{"id":18106,"date":"2026-01-23T16:20:45","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T16:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/republicans-tried-to-snag-jack-smith-on-technicalities-but-they-didnt-engage-with-the-facts-2\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T16:20:45","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T16:20:45","slug":"republicans-tried-to-snag-jack-smith-on-technicalities-but-they-didnt-engage-with-the-facts-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/republicans-tried-to-snag-jack-smith-on-technicalities-but-they-didnt-engage-with-the-facts-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans tried to snag Jack Smith on technicalities. But they didn\u2019t engage with the facts."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Instead of focusing on the crux of the former special counsel&rsquo;s Trump cases, GOP House members questioned him on process&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/01\/22\/jack-smith-testimony-trump-00742457\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Instead of focusing on the crux of the former special counsel&rsquo;s Trump cases, GOP House members questioned him on process&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18107,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18106","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=18106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}