Source: National Public Radio [US state media]
“Former special counsel Jack Smith on Thursday defended his decision to secure two criminal indictments against President Trump and asserted his team had gathered enough evidence to convict. Smith gave his first public testimony about his work Thursday, appearing before the House Judiciary Committee. Republican members of the panel attacked Smith’s move to collect phone records of lawmakers who had been in contact with Trump allies around the time of the Capitol riot in 2021. And they cast the historic investigations of Trump as politically motivated. … In a videotaped deposition, Smith said the president had only himself to blame, for charges he tried to overturn the will of voters in 2020.” (01/22/26)
https://www.npr.org/2026/01/22/nx-s1-5683973/jack-smith-house-trump-investigations