In his first public testimony about his criminal investigations of Donald Trump, former special counsel Jack Smith said the president was responsible for the violence on 6 January 2021, when hundreds ...

Former special counsel Jack Smith sat for a hearing with the House Judiciary Committee on Thursday, and congressmen from both parties for the most part bombastically plowed familiar political ground.

Thursday’s hearing was Smith’s first chance to defend his work in public ― and to square off against some of the Republicans who’ve spent years vilifying him for prosecuting some of the most obvious c...