Overview
- The committee posted a redacted 255-page transcript and more than eight hours of video from Smith’s Dec. 17 closed-door deposition.
- Smith said his teams developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt in the 2020 election and classified-documents investigations and that charging decisions were his.
- He rejected claims of political motivation, said he would make the same decisions regardless of party, and testified he never spoke with President Biden about the cases.
- Smith defended subpoenas for lawmakers’ phone toll records as lawful metadata collection that did not capture call content, while acknowledging judges were not told the targets were members of Congress.
- He noted court orders and grand-jury secrecy limited discussion of the documents case and said key Jan. 6 testimony from Cassidy Hutchinson relied heavily on hearsay.