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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