Ex special counsel Jack Smith may have dropped his cases against President-elect Donald Trump, but Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) claimed he wasn’t done yet with the special counsel.
After Trump won the presidency in November, Jordan’s Oversight committee sent a letter to the Justice Department telling Smith to “preserve your records” related to the Trump election interference case and the classified documents case.
CNN’s Dana Bash asked Jordan Sunday, “When you and I spoke in November. I asked you if you would call Jack Smith to testify. You said that you hadn’t decided, but it was on the table. Now his report has been released. He has stepped down. Will you call him to testify?”
“We’re still looking at all that,” Jordan answered. “One of the things we are going to check into is, one of his lawyers — I mean, this is just one of the many issues I think we need some answers to — but Jay Bratt, one of the guys who worked for him, went to a lawyer who was who was representing one of the defendants in the case, representing Walt Nauta, said to that lawyer, ‘We didn’t know you were a Trump guy. We thought you were interested in this judge position.’ You can’t do those kind of things! So we’re going to investigate that. We’re going to look at a number of things Jack Smith didn’t include in his report, like something that’s happened since I was here in November — the 26 confidential human sources who were there on January 6th, 2021, seventeen within restricted space, four in the inside the Capitol — “
Bash interrupted, “So you’re not done?”
“— two were tasked to be there by the FBI —”
“You’re not done with this?” Bash pressed.
“Yeah, because I think there are lots of answers, lots of questions that the American people want answers to,” Jordan said.
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Smith’s report on Donald Trump’s alleged election interference was released to the public last week. In it, Smith wrote, “Indeed, but for Mr. Trump’s election and imminent return to the presidency, the office assessed that the admissible evidence was sufficient to obtain and sustain a conviction at trial.”
Republicans have long contended that the DOJ was “weaponized” against Trump and committed “election interference” by pursuing criminal charges against him.
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