{"id":39251,"date":"2026-01-01T00:17:38","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T00:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/jack-smith-told-house-committee-he-had-proof-beyond-reasonable-doubt-in-cases-against-trump\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T00:17:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T00:17:38","slug":"jack-smith-told-house-committee-he-had-proof-beyond-reasonable-doubt-in-cases-against-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/jack-smith-told-house-committee-he-had-proof-beyond-reasonable-doubt-in-cases-against-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Smith told House committee he had \u2018proof beyond reasonable doubt\u2019 in cases against Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-special counsel testified in front of judiciary committee about aborted federal prosecution of Donald Trump<\/p>\n<p>Jack Smith, the former justice department special counsel who led the aborted federal prosecution of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump<\/a>, told a congressional committee that he never spoke to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/joebiden\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joe Biden<\/a> about his cases, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/judiciary.house.gov\/sites\/evo-subsites\/republicans-judiciary.house.gov\/files\/2025-12\/Smith-Depo-Transcript_Redacted-w-Errata.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the transcript of a deposition<\/a> released on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>In his behind-closed-doors testimony to the House judiciary committee earlier this month, Smith <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/dec\/17\/jack-smith-house-testimony-trump\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">defended the charges<\/a> he brought against Trump for allegedly possessing classified documents and attempting to overturn the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/us-elections-2020\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2020 election<\/a>, while warning of the consequences of allowing election meddling to go unpunished.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/dec\/31\/jack-smith-house-testimony\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-special counsel testified in front of judiciary committee about aborted federal prosecution of Donald Trump Jack Smith, the former justice department special counsel who led the aborted federal prosecution of Donald Trump, told a congressional committee that he never spoke to Joe Biden about his cases, according to the transcript of a deposition released on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39252,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fast-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-25 11:19:21","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}