Jordan Hits Jack Smith for Criminal Referral for Alleged False Statements to Congress
“His conduct can only be understood as an effort to thwart the Committee’s inquiry by intentionally making false statements and representations before Congress.”
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan referred former Special Counsel Jack Smith for criminal prosecution for allegedly making false statements during his December 17, 2025, deposition.
#BREAKING: Chairman @Jim_Jordan referred former Special Counsel Jack Smith to the Department of Justice for criminal prosecution.
The evidence appears to show that Jack Smith knowingly made false statements while testifying under oath before the Committee.
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— House Judiciary GOP 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 (@JudiciaryGOP) July 23, 2026
Jordan told acting Attorney General Todd Blanche that the committee has “strong evidence” against Smith.
“All individuals have an obligation to comply with a duly authorized congressional inquiry,” said Jordan. “Mr. Smith, a former public servant, is no different. Yet his testimony included intentionally false statements designed to obstruct the Committee’s oversight. His conduct can only be understood as an effort to thwart the Committee’s inquiry by intentionally making false statements and representations before Congress.”
Jordan wrote:
New information obtained by the Committee reveals how Mr. Smith likely circumvented key constitutional protections, including the Speech or Debate Clause, to spy on Members of Congress. On July 14, 2026, the DOJ produced documents to the Committee revealing that Mr. Smith’s team obtained text messages of 44 Members of Congress—implicating both Republicans and Democrats in both chambers of Congress—that may have included privileged content. This information calls into question the completeness and accuracy of statements that Mr. Smith made under oath to the Committee regarding his team’s access to the content of Members’ text messages.
The new information received on July 14 showed that Mr. Smith’s team likely violated DOJ’s own internal policy and obtained text messages between Members of Congress and Executive Branch officials that may have included privileged content, without any screening by a filter team for potential privileges. The filter team procedures state that “[n]o materials shall be disclosed to the investigative team without approval of a filter team attorney.” Despite this, on August 21, 2023, Senior Assistant Special Counsel Thomas Windom received an email from the General Counsel of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) in response to the Special Counsel Office’s June 2, 2023 request, for NARA to produce “Presidential records of the Trump administration . . . .” In that email, NARA attached “54 spreadsheets containing requested custodians’ text messages” from White House phones. Windom then reviewed the text messages and proceeded to forward the content of the texts to fellow prosecutors on the investigative team. Windom, as a member of Smith’s investigative team, should not have had access to the content of those text messages until after they were reviewed by the filter team.
The Filter Team exists to prevent investigators from getting privileged materials.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley revealed the information on July 14.
The DOJ provided Grassley and Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations Chairman Ron Johnson with the documents “after receiving legally protected whistleblower disclosures.”
The documents show that Smith and his team “read the text messages of 44 members of Congress from both parties and White House staff during its investigation.”
The team also targeted former Vice President Mike Pence, White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, current FBI Director Kash Patel, and Ivanka Trump
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Jack Smith is dirty and should be prosecuted.
What’s this? Jimmy Jordan finally stops the talking and grandstanding and actually does his job and refers Smith to the DoJ for possible prosecution? Will miracles never cease. Too bad the DoJ won’t do a thing about investigating or indicting Smith. They’ll just slow walk it past the Nov. 2026 midterm elections and then quietly drop the whole matter when they think nobody is looking. But it’s good for at least a couple of headlines in the news, right? Right?!?
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I do get the distinct impression that nobody is REALLY serious about this prosecution. I haven’t seen slow-walking like this since my last visit to the geriatric orthopedics wing.
It would be helpful to see the affidavits presented to the court. I believe we have already been informed Judge Boasberg was the Judge that approved the subpoenas and the secrecy order, but there could be others. The idea that Judge Boasberg himself was involved in a more organizational role is not above conjecture given his behavior.
I also believe that while these subpoenas and the lying by all involved either directly or by omission are most egregious because of the separation of powers and the immunities of legislators, I wonder how many citizens and government employees were swept up by Garland’s madhouse?
Hope this dirty cop gets what he deserves, along with other dirty cops that have abused power and deprived people of their rights.
There are so many in government who are so corrupt…I often feel there’s no way to ever get them all rooted out…they all cover for and support each other…and just when the noose is beginning to tighten, here comes the Presidential pardons…and then it all disappears.
wake me up when DOJ does something
o look something in the in box
o it’s a month old past expiration date
we really need to check more often.
there are too many positions on board of
directors for congressmen that you meet at the right dinner parties, for this to go anyware.
I’m betting the backpedaling roughs out as “Well, I never actually *looked* at the texts and there’s no documentary evidence I *saw* them and nobody on my unindicted co-conspirator…I mean staff is going to testify they saw me looking at them, so all I knew is that we *might* have acquired the text messages by complete accident and subpoena but more subpoena and anybody could have slipped and signed their name to that document so it’s really Trump’s fault.”
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