Republican Lawmaker Urges Charges Against Jack Smith
The criminal referral could provide a catalyst for a prosecution of Mr. Smith, who as special counsel became a top target of the president’s retribution campaign.
AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTYou have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load. Representative Jim Jordan, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, asked the Justice Department on Wednesday to investigate whether Jack Smith, the former special counsel, perjured himself when he testified about his inquiry of President Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
According to a copy of the referral reviewed by The New York Times, Mr. Jordan claimed that Mr. Smith “seemingly made willfully and intentionally false statements of material fact” when questioned last December under oath about his efforts to obtain phone records of 44 lawmakers who communicated with Mr.
Trump and his team.The criminal referral could provide a catalyst for a prosecution of Mr. Smith — in many ways the top target of the president’s campaign of retribution.
“The responses provided by Mr. Smith gave the impression that neither Mr. Smith nor his team had access to the content of members’ privileged text messages,” Mr.
Jordan wrote in a letter to Todd Blanche, the acting attorney general who led Mr. Trump’s criminal defense team in the two federal cases brought by Mr. Smith.
“We now know this to be false.”Mr. Smith’s legal team accused Republicans of intentionally taking his answers out of context to provide an excuse to investigate him.
They say he was responding narrowly to the inquiry about the toll records, not speaking more broadly about an investigation he is precluded from publicly discussing without approval from Trump administration officials.Mr. Smith’s lawyers, Peter Koski and Lanny Breuer, said in a letter responding to the referral, obtained by the Times, that the referral was based on a “spurious claim.”
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