September 30: Republicans Berate Jack Smith in Fiery Hearing

Former special counsel Jack Smith forcefully defended his prosecutions of President Trump during a tense Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, pushing back against intense Republican accusations of political bias and DOJ overreach.

The session featured heated exchanges over prosecutors secretly obtaining toll records for, for GOP lawmakers, as well as a blundered attempt by Senator Eric Schmitt to accuse Smith of perjury over a misidentified basketball game.

Meanwhile, Democrats rallied to Smith's defense, framing his testimony and the Justice Department's actions as essential efforts to uphold the rule of law against Trump's election interference and mishandling of classified documents.

Hey, look, Jack Smith is a hero.

He was a hero.

He stood up to an incredible amount of pressure.

He's constantly under threat, and he's still telling the truth.

And what was striking yesterday about these hearings was the fact that this career prosecutor, somebody who is above reproach, somebody whose team was largely Republican, somebody whose witnesses were largely Republican, said again and again that there was a very strong case that Donald Trump had broken federal law in multiple ways, and that if he were in this job again, he would prosecute him now.

That, that should resonate with you folks because the reality is that means that he should be prosecuted.

That means Donald Trump should have been convicted.

That means Donald Trump should either be in jail or he should certainly be a felon and not able to, um, have, uh, uh, run for office as he did.

He would not be the President of the United States.

And that's why Donald Trump is doing so much, and his allies are doing so much to shut him down.

Uh, but, you know, the allies are inept, and the things they accused him of, from Josh Hawley accusing him of illegally getting congressional phone records to Senator Schmitt, uh, confusing, uh, or deliberately getting wrong or whatever it he did, saying that he was at a Atlanta Hawks game, uh, and meddling in, you know, the affairs of, uh, of, uh, of the elections rather than when it turns, as it turns out, he was an Iowa Hawkeyes game in Maryland watching Caitlin Clark, um, they, they just made fools of themselves.

The, the, what Hawley accused him of was, uh, completely legal activity.

What Schmitt accused him of was a fantasy.

Uh, S- Smith, uh, won the day.

Uh, the problem is that the justice system remains, um, uh, you know, damaged and unable to actually achieve what it's supposed to do and protect us against people like Donald Trump.