2024 Election Aftermath

Jack Smith, the special counsel who led the probes into efforts to overturn the 2020 election and the Mar-a-Lago classified‑documents matter (both indictments later abandoned after Trump’s November 2024 win under DOJ opinions barring indictment of a sitting president), will testify publicly before the House Judiciary Committee on the morning of Jan. 22, Rep. Jim Jordan announced. Republicans plan to press Smith — including over obtaining phone records for sitting GOP lawmakers — even as Smith, who in closed‑door testimony said evidence showed Trump was “the most culpable” for Jan. 6 and that the classified‑documents probe found “powerful evidence” of willful retention and obstruction, has sought an open forum to defend his work; Democrats hailed the hearing as a win for truth‑seeking Americans while Trump decries DOJ “weaponization.”