'Jack Smith is holding a full house': House January 6th Committee investigator



Timothy Heaphy, a partner at Willkie Farr & Gallagher who served as the lead investigator for the United States House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol, told MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace on Thursday's edition of Deadline White House that Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith's case against former President Donald Trump in the plot to overturn the 2020 election is akin to a winning card hand.

"Tim, we've had so many chances to talk to you lately, but the very first time I talked to you, and I mentioned this last week, I asked you if Jack Smith is able to pierce through some of the few places where the Committee wasn't able to go, would they find more evidence consistent with what you'd found," Wallace recalled.

"And it was your belief that they would, that behind the closed door of the [John] Eastmans and the [ex-White House Chief of Staff Mark] Meadows was not exculpatory evidence, it appears that the Justice Department has reached that very conclusion. Trump has received a target letter today. Jack Smith's office told Trump's lawyers they should expect an indictment. Your reaction to that news?" Wallace asked.

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The latest developments were "not surprising," Heaphy replied. "Reinforces everything that we found over the sixteen months of our investigation."

According to Heaphy, Smith has amassed a trove of additional proof that Trump orchestrated a criminal conspiracy to demolish American democracy and remain in power.

"We've been marching inexorably toward this moment. I'm not surprised that the special counsel has evidently reached this conclusion or seems poised to, my guess is that Jack Smith is holding a full house, whereas we had, you know, two pair," said Heaphy. "I'm not a poker player, but, it's only gotten stronger is my point as he's been able to push through some of the privilege assertions and get access to people and information that we didn't have. We were already there at the end of our work on January 3rd when we issued the report, and we seem to be further along the road toward both understanding and accountability now."

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