{"id":60216,"date":"2025-12-31T18:05:25","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T02:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=60216"},"modified":"2025-12-31T18:51:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T02:51:30","slug":"house-judiciary-committee-special-prosecutor-jack-smith-deposition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=60216","title":{"rendered":"Watch Special Prosecutor Jack Smith Deposition on Trump Crimes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Jack Smith Deposition\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lR-bhPzQYUE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Read the Entire Depostion. Click here:\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/judiciary.house.gov\/sites\/evo-subsites\/republicans-judiciary.house.gov\/files\/2025-12\/Smith-Depo-Transcript_Redacted-w-Errata.pdf?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMjU2MjgxMDQwNTU4AAEehqS3Qka5EzkO9E7wOkuygVcrMpVpdExLJ1S9vsr6IJh3OLlxoCj-aSVKjS4_aem_u4Yv_MjM4cwbjA_HND3VEw\">Jack Smith Deposition<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>***********<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><strong>Q:<\/strong> Did you &#8212; you sought gag orders in both the Florida case and the D.C. case. Is that correct?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><strong>Jack Smith:<\/strong>\u00a0 &#8220;We sought an order in the D.C. case under a rule &#8212; I think it&#8217;s 57.2 &#8212; and we did 25 that because Donald Trump was making statements that were endangering witnesses, intimidating witnesses, endangering members of my staff, endangering court staff. 2 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">As you might remember, in the &#8212; right around when the indictment was released, he\u00a0 issued a tweet saying: &#8220;If you come after me, I&#8217;ll come after you.&#8221; <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">He called &#8212; in a tweet, he called General Mark Milley a traitor and mentioned that what he&#8217;d done in olden times people would be put to death. As a result of the things he was saying, the judge in this case was put &#8212; received vile death threats.\u00a0 And with respect to D.C., both the district court and the court of appeals, a panel of judges, found that his actions were, in fact, causing what we said they caused. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">They were\u00a0 causing witnesses to be intimidated and endangering people.\u00a0 And I believe it was the court of appeals also found that in addition to intimidating or chilling witnesses who existed, it would chill witnesses who had not yet come forward because they were afraid that they would be next.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">So, yes, we did file that, and I make no apologies for that.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">*************\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Q: &#8220;Can you tell us why it&#8217;s important for the American people to hear directly from you about your investigation, what you discovered, the process that you went through?&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>JACK SMITH:\u00a0 \u00a0 <span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">&#8220;<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Well, as I said in the in the beginning of, I think, my opening remarks, there have been mischaracterizations about my work.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">The&#8211;we did our work in the best traditions of the Department. 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