There is one clear message that Republicans in the House of Representatives are sending. The GOP really doesn’t want that former special counsel Jack Smith might one day get the chance to tell the American people about his evidence against Donald Trump in the cases of 1/6 and secret documents.
Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee, led by Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH), rejected Smith’s request for a public hearing.
Instead, Republicans want Smith to testify behind closed doors, without cameras.
House Judiciary Committee member Jamie Raskin responded to Jordan trying to cover up Smith by saying:
Chairman Jordan has rejected Special Counsel Jack Smith’s offer to speak publicly to the entire Congress and the country about his investigation into Donald Trump. Instead, he is demanding that he comply with a subpoena for a closed session behind closed doors simply so Republicans can twist, distort and cherry-pick his comments through press leaks. What are our colleagues so afraid of that they won’t let the American people hear directly from the special counsel?
In recent months, Republicans in Congress and the Trump administration have mounted a coordinated campaign to smear Special Counsel Smith and his team for conducting their professional criminal investigation into the months-long efforts by Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani and their allies to keep Trump in power and overturn the results of the 2020 election, which Trump lost to Joe Biden by more than seven million votes, 306-232 in the Electoral College.
Most recently, they falsely claimed that the special counsel was “spying” on certain senators and “tapping” their phones. In fact, around the time of the Jan. 6 attack, he issued lawful subpoenas for three days of their phone records — not the contents of their calls, but the call records, the kind of information found on a monthly phone bill.
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