{"id":3178,"date":"2026-01-22T20:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T01:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/?p=3178"},"modified":"2026-01-22T20:00:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T01:00:12","slug":"jack-smith-to-detail-trumps-criminal-misconduct-before-congress-and-the-public","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/?p=3178","title":{"rendered":"Jack Smith to Detail Trump\u2019s Criminal Misconduct Before Congress and the Public"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n

Today, former special counsel Jack Smith will testify<\/a> before the House Judiciary Committee in a public hearing to explain why he indicted President Trump, countering the president\u2019s baseless assertion that the indictments were politically motivated. In response, Lisa Gilbert, co-president of Public Citizen, issued the following statement<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

\u201cToday, Jack Smith will have a chance to tell the public what he has told lawmakers in private\u2014 namely how a jury would have found Trump guilty of a criminal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, if the evidence from his time as special counsel was utilized. Republicans are only now allowing this hearing simply because Judge Cannon\u2019s injunction keeping the second volume of Jack Smith\u2019s report private is about to expire. Keeping the truth locked away is an assault on the rule of law and on the transparency owed to the American people.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday will give the American people an opportunity to hear the facts that were collected against the authoritarian President Donald Trump, and why he was lawfully indicted due to violations of federal law; ones that did incredible damage to our democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today, former special counsel Jack Smith will testify before the House Judiciary Committee in a public hearing to explain why he indicted President Trump, countering the president\u2019s baseless assertion that the indictments were politically motivated. In response, Lisa Gilbert, co-president of Public Citizen, issued the following statement: \u201cToday, Jack Smith will have a chance to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"registered_only","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[742],"class_list":["post-3178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ciencia-y-tecnologia","tag-vr-news-net"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}