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Donald Trump and Republicans were fuming earlier this week as special council Jack Smith dropped his 165-page filing, which indicated that the 45th President is on the hook for his actions on January 6th, 2021. Smith’s critics, however, contend the document drop was nothing more than an October surprise designed to smear Trump with the election only a month away. Former Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino is among those who feel that way. Speaking on 710 WOR’s Len Berman and Michael Riedel in the Morning program, Astorino- who can also be heard on The Rob Astorino Show on WOR Saturday at 4pm- feels this is just the latest example of how a weaponized Department of Justice functions.
“If anyone is even pretending this is not lawfare, just stop it,” Astorino told Berman and Riedel, “because no judge, no prosecutor, in their right mind would have that unsealed thirty days before the election. There’s no legal requirement, there was no reason whatsoever. It was all about show, it was all about trying to hurt Donald Trump- just like, by the way, the National Archives under the Biden Administration just revealed yesterday they will not release any information about Hunter Biden until November 6th, the day after the election. So, let’s just stop all the pretending.”
Astorino says the GOP should be more worried by the effects of a September surprise- the sudden displacement of thousands of voters in swing states due to the remnants of Hurricane Helene. “So, Georgia, there’s 159 counties. 40 of them were affected and are natural disasters now because of the hurricane. Almost all of them are Trump counties, where he won big. So, if you’re completely displaced, like in North Carolina too, and you have no place to go and there’s no voting, or you had absentee ballots, and now you’re living in Texas with family, this could really affect the whole Presidential election. I am concerned about that, because it didn’t affect Atlanta. It didn’t affect Charlotte.”