Jack Smith, a life-long Republican, served as the Special Counsel for the DoJ from 2023 to 2025. Smith and his team brought two criminal cases against the Donald Trump in 2023. In the first, prosecutors alleged that Mr. Trump illegally held onto documents marked classified after the end of his first term in January 2021 and kept them at his South Florida property, Mar-a-Lago. The second case involved Trump's alleged efforts to hold onto power after he lost the 2020 presidential election to former President Joe Biden. Since being re-elected, Trump and his allies in Congress, Jim Jordan, Chuck Grassley, etc, have accused Smith of pursuing politically motivated cases against Trump in an effort to undermine his candidacy for a second term. Smith is the subject of investigations from congressional Republicans, Jack Smith calls Republicans' bluff with request to testify In a letter addressed to Jim Joordan and Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), the chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said they felt “compelled to correct inaccurate assertions made by you and others” after it was made known that the FBI in 2023 analyzed the phone toll records of eight GOP senators and one Republican House member. “A number of people have falsely stated that Mr. Smith ‘tapped’ Senators’ phones, ‘spied’ on their communications, or ‘surveilled’ their conversations. As you know, toll records merely contain telephonic routing information — collected after the calls have taken place — identifying incoming and outgoing call numbers, the time of the calls, and their duration. Toll records are historical in nature, and do not include the content of calls,” the letter reads. “Wiretapping, by contrast, involves intercepting the telecommunications in real time, which the Special Counsel’s Office did not do,” it adds. Smith’s lawyers said the subpoena was limited to just four days, Jan. 4-7, 2021, focused on the time period around the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. “The subpoena’s limited temporal range is consistent with a focused effort to confirm or refute reports by multiple news outlets that during and after the January 6 riots at the Capitol, President Trump and his surrogates attempted to call Senators to urge them to delay certification of the 2020 election results,” they write. Jack Smith is turning the tables by requesting to testify publicly in open hearings before the House and Senate Judiciary Committees.
Appreciation for what? He ultimately didn’t do sh*t Trump literally tried to overturn an election which is a treasonous act, and pathetic Democrats slow walked his prosecution. Joe Biden allowed Merrick Garland to basically do nothing for over 2 years to seem “impartial” or whatever…what a joke we’re giving guys pats on the back for nothing
