{"id":18141,"date":"2026-01-24T15:21:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T15:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/jim-jordan-launches-his-attacks-on-jack-smith-2\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T15:21:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T15:21:06","slug":"jim-jordan-launches-his-attacks-on-jack-smith-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/jim-jordan-launches-his-attacks-on-jack-smith-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim Jordan launches his attacks on Jack Smith"},"content":{"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 cases against Trump &mdash; among them Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2026\/01\/22\/congress\/jordan-begins-jack-smith-grilling-00740848\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\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":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18141","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\/18141","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=18141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}