Washington
Post - Former special counsel Jack Smith returned to Capitol Hill on
Tuesday to defend his derailed efforts to prosecute President Donald Trump,
telling lawmakers he would not “be silenced by continued threats of
prosecution” from the president.
Testifying before the Senate
Judiciary Committee, Smith rejected Republican assertions that his
investigations of the then-former president were driven by partisanship or were
used to improperly surveil GOP lawmakers during the Biden administration.
Smith said he stood by his
decision to charge Trump in two felony indictments during his years out of
office, the first focused on his alleged mishandling of classified documents
and the second on his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
“If asked whether to prosecute a
former president today based on the same facts, I would do so regardless of
whether the president was a Republican or a Democrat,” Smith said.
With that assertion, the former
special counsel kicked off his latest high-stakes clash with Republican
lawmakers amid a fight to control the public’s understanding of Smith’s twin
investigations, both of which he was compelled to abandon after Trump won the
2024 election.
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