House Republicans seek testimony from ex-Trump prosecutor Jack Smith

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Source: yahoo.com


STEPHEN GROVES Tue, October 14, 2025 at 2:33 PM CDT


WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee requested Tuesday that Jack Smith, the former Justice Department special counsel, appear for an interview, part of an escalating effort among the GOP to pursue the perceived enemies of President Donald Trump.

Rep. Jim Jordan, the committee chair, charged in a letter to Smith that his prosecutions of Trump were “partisan and politically motivated.” Smith has come under particular scrutiny on Capitol Hill, especially after the Senate Judiciary Committee said last week that his investigation had included an FBI analysis of phone records for more than half a dozen Republican lawmakers from the week of Jan. 6, 2021

Smith brought two cases against Trump, one accusing him of conspiring to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election and the other of hoarding classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida. Both were brought in 2023, well over a year before the 2024 presidential election, and indictments in the two cases cited what Smith and his team described as clear violations of well-established federal law. Former Attorney General Merrick Garland, who named Smith as special counsel in November 2022, has repeatedly said politics played no part in the handling of the cases.


Smith abandoned the criminal cases against Trump after he won the presidential election last year. Trump’s return to the White House precluded the federal prosecutions, as well as paved the way for Republicans to go after Trump’s political and legal opponents.

Jordan wrote to Smith: “Your testimony is necessary to understand the full extent to which the Biden-Harris Justice Department weaponized federal law enforcement.”.................................


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We knew this was coming. damn!!

Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee requested Tuesday that Jack Smith, the former Justice Department special counsel, appear for an interview, part of an escalating effort among the GOP to pursue the perceived enemies of President Trump.
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[blm]

1. He should say he'll only answer their queries in PUBLlC

[SunSeeker]

2. EXACTLY.

Fuck these cowards.

[RussBLib]

3. Hopefully Jack can go on the lecture circuit (and Leticia James)

...or campaign against Trump. You don't have to be a liberal to know that Trump is toxic to our system. Some Republicans see the light, others just shoot it out.

[ancianita]

4. Jordan has access to Smith's final report to AG Merrick Garland. Jordan's fluffing himself with a show 'trial hearing'

that wants a pre-determined outcome, not to good faith investigate anything he claims are important. Why? Because Jordan, with his JD, has never passed the bar, never investigated or tried cases in a court, so he badly needs to buff up ideological cred.


Jordan will cherry pick some lines out of context in Smith's report. He'll be seen for the venal, trifling, and stupid trumpsucking hack that he is.

No worries. This isn't as serious as it's made out to be. Don't believe the corporate hype.

Watch the last ten minutes of this and you'll see why Jordan's word weaponizing is contemptible on its face. https://www.democraticunderground.com/132292354

[OldBaldy1701E]

6. Was Jack Smith in charge of the department that oversaw the investigations?

Because if he was not, this is even more of a joke.

One might as well go after the mailroom attendant at Goldman Sachs because the company made an illegal trade.

Smith was doing his job. Just as whomever ordered him to do this thing was doing their job.

The only 'political' motivation was to stop a lunatic from being even more dangerous, and that failed anyway...

So, yeah... This should backfire rather spectacularly. We will need to make sure to do our part and always bring it up whenever anyone happens to be around a rethug.

[Beartracks]

5. Republican accusations of Biden "weaponizing the Justice Department" were merely a broadcast...

... projection of the Republicans' own desires and, ultimately, their own intentions after Trump was back in the White House.

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[mackdaddy]

7. Jack Smith just did a long form interview with Andrew Weiss. Meidas did a summary vid.

The Republicans might not want to hear what he actually says.

[Prairie Gates]

8. Don't they have to be in session first?