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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Andrew Feinberg

Jack Smith wants Congress to release his closed-door testimony on Trump’s cases

The ex-federal prosecutor who brought a pair of federal criminal cases against President Donald Trump during his time out of office wants his marathon Congressional testimony about the cases to be released to the public.

Former Department of Justice special counsel Jack Smith spent nine hours testifying behind closed doors before the House Judiciary Committee earlier this month about his efforts to prosecute Trump on charges that he allegedly illegally retained classified documents from his first term at his Palm Beach, Florida property and allegedly tried to illegally overturn the results of the 2020 election that he’d lost to Joe Biden.

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