{"id":18052,"date":"2026-01-22T15:46:41","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T15:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/jim-jordan-launches-his-attacks-on-jack-smith\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T15:46:41","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T15:46:41","slug":"jim-jordan-launches-his-attacks-on-jack-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/jim-jordan-launches-his-attacks-on-jack-smith\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim Jordan launches his attacks on Jack Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan is looking to paint former special counsel Jack Smith as the culmination of a yearslong campaign by Democrats to leverage law enforcement activities against President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>In his opening remarks Thursday morning, the Ohio Republican reiterated complaints against a laundry list of government officials involved with investigations or criminal cases against Trump \u2014 among them Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, former FBI Director James Comey and a former deputy to Smith, Thomas Windom. <\/p>\n<p>Jordan has already referred Windom to the Justice Department for criminal prosecution over his refusal to cooperate with his panel\u2019s investigative work.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe should never forget what took place, what they did to the guy \u2018We the People\u2019 elected president twice,\u201d Jordan said, referring to Trump. \u201cThe good news is, the American people saw through it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jordan, a notable political showman and steadfast Trump ally, is seeking to portray Smith as hellbent on thwarting Trump\u2019s electoral victory in 2024. Smith has said that politics played no part in his work investigating Trump&#8217;s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election and Trump&#8217;s handling of classified documents as part of the Biden Justice Department and insisted that he would have pursued the same case under the same conditions with a Democratic or Republican former president. <\/p>\n<p>Smith has served in administrations under both parties.<\/p>\n<p>During Jordan&#8217;s remarks, Smith coolly sipped from his water bottle and remained stoic.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) countered Jordan\u2019s account of Smith\u2019s work, noting that Trump has called for the imprisonment of the man who pursued criminal charges against him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot because you did anything wrong, mind you, but because you did everything right,\u201d Raskin added. \u201cYou had the audacity to do your job.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan is looking to paint former special counsel Jack Smith as the culmination of a yearslong campaign by Democrats to leverage law enforcement activities against President Donald Trump. In his opening remarks Thursday morning, the Ohio Republican reiterated complaints against a laundry list of government officials involved with investigations or criminal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18052","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=18052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}