Jack Smith Defends Trump Probes in House Testimony
The Spin
Republican narrative
Smith's prosecutions were politically motivated lawfare riddled with false claims and procedural abuses. Smith rushed to the Supreme Court to beat the election calendar, mischaracterized an unarmed protest as an attack, relied on obstruction statutes the Supreme Court later rejected, and spied on Republican lawmakers while hiding their identities from judges. His admission that star witness Cassidy Hutchinson provided inadmissible secondhand hearsay exposes the entire case as a partisan witch hunt.
Democratic narrative
Smith conducted a fair, impartial investigation, following the facts and the law without political interference. The career prosecutor built his case around credible Republican witnesses who put country over party, obtained lawmaker phone records through proper DOJ channels with Speech or Debate protections, and never communicated with Biden or the White House. Smith's robust defense of his work demonstrates he would have secured a conviction had Trump not won reelection.
