Smith told the Senate Judiciary Committee that he stands behind the criminal cases he brought against President Trump and that he and his team acted without regard to politics.

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Ex-Trump prosecutor Smith forcefully defends investigations as Republicans assail his team's tactics

Ex-Trump prosecutor Smith forcefully defends investigations as Republicans assail his team's tactics

Former special counsel Jack Smith has forcefully defended his prosecutions of President Donald Trump and his investigative tactics. He pushed back against repeated Republican efforts to paint him and his team as partisan political operators during a Senate hearing Tuesday that divided along familiar party lines. The hearing came as Republicans have pushed for Smith to himself be prosecuted and offered a forum for them to assail him for what they contend were politicized prosecutions that unfolded at the height of the 2024 presidential race. Democrats rallied to Smith’s defense, eliciting testimony about the legal and factual basis for the criminal cases against then-candidate Trump and decrying the Trump administration’s firing of prosecutors involved in the investigations.