Megyn Kelly

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Former special counsel Jack Smith appearing before the House Judiciary Committee yesterday, defending his collapsed cases against President Trump as Republicans accused him of overreach, secrecy, and abuse of prosecutorial power.

Former Attorney General Merrick Garland appointing Smith in 2022 to oversee two investigations into then-candidate Trump, the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case and the 2020 January 6th case, both cases falling apart in 2024.

Throughout the hearing, Democrats repeatedly coming to Smith's defense, praising his conduct and portraying him as a principled public servant, always acting in good faith.

Here, Congressman Jamie Raskin of Maryland, Eric Swalwell of California, and Joe Neguse of Colorado.

We spoke to Julie Kelly, reporter for Declassified on Substack, who has closely followed these cases from the very beginning.

She says the day did not go well for Jack Smith.

Republicans walking through Smith's record, challenging his methods, focusing in particular on his decision to secretly subpoena the phone records of multiple GOP members of Congress.

In other words, members of a co-equal branch of government to the executive, which employed Jack Smith.

Those records obtained under nondisclosure orders, preventing the phone companies from notifying their customers that their records had even been turned over to prosecutors.

Congressman Brandon Gill of Texas questioning Smith on nondisclosure orders Gill says Smith secured to obtain then-House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's records.

According to Kelly, Smith faced little resistance from the judges overseeing his probes.

Kelly argues those approvals came with little concern for future scrutiny because these prosecutors and judges never expected Donald Trump to return to power.

Elsewhere in the hearing, Congressman Daryl Issa of California pressing Smith on potential political motivations for seeking these records.

Congressman Kevin Kiley from California tying it all together, demonstrating a larger pattern in which Smith repeatedly pushed legal boundaries.

Kelly says these failures reflect a broader pattern across Smith's entire career.

Barron Trump credited with helping to save a woman's life last year after witnessing an alleged assault over FaceTime and alerting UK authorities.

Prosecutors on Wednesday playing a recording of a 999 call, the UK's version of 911, during the London trial of Matvei Rumyantsev.

a former MMA fighter accused of assaulting and raping his ex-girlfriend, who cannot be named under UK law.

According to prosecutors, the incident occurring in January 2025, when then 18-year-old Barron Trump received a FaceTime call from a female friend in London and witnessed her being attacked.