House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) late Wednesday recommended criminal charges against former special counsel Jack Smith, pushing to tee up a prosecution of the man who led the criminal cases against President Trump.
A copy of the referral obtained by The Hill accused Smith of making false statements to Congress when he was deposed late last year about his investigation and prosecution of Trump.
The letter from Jordan accuses Smith of lying to the committee when asked if he ever subpoenaed the text messages of members of Congress. While Smith ultimately reviewed lawmakers’ texts, they were obtained through the White House.
“This information calls into question the completeness and accuracy of statements that Mr. Smith made under oath to the Committee regarding his team’s access to the content of Members’ text messages,” Jordan wrote to the Justice Department, accusing Smith of providing a “half truth” by failing to mention how the texts were received.
Attorneys for Smith disputed that, saying the former special counsel’s answers were “unimpeachably truthful” and that Jordan was positing an “unprecedented theory that Mr. Smith provided false testimony not because of what he said, but because of what he did not say.”
Rep. Jamie Raskin (Md.), the top Democrat on the panel, swiftly accused Jordan of distorting the facts, saying Smith did not subpoena members’ text messages but rather compelled the National Archives to turn over the communications of White...
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