Overview
- In a public House Judiciary hearing, Smith said evidence showed Trump pursued an unlawful plan to block the transfer of power to Joe Biden.
- Smith defended his indictments as evidence-driven and said he would bring the same charges against any president under the same facts.
- He assigned Trump primary responsibility for the January 6 Capitol assault, saying the unrest was foreseeable and then exploited to advance the plan.
- The Justice Department applied its Watergate-era policy to suspend both federal cases, including the classified documents matter.
- Republicans led by Chair Jim Jordan accused Smith of politicization, while Trump attacked him on Truth Social and called the prosecutions a scam.