Former special counsel Jack Smith did not invoke his Fifth Amendment rights during eight hours of testimony Wednesday behind closed doors to the House Judiciary Committee, the panel’s chairman said.
“He did not take the Fifth like some of his deputies did,” Jim Jordan, an Ohio Republican, said on Fox News on Thursday.
Smith defended both of his investigations into Donald Trump, telling members that he charged Trump regardless of his political party affiliation. Smith and his attorneys have previously said that he wanted the opportunity to correct mischaracterizations about his investigations.
Exactly. Smith is laying everything out because he’s in a special position where the prosecution is particularly malicious. Everything he says or omits will be used against him but everything he says can also stand against the prosecution. It’s the closest to the old school American court movie defense speech you can get irl