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Trump ‘engaged in criminal activity’, Jack Smith says in Capitol Hill testimony (Barf alert)
BBC News ^ | 22nd January 2026 | Ana Faguy

Posted on 01/22/2026 5:32:04 PM PST by Ennis85

Smith doesn’t regret charging Trump Smith told lawmakers that he did not regret his decision to charge Trump in both felony indictments.

"If asked whether to prosecute a former president based on the same facts today, I would do so regardless of whether that president was a Republican or a Democrat," he said. "No one should be above the law in our country, and the law required that he be held to account. So that is what I did."

The former special counsel said his team had collected “overwhelming evidence” that could have secured convictions in both cases.


"The evidence here made clear that President Trump was, by a large measure, the most culpable and most responsible person in this conspiracy," Smith said about the election interference case.


Crimes committed on 6 January were for Trump's benefit, Smith contended.

"The attack that happened at the Capitol, part of this case, does not happen without him,” he said. “The other co-conspirators were doing this for his benefit."

Smith expects Trump to continue to target him One lawmaker asked if Smith expected to be indicted by the justice department over his investigations. Attorney General Pam Bondi currently leads the department and has close ties to Trump.

“I believe they will do everything in their power to do that because they have been ordered to by the president,” said Smith, who was appointed by former Attorney General Merrick Garland during the Biden administration.

Trump’s repeated statements about him and the investigations “are meant to intimidate me”, Smith added.

“I will not be intimidated," he said. "I think these statements are also made as a a warning to others of what will happen if they stand up."

Over the summer, federal officials opened an investigation into Smith. What specifically is being looked into

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2020election; democratjacktivist; derangedjacksmith; hislipsaremoving; j6; jacksmith; partisanhack; professionalliar; smithisrightagain; trump

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Was watching the BBC coverage of it where they brought on former prosecuter Glenn Kirschner for his insight which had all the impartiality you could expect.

"The republicans had no response to Jack Smith's facts".

1 posted on 01/22/2026 5:32:04 PM PST by Ennis85
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Smith is the poster boy for TDS.
Nutty as a fruitcake....


2 posted on 01/22/2026 5:35:19 PM PST by lgjhn23 ("On the 8th day, Satan created the progressive liberal to destroy all the good that God created...")
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To: Ennis85
See also: post #40
3 posted on 01/22/2026 5:36:22 PM PST by Texas Eagle ("Throw me to the wolves and I'll return leading the pack"- Donald J. Trump)
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To: Ennis85

“”””If asked whether to prosecute a former president based on the same facts today, I would do so regardless of whether that president was a Republican or a Democrat,” he said. “No one should be above the law in our country, and the law required that he be held to account. So that is what I did.” “””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””

Well.....Perhaps he should go after Biden then since it was proven that he had been stealing and stashing classified documents for decades.


4 posted on 01/22/2026 5:36:53 PM PST by shelterguy
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To: Ennis85

Smith was an illegality appointed crook and always has been. Overturned by the supremes 9-0


5 posted on 01/22/2026 5:37:15 PM PST by DesertRhino (When men on the chessboard, get up and tell you where to go…)
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Go ahead and open up the way for Trump to expose your skeletons, Jackie.


6 posted on 01/22/2026 5:38:04 PM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is goings to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Ennis85

Jackie Smith is starting to look like this year’s
Fool On A Hill:

“But nobody wants to know him
They can see that he’s just a Fool
And he never gives an answer
Just a Fool on a hill ...”


7 posted on 01/22/2026 5:44:32 PM PST by lee martell
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To: Ennis85

And he couldn’t make the case with four years of Biden giving him cover to prove it. He should be a piñata in prison if there were any justice in this country.


8 posted on 01/22/2026 5:51:27 PM PST by DAC21
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The guy admitted his entire “evidence” was based on hearsay of a flakey witness but has the audacity to say “He committed a crime and I was just doing my job.”


9 posted on 01/22/2026 5:52:11 PM PST by Skywise
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“No one should be above the law ...” Except for Smith and his cabal of Marxists - uh, I mean “DEmocrats.”


10 posted on 01/22/2026 5:54:19 PM PST by JME_FAN ("It's just the normal noises in here.")
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He will be judged for his deception.


11 posted on 01/22/2026 5:58:24 PM PST by Eli Kopter (Wherever you are, that is where you are supposed to be...)
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To: JME_FAN

Trump better kick the arrests and jailings of the left into overdrive while he still can because when the left retakes Washington, it is gonna a whole new level of lawfare and trump and his family and organizations are gonna be public enemy number 1.


12 posted on 01/22/2026 6:10:50 PM PST by hillarys cankles
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To: Ennis85

Was Jack Smith approved by Congress to be special prosecutor?
Was he previously approved by Congress to work for the DOJ?
Was he legally sworn in with witnesses when he started?
Did Jack Smith identify the FBI agents and thier activities on Jan 6th?
Why did Jack Smith lie and say that Donald Trump didn’t authorize National Guard when he did and Nancy Pelosi blocked it?
Why does Jack Smith believe that delaying the Electorialcollege after 100 Congress people requested it, is illegal? What does the Constitution say?

Jack Smith lied and made things up in his Congressional testimony already. Hope he is not above the law, because contempt is coming,


13 posted on 01/22/2026 6:11:16 PM PST by Pete Dovgan
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Great song, crappy prosecutor. Did I mention corrupt to the core?


14 posted on 01/22/2026 6:25:07 PM PST by Blue Highway ( )
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To: Ennis85
Jack Smith looked like a scared hamster today. He used to be full of swagger. Now he looks
beaten down. Evidently he never took the oath for his role, and thus had no authority to indict
anyone. He was working in unofficial capacity without authority. Eventually Merick Garland made Smith take the oath of office more than a year after Smith had started a witch hunt.

15 posted on 01/22/2026 6:26:18 PM PST by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and his mercy endures forever. — Psalm 106)
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To: hillarys cankles

Tell the bimbo at DoJ. And the dummy at the FBI. He thinks they won’t be re weaponized if the dems gain power.


16 posted on 01/22/2026 6:37:36 PM PST by HYPOCRACY (Wake up, smell the cat food in your bank account. )
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To: Ennis85

This statement should lead to a defamation lawsuit by DJT...


17 posted on 01/22/2026 6:52:53 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is rabble-rising Sam Adams now that we need him? Is his name Trump, now?)
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To: Ennis85

Rasputin needs his ass kicked.


18 posted on 01/22/2026 7:19:14 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Cheech Frey and his sidekick, Timmy Chong have turned Minniesolmalia into a Cheech & Chong movie.)
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He’s a poster boy for the banality of Evil.


19 posted on 01/22/2026 7:19:30 PM PST by Quentin Quarantino
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To: Ennis85

I get so weary of these fools mouthing off about no one should be above the law in this country. Trying to clothe themselves in robes of purity. Everyone knows that is code language to knife your opponent and it is the corrupt demented democrats who squeal that the loudest.


20 posted on 01/22/2026 7:23:40 PM PST by odawg
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