Jack Smith can prove 'Trump participated in an insurrection': Former Bush official

Donald Ayer, a former deputy attorney general under President George H.W. Bush, appeared on CNN Friday to make the case that special counsel Jack Smith has the evidence he needs to show former President Donald Trump participated in an insurrection against the United States government.

Ayer started off by arguing that the DOJ would be very careful in bringing charges of supporting an insurrection against Trump, but he argued that prosecutors had what they needed to make such a charge stick.

"It fits like a glove, what Trump did," he said. "You can tell this story in terms of Trump summoning these people to Washington, and his conduct during the day... the tweet that he sent out [saying] Pence isn't doing his job, and then sitting there for 187 minutes and doing nothing, and really lending support. He participated in an insurrection and supported it."

Ayer also said that it was necessary from a practical perspective for Smith to prove that Trump knew he legitimately lost the 2020 election -- but he thinks that Smith has "overwhelming" evidence to support such a charge.

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"He said it to a bunch of people," he said. "He may have said it to his family members. And so he knew he had lost, and he went ahead and did these things."

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