{"id":18061,"date":"2026-01-22T18:02:03","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T18:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-is-watching-jack-smiths-testimony-and-has-thoughts\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T18:02:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T18:02:03","slug":"trump-is-watching-jack-smiths-testimony-and-has-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-is-watching-jack-smiths-testimony-and-has-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump is watching Jack Smith\u2019s testimony \u2014 and has thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>As former special counsel Jack Smith testifies publicly before Congress for the first time, President Donald Trump is watching.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/115939889414201547\" target=\"_blank\">Truth Social post<\/a> Thursday afternoon, Trump wrote that Smith was being \u201cDECIMATED\u201d by members of the House Judiciary Committee \u2014 even as panel Republicans have yet to formally rebut the findings of Smith\u2019s investigation into Trump\u2019s retention of classified documents and attempts to subvert the results of the 2020 election.<\/p>\n<p>The president also suggested he hoped Attorney General Pam Bondi was looking into Smith&#8217;s conduct.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf he were a Republican, his license would be taken away from him, and far worse!\u201d Trump wrote of Smith. \u201cHopefully the Attorney General is looking at what he\u2019s done, including some of the crooked and corrupt witnesses that he was attempting to use in his case against me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Smith&#8217;s cases were widely seen as the strongest vehicles for putting Trump behind bars. Both matters were ultimately dropped by the Justice Department before Trump took office for the second time in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The Trump Justice Department has sought to bring criminal charges against several of the president&#8217;s political adversaries, including New York Attorney General Letitia James and former FBI Director James Comey. Trump has also long argued for Smith&#8217;s prosecution, too.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for Smith declined to comment on Trump&#8217;s post beyond Smith&#8217;s remarks during the hearing.<\/p>\n<p>House Republicans have been antagonistic of Smith during the hearing so far but have focused their questioning heavily on Smith&#8217;s procedure in pursuing his cases against the president \u2014 most notably the subpoenas he obtained for the phone data of several sitting Republican lawmakers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As former special counsel Jack Smith testifies publicly before Congress for the first time, President Donald Trump is watching. In a Truth Social post Thursday afternoon, Trump wrote that Smith was being \u201cDECIMATED\u201d by members of the House Judiciary Committee \u2014 even as panel Republicans have yet to formally rebut the findings of Smith\u2019s investigation [&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-18061","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\/18061","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=18061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}