‘I will not be intimidated’: Former special counsel Jack Smith defends Trump investigation
- Trump has repeatedly called for Smith to face prosecution over the Jan. 6 probe.
- Smith defended his findings that Trump ‘willfully broke the law’ in his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.
Former special counsel Jack Smith on Thursday defended his findings that President Trump “willfully broke the law” in his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, telling lawmakers that Republican efforts to discredit the probe are “false and misleading.”
“No one should be above the law in our country, and the law required that [Trump] be held to account. So that is what I did,” Smith said during a frequently heated five-hour hearing before the House Judiciary Committee.
