By The American Tribune | Created at 2026-10-02 16:00:53 | Updated at 2026-10-02 16:54:01
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Jack Smith was yet again dragged before Congress, this time before the Senate Judiciary Committee, to which he testified on Tuesday, September 29. When he did so, Sen. Josh Hawley utterly raked him over the coals and exposed his many lies to the nation, calling him out to his face and accusing him of perjury. It was quite the performance, and Smith looked like a deer in headlights for it.
Particularly, Hawley berated Smith for his role in the Operation Arctic Freeze debacle that saw the FBI demanding text records of many Americans, including dozens of senators and members of Congress, as part of his investigation into President Donald Trump, something that many saw as being outright tyranny of the worst sort.
Skewering Smith over the spying, Hawley said, “On June the second, 2023, two full years earlier, you demanded from the National Archives records that included text messages from 44 United States senators and members of Congress, and indeed you got all of those records. Isn’t that correct?”
Smith tried to chime in and explain what had happened, looking both flustered and flummoxed as he said, “Yes, and I’m happy to explain that if you’ll give me–” Hawley, cutting him off, snapped, “Oh no! I understand that you got them. We all understand.”
Continuing from there, Hawley told Smith that America knows what he was up to becuase the DOJ disclosed it later on, not because Smith ever admitted what was happening. He said, “we know it not because you told us, but because the Department of Justice disclosed it.”
Adding to that, he snapped, “So two full years before this deposition, you were in possession of text messages from 44 members of Congress that you went and subpoenaed. You read them within 30 minutes, the Department of Justice told this committee. They said that within an hour of receiving those text messages, your team was reading them, and yet not only did you not notify any member of Congress whose text messages you obtained pursuant to your process, you told the House two full years later, having read all 44 members’ messages. you told them you’d never gotten messages.”
Then, calling him out directly for his lies, Hawley snapped, “You’d never requested messages from any member of Congress. That was a lie, Mr. Smith. And you may try to lawyer your way out of it. Well, it wasn’t from the member. It was from the archives. You knew exactly what you were being asked. And you deliberately misled them. You’re a smart guy. I think that’s pretty clear.”
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Continuing to berate him for his lies, Hawley said, :But you use your ability and the powers of your office to lie to the court, to lie to Congress, to lie to the American people, to lie to the House. It’s the worst abuse of prosecutorial power in the history of the United States. And all I have to say is, I’m glad you failed. I don’t know what our democracy would be like if you had succeeded in your effort to interfere in the workings of a presidential election.”
Concluding, he vowed that he would charge Smith with perjury if he could, saying, “If it were up to me, I’d charge you with perjury. We should certainly be disbarred, and I can only pray that nothing like this will ever happen again in the United States of America.”
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