“These people are heroes, and I believe our country does not recognize and pay enough attention to people like that. I think if we did, the partisan things that we’re discussing today—a lot of that would go away.”

Quote:Special counsel Jack Smith, who brought two indictments against now-President Donald Trump in 2023, testified in front of Congress again on Tuesday—this time, to the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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Here are the major takeaways from Tuesday’s hearing.


An embarrassing episode epitomizes the GOP’s failures to pin down Smith

Republicans have struggled mightily to substantiate Trump’s desire for Smith to be charged criminally. But rarely has it seemed to backfire like it did Tuesday.

Sen. Eric Schmitt of Missouri crafted an apparent conspiracy theory about Smith being tied to the prosecution of Trump in Fulton County, Georgia. To substantiate his theory, Schmitt cited text messages he suggested showed Smith had been at an Atlanta Hawks game on February 3, 2024—the day after Fulton County prosecutor Fani Willis and special prosecutor Nathan Wade admitted to an affair.

Smith appeared dumbfounded, though. He denied going to a Hawks game and said he had no recollection of even being in Atlanta.

“What would you say if I had a series of text messages from your team that said you were in Atlanta at a Warriors-Hawks game on February 3, 2024—the day after Willis and Wade announced their affair?” Schmitt said.

Schmitt went big on the allegation, telling Smith, “I don’t think you know that we have this stuff.” He urged Smith not to “perjure yourself.” He later called Smith a “dirtbag.” He later told the “Charlie Kirk Show” that he was just asking questions and seeing whether Smith would ensnare himself.

Eventually, Democrats got Schmitt to allow Smith to actually review the evidence—a poster featuring the texts in question. In one of them, a fellow prosecutor asks about a seat being reserved for Smith. The poster showed the Atlanta Hawks’ arena.
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Smith... said he was not at a game featuring the Atlanta Hawks, but rather the University of Iowa Hawkeyes women’s basketball team—which then featured Caitlin Clark—at the University of Maryland in the Washington, DC, area.

Smith’s recollection matches up with a game played that day. (Footage from the Iowa–Maryland game shows Smith and his wife in the stands.)

Behind the scenes, a source familiar with how Schmitt got it wrong told CNN the Republican senator checked what men’s college and NBA games were scheduled that day and keyed in on the Atlanta Hawks game—but he failed to consider that Smith may have been at a women’s basketball game.

Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, after clearing up the matter, said Schmitt should apologize. Instead, he laughed it off, telling CNN later Tuesday: “Who knew Jack Smith was a Caitlin Clark fan?”
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The scene epitomized how speculative and thinly constructed the GOP’s allegations about Smith, Trump’s foes, and about the justice system being weaponized against Trump have been. Likewise, the GOP’s other major perjury allegation against Smith rests on a complete misreading of the evidence. But rarely has this apparent fishing expedition been laid so bare.
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Smith was more animated than at an earlier hearing

Smith is a very careful witness.... But he’s also made clear that he wants to fight back against the Trump administration’s weaponization of the justice system against people like him. And on Tuesday, he was a little more animated and open.

(Smith) punctuated his opening statement by saying, “Fear may be contagious; courage is as well.” He also called it an “outrage” that people he worked with were “targeted illegally, lost their jobs illegally, and had their lives turned upside down by this Department of Justice.”

When asked about the Supreme Court’s 2024 ruling conferring presidents with a large degree of immunity, Smith said it “can be very dangerous for the rule of law” for powerful people to benefit from such exceptions.
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When GOP Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas asked him whether he had any regrets, Smith said he regretted that “the people I worked with have been unfairly fired and vilified.”

When Republican Sen. Darline Graham of South Carolina claimed Smith unfairly targeted the phone records of her late brother, Sen. Lindsey Graham, Smith told her that Lindsey Graham had investigated Trump’s underlying voter-fraud claims and found them to be false.

And he said he won’t be going away quietly.

“I will not be silenced by the continued threats of prosecution from the president or others,” Smith said.


Smith discloses that Lindsey Graham was ‘likely’ a witness

That exchange with Darline Graham was also significant when it comes to learning something new about the attempted prosecutions of Trump.

The reason: Smith said Lindsey Graham was likely to be a witness in the case.

“I believe your brother was a patriotic public servant,” Smith said. “He was not a target of our investigation. In fact, he likely would have been a witness in our case. Your brother investigated the claims that Donald Trump was making. He found them to be false.”

Lindsey Graham publicly broke with Trump on the Senate floor after January 6 (i.e. “count me out”) and appeared to be initially helpful to investigators probing the situation.

He later reconciled with Trump and assailed Smith’s investigation.... Smith’s comments suggest Graham could have played at least some role in proving the charges against Trump.


Smith repeatedly defended his staff who were later fired

The former special counsel seemed to make a point to repeatedly vouch for members of his former staff who were fired by Trump’s Justice Department and, in some cases, were repeatedly invoked by name at Tuesday’s hearing. Smith even called them “heroes.”

“My view: These people are heroes, and I believe our country does not recognize and pay enough attention to people like that,” he said. “I think if we did, the partisan things that we’re discussing today—a lot of that would go away.”

Smith also warned about what ousting people like that would portend for the country.

“If you drive those people out of public service, the institutions we rely on for justice, for protecting our country—those institutions are weakened,” Smith said.

When Democratic Sen. Adam Schiff of California talked about how Smith had been attacked, Smith said it was “much more important that the public servants who I work with—that we stop vilifying public servants.”


The GOP’s effort to target Smith appears to be losing steam

It’s been nearly a year since Trump appeared alongside then-Attorney General Pam Bondi and claimed Smith had committed crimes.... There’s been little since then to suggest the Trump administration is able to provide him what he wants. And Tuesday’s hearing often felt like going through the motions more so than anything else.

Apart from Schmitt’s attempt at a gotcha, other Republican lawmakers generally mined territory already covered in the January House Judiciary Committee hearing.

Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri and others repeated an allegation from months ago that Smith perjured himself with his denials about seeking the contents of lawmakers’ communications. But Smith pointed to the holes in that previously debunked theory.

Sen. John Kennedy of Louisiana at one point tried to suggest that Smith might have lobbied to become special counsel—the implication being that he had a political agenda and was targeting Trump—but when Smith denied it, Kennedy moved on.


Smith said he kept subpoenas secret out of fear that Trump would obstruct

Smith also told lawmakers that he sought to keep secret the phone and other records he was seeking because of concerns that Trump and his allies would try to obstruct justice.

When lawmakers suggested that Smith was implying with the nondisclosure requests that they couldn’t be trusted not to destroy evidence, Smith said it was actually Trump he was worried about.

“Our nondisclosure orders were not predicated on the idea that members of Congress or members of this committee would commit acts of obstruction,” Smith said. “It was based on a real concern that Donald Trump and his associates would do that because they had done it, and they did it again.”

Smith cited the fact that the charges against Trump included obstruction of justice and also how Trump had at one point suggested the death penalty for a known witness, former Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Mark Milley.

“We had an absolute basis to seek protection of our investigation from that sort of obstruction,” Smith added.

https://edition.cnn.com/2026/09/29/polit...-takeaways

Quote:Sen. Cory Booker, a New Jersey Democrat, recalled the January 6 attack on the Capitol during a fusillade against the decision to have Jack Smith testify in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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“This committee has not done what we should be doing, which is investigating the crimes, and yet we’re putting on trial the investigators,” Booker said.
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https://edition.cnn.com/2026/09/29/polit...ies-senate

So instead of watching the actual hearing, you rely on this take for your opinion? I’m assuming that because if you had actually watched even you would be embarrassed to post and link this account of how it went.

(10-01-2026 09:23 AM)banker Wrote:  So instead of watching the actual hearing, you rely on this take for your opinion? I’m assuming that because if you had actually watched even you would be embarrassed to post and link this account of how it went.

No, he wouldn't. He'd still lie about it. Also, this thread is a duplicate. We already have one about the hearing.

(10-01-2026 09:23 AM)banker Wrote:  So instead of watching the actual hearing, you rely on this take for your opinion? I’m assuming that because if you had actually watched even you would be embarrassed to post and link this account of how it went.

He just relays what he's been told to think. Doubt he ever even reads what he posts. Almost like a bot.

Full text
https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/med...1ee309.pdf

Jack Smith is the former US special prosecutor in charge of investigating the January 6 attack on the Capitol by Trump supporters in 2021 and the subsequent mishandling of classified government documents by Mr. Trump as a private citizen.

“Rather than accept his defeat in the 2020 presidential election, President Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results and prevent the lawful transfer of power. The evidence showed that President Trump attempted to induce state officials to ignore true vote counts; to manufacture fraudulent slates of presidential electors in seven states that he had lost; to force his own Vice President to act in contravention of his oath and to instead advance President Trump’s personal interests; and, on January 6, 2021, to direct an angry mob to the United States Capitol to obstruct the congressional certification of the presidential election and then exploit the rioters’ violence to further delay it.

“Over 140 heroic law enforcement officers were assaulted that day, a fact we should never forget.”

Rather than accept his defeat in court, Jack Smith continues to lie about his illegal activities.

(and the verdict of tens of millions of Americans that he and the MSM were FOS).

The January 6 riot might be all in a day’s work to this administration, but you’d better not wear the wrong T-shirt.



A humble item of clothing has sent Donald Trump’s director of communications into full-on meltdown mode at the White House. Steven Cheung tore into Jack Smith in an X post after the former special counsel, who previously investigated criminal allegations against the president, was photographed at an anti-Trump concert wearing a “No Kings” protest T-shirt.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-goon...s-t-shirt/

The events of January 6th, 2021 were part of a false flag operation conducted by the CIA and the FBI with the assistance of members of Antifa and Black Lives Matter disguised as Trump supporters to stir up the crowd that was there to protest the election results into starting a riot.

Just one example
https://youtube.com/shorts/dmvq0DnW_ZY?s...P7iy3Qniph

(10-06-2026 11:37 AM)Gitanole Wrote:  The January 6 riot might be all in a day’s work to this administration, but you’d better not wear the wrong T-shirt.



A humble item of clothing has sent Donald Trump’s director of communications into full-on meltdown mode at the White House. Steven Cheung tore into Jack Smith in an X post after the former special counsel, who previously investigated criminal allegations against the president, was photographed at an anti-Trump concert wearing a “No Kings” protest T-shirt.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-goon...s-t-shirt/

So you’re admitting he’s a partisan hack.

Not too bright on your part.

(10-07-2026 08:10 AM)BirdHawkEagle Wrote:  The events of January 6th, 2021 were part of a false flag operation conducted by the CIA and the FBI with the assistance of members of Antifa and Black Lives Matter disguised as Trump supporters to stir up the crowd that was there to protest the election results into starting a riot.

There were dozens of videos on Twitter posted by those involved in the false flag and those reporting it as well. Most have been scrubbed from the internet by the Biden Administration.

The Democrats can’t admit to being part of the worst day in American history. That’s what they’ve called it. Worse than 9/11 ( Democrats believe we deserved it) and Pearl Harbor (Democrats likely believe we deserved it)

The Democrats are hiding the evidence like they’re lives depend on it because they do.

OP Subject: Jack Smith defends...[FULL STOP]

https://thefederalist.com/2026/10/07/if-...cans-will/
The media and the people excusing this totalitarian behavior are pathetic and disgusting.


"...Smith’s partisan team carried out a fishing expedition on behalf of the Biden administration and Democrat Party that went beyond obtaining the text messages of more than 40 members of Congress despite the weaponizers knowing it likely violated the Constitution’s speech and debate clause. It also encompassed the issuance of some 197 subpoenas for records relating to 430 Republican individuals and organizations, or the collection of nearly 5,000 checks from mainly small-dollar Trump donors. But on top of all that, Grassley divulged that Smith’s sleuths secured messages from 87 Trump I White House phones and hoovered up the communications of nearly 50 media members at well over a dozen outlets, including those of The Federalist’s own Mollie Hemingway.

It is as unsurprising as it is depressing that legacy media outlets have been silent on Smith’s overreach, even though employees of those outlets had their messages pilfered by zealous FBI and DOJ officials, operating as hitmen for one political party in its effort to eliminate the other political party. The same is true of the fact that the journalists silent today over this brazen operation were yesterday screaming bloody murder that the Trump administration revoked the privileged White House access of their leftist apparatchik colleagues.

They’re silent because the Democrat mouthpieces who dominate the media and cry crocodile tears for “freedom of the press” believe that efforts to destroy Republicans are righteous and just, and the ends justify the means — freedom be damned.

A bigger problem than the hypocritical and hyper-partisan nature of the Fourth Estate is the reality that the Biden administration’s Soviet-style assault on political dissenters has done catastrophic damage. It is not clear where the victims can or will go for recompense, nor that the aggressors will face justice for their depredations — guaranteeing worse abuses are to come....


Apparently, because of The Federalist’s effectiveness, along with its presentation of information and opinion that authorities find inconvenient and imperiling, the Biden administration-led censorship-industrial complex targeted us. Now, it just so happens, the Biden FBI and DOJ snooped on our editor-in-chief too.

What are the takeaways from this experience?

If you oppose the priorities of the political class and expose the ways it has weaponized its authorities against its public critics and political foes, the most powerful national security apparatus will come down on your head...."

Another failed lib thread full of total delusion

I don't care who you are, what your political beliefs might be, etc. If you purposely assault our nation's capitol, you should be arrested and charged.

Hypothetically, if I had been dating the hottest, most saucy and zesty, and most interesting and witty women who ever lived and she later, for example, rams a metal pole through one of the U.S. Capitol's windows ... sorry, dollface, you've got to pay the penalty.

Left, right or center. Doesn't matter to me. If you commit a crime ... you do the time.