What’s different about the charges Gabbard is making, Smith said, is that they involve a sitting American president abusing the powers of his office to enlist ostensibly nonpartisan intelligence agencies — agencies bankrolled by all American taxpayers — in a political smear to kneecap the man who was succeeding him in the Oval Office.
“You know the opposition is always looking to derail an administration,” Smith said. “If you’re a Republican in the White House, Democrats are going to try to derail you. If you’re a liberal in the White House, the conservatives are going to try to derail you.”
He acknowledged, “That always, always, always happens.”
“But the weaponization of intelligence agencies to pull that off brings on an entirely different problem,” Smith continued.
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