ones, that’s for sure.
And Mitch McConnell, who we can all slow clap thank for Trump not getting impeached in the Senate and therefore being able to be president right now… that guy sure is quiet right now.
Last week Trump tried to hold Minneapolis hostage for their voter rolls, and yesterday his FBI raided the Fulton County election office.
He can’t win in the courts. He can’t win at the ballot boxes.
He’s going to do everything he can to try and cheat.
He’s too scared to have a real election.
But we are stronger than him. And elections are already happening all over the place. I’m sorry but I am not going to carry the water for this narrative that there aren’t going to be elections. That’s what they want you to think, because they want a low voter turnout.
Because that’s the only way they win.
Hear me again because this is an indisputable fact: their only path to success is low voter turnout on our side.
So we’re going to get real mad about what he did on Wednesday. We’re going to stay mad about what he tried to do in 2020.
And then we’re going to take that anger… and vote our way out of this mess.
And that’s it. That’s the news.
I’ll tell you what’s not a puzzle… I’m proud of you.