{"id":18109,"date":"2026-01-23T16:20:43","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T16:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-is-watching-jack-smiths-testimony-and-has-thoughts-2\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T16:20:43","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T16:20:43","slug":"trump-is-watching-jack-smiths-testimony-and-has-thoughts-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-is-watching-jack-smiths-testimony-and-has-thoughts-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump is watching Jack Smith\u2019s testimony \u2014 and has thoughts"},"content":{"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 &ldquo;DECIMATED&rdquo; by members of the House Judiciary Committee &mdash; even as panel Republicans have yet to formally rebut the findings of Smith&rsquo;s investigation into Trump&rsquo;s retention of classified documents and attempts to subvert the results of the 2020 election&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2026\/01\/22\/congress\/trumps-tuning-in-to-smiths-testimony-00741228\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\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 &ldquo;DECIMATED&rdquo; by members of the House Judiciary Committee &mdash; even as panel Republicans have yet to formally rebut the findings of Smith&rsquo;s investigation [&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-18109","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\/18109","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=18109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}