Kyle Cheney and Chris Marquette
Tue, September 29, 2026 at 5:18 PM EDT
It started with a pledge to expose a Biden-era conspiracy to take down President Donald
Trump. It ended with a botched attack over basketball tickets.
Armed with subpoena
Armed with subpoena power in Congress and a friendly Justice Department on their side, Republican lawmakers have spent two years promising to expose former special counsel Jack Smith as the leader of an anti-Trump witch hunt that morphed into a full-blown attempt to take down the Republican establishment.
Smith's appearance Tuesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee — his third time testifying under oath on Capitol Hill, the second time in public — was...