{"id":15433,"date":"2025-11-08T19:22:23","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T19:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/jack-smith-takes-a-veiled-swipe-at-trump\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T19:22:23","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T19:22:23","slug":"jack-smith-takes-a-veiled-swipe-at-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/jack-smith-takes-a-veiled-swipe-at-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Smith takes a veiled swipe at Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jack Smith, the Biden era special counsel under renewed scrutiny by congressional Republicans, is taking an apparent swipe at President Donald Trump. In a new letter sent Friday to Senate Judiciary Chair Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), obtained by Blue Light News, lawyers for Smith argue that politics had no influence over their client&#8217;s investigations into Trump and agreed it would be unacceptable for any occupant of the White House to leverage law enforcement against a perceived enemy&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/11\/07\/congress\/smith-lawyers-write-to-grassley-00642522\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jack Smith, the Biden era special counsel under renewed scrutiny by congressional Republicans, is taking an apparent swipe at President Donald Trump. In a new letter sent Friday to Senate Judiciary Chair Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), obtained by Blue Light News, lawyers for Smith argue that politics had no influence over their client&#8217;s investigations into Trump [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}