{"id":142441,"date":"2026-01-22T18:10:53","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T02:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/01\/22\/jack-smith-publicly-testifies-on-donald-trumps-revenge-tour-against-lawyers-public-servants\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T18:10:53","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T02:10:53","slug":"jack-smith-publicly-testifies-on-donald-trumps-revenge-tour-against-lawyers-public-servants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/01\/22\/jack-smith-publicly-testifies-on-donald-trumps-revenge-tour-against-lawyers-public-servants\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Smith Publicly Testifies On Donald Trump\u2019s Revenge Tour Against Lawyers, Public Servants"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

President Trump has sought to seek revenge against career prosecutors, FBI agents and support staff, simply for having worked on these cases. To vilify and seek retribution against these people is wrong. Those dedicated public servants are the best of us.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0Former Special Counsel\u00a0Jack Smith<\/a>, in testimony given today before the House Judiciary Committee, where he asserted that Donald Trump is on a revenge tour<\/a> against those who worked on investigations concerning the president\u2019s alleged attempts to overturn the 2020 election and his alleged mishandling of classified information. Defending his work, Smith went on to say, \u201cOur investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in criminal activity. If asked whether to prosecute a former president based on the same facts today, I would do so regardless of whether that president was a Republican or a Democrat.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a>\u00a0is the managing editor of Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to\u00a0email<\/a>\u00a0her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on\u00a0Bluesky<\/a>,\u00a0X\/Twitter<\/a>, and\u00a0Threads<\/a>,\u00a0or connect with her on\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The post Jack Smith Publicly Testifies On Donald Trump\u2019s Revenge Tour Against Lawyers, Public Servants<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

President Trump has sought to seek revenge against career prosecutors, FBI agents and support staff, simply for having worked on these cases. To vilify and seek retribution against these people is wrong. Those dedicated public servants are the best of us.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0Former Special Counsel\u00a0Jack Smith<\/a>, in testimony given today before the House Judiciary Committee, where he asserted that Donald Trump is on a revenge tour<\/a> against those who worked on investigations concerning the president\u2019s alleged attempts to overturn the 2020 election and his alleged mishandling of classified information. Defending his work, Smith went on to say, \u201cOur investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in criminal activity. If asked whether to prosecute a former president based on the same facts today, I would do so regardless of whether that president was a Republican or a Democrat.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a>\u00a0is the managing editor of Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to\u00a0email<\/a>\u00a0her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on\u00a0Bluesky<\/a>,\u00a0X\/Twitter<\/a>, and\u00a0Threads<\/a>,\u00a0or connect with her on\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The post Jack Smith Publicly Testifies On Donald Trump\u2019s Revenge Tour Against Lawyers, Public Servants<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0Quote of the Day. President Trump has sought to seek revenge against career prosecutors, FBI agents and support staff, simply for having worked on these cases. To vilify and seek retribution against these people is wrong. Those dedicated public servants are the best of us. \u2014\u00a0Former Special Counsel\u00a0Jack Smith, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":142442,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Staci-Zaretsky-AFvxJX.jpg?fit=150%2C100&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}