From Fox News: Former special counsel Jack Smith is set to appear Thursday on Capitol Hill for a televised hearing, during which he will face questions from House Judiciary Committee Republicans and Democrats about his two prosecutions of President Donald Trump.
Republicans, led by Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, are expected to level allegations at Smith that he brought politicized criminal charges against a leading presidential candidate to interfere with the 2024 election.
Smith’s appearance will mark the second time in as many months that he has answered questions before the Republican-led committee after he sat for an eight-hour deposition behind closed doors in December.
Smith has long wanted to speak publicly about his work, and Trump, who has said Smith is a “thug” who belongs in jail, said in the Oval Office last year that he wanted the same.
The hearing, which will be broadcast live to the public, is set to start at 10:00 a.m. ET.
Live coverage will be available in one of the videos below:
The House Judiciary Republicans released the following summary on Smith:
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Smith continued—and continues—to depart from precedent set by other special counsels by asserting a person’s guilt without a jury verdict. Smith violates the fundamental tenet of the American legal system of innocent until proven guilty.
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Smith imputed guilt to President Trump partially because of who advised the President at the relevant times —implying that only “experts,” in Smith’s view, should be briefing the President. Smith seems to believe that he is an arbiter of who may counsel a president.
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Smith stated that he was deeply involved in the details of his office’s investigations. But, when probed, Smith said he could not recall basic investigative steps that his team took.
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Smith conceded that he approved of several actions and procedural moves that were highly irregular.
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Smith approved toll record subpoenas for Members of Congress without regard for whether the private communications were constitutionally protected. When asked who bears the burden of this abuse, Smith blamed President Trump for the prosecution’s unconstitutional conduct.
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Smith sought Speaker McCarthy’s private toll records to corroborate evidence his office already possessed. In other words, he had no need for the records, but sought them because he could—a flagrant abuse of the prosecutor’s duty to do justice.
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Smith confirmed that his prosecutors did not tell judges signing gag orders for the subpoenas that the Special Counsel’s Office was seeking records from Members of Congress.
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Smith chose to target President Trump, and only President Trump, in his electors case—setting aside other targets so that he could secure an indictment of President Trump in advance of the election.
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Although Smith wanted to prevent President Trump from commenting on the case, Smith could not articulate a specific harm concretely traceable to anything President Trump said about the case.
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Smith testified that partisan January 6th Select Committee star witness Cassidy Hutchinson’s testimony was unreliable and contradicted by other witnesses with better knowledge.
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Smith declined to initiate an independent investigation into serious allegations that his top aide Jay Bratt threatened a defense counsel to entice his cooperation with the prosecution—instead asking two other deputies to do an internal review of their peer.
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Smith testified that, at his direction, his team asked for and received the partisan January 6th Select Committee’s evidence gathered during its politically motivated inquiry.
Jack Smith will testify before the House Judiciary Committee today, Thursday, January 22, at 10:00 a.m. ET.
— House Judiciary GOP 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 (@JudiciaryGOP) January 22, 2026
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