This is going to be embarrassing. The Republicans, anyway.

Jack Smith is cool as a cucumber. Quite frankly, can’t believe Jim Jordan is letting him do this, but Jim Jordan has always been confident of Jim Jordan’s ability to dazzle the American public by screaming incoherent, barely literate high school wrestling coach words at witnesses.

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This is going to be embarrassing. The Republicans, anyway.

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