Senator mixes up Iowa Hawkeyes with Atlanta Hawks during Jack Smith hearing

Former special counsel Jack Smith says he stands by the decisions he made while investigating

President Trump and would make them again. At a contentious Senate Judiciary hearing Tuesday

Smith defended his decision to prosecute Trump, saying his team developed proof beyond a reasonable

doubt that Trump committed serious crimes. Smith also said he will not be silenced by threats of

prosecution against him. If asked whether to prosecute a former president today based on the

same facts, I would do so regardless of whether that president was a Republican or a Democrat

The charges against President Trump were the result of the evidence. Grand juries in two

separate districts reached this conclusion based on his actions, as alleged in the indictments they

returned. Rather than accept his defeat in the 2020 presidential election, President Trump engaged

in a criminal scheme to overturn the results and prevent the lawful transfer of power. After leaving

office in January of 2021, President Trump illegally kept classified documents at his

Mar-a-Lago Social Club and repeatedly tried to obstruct justice to conceal his continued

retention of those documents. Republicans press Smith over his team's efforts to obtain phone

records from GOP lawmakers as part of the 2020 election investigation. Smith defended the move

Do you believe in the tooth fairy? I do not. How about how about the Easter bunny

I no longer believe in the Easter bunny Do you think Jimmy Hoffa died of natural causes I do not Okay Now you sought the phone records of a bunch of U senators right

We sought the toll records, non-content records. Any Democrats or just Republicans

If President Trump had reached out to Democrats to further his... Yeah, but I'm just trying to get the facts

Were there any Democrats who sought their phone records? Just Republicans, right

The toll records that we sought were relevant to the investigation, and they were Republicans

I'm asking you. Then came this exchange over a basketball game. Missouri's Republican Senator Eric Schmidt suggested Smith had been in Atlanta in 2024

and raised the possibility he was there in connection with Fulton County District Attorney Fonnie Willis

What would you say if I had a series of text messages from your team that said you were in Atlanta at a Warrior Hawks game on February 3rd, 2024

the day after Willis and Wade announced their affair? I don't think you know that we have this stuff, so I'll give you a second to process it so you don't perjure yourself

But Schmidt appeared to have the wrong Hawks. Smith said he was at an Iowa Hawkeyes women's basketball game that day against Maryland in Maryland, not an Atlanta Hawks game

Records confirm the Hawkeyes played at Maryland that day. Neither of Smith's cases against Trump ever went to trial

Both were dismissed after Trump won the 2024 election because of Justice Department policy against prosecuting a sitting president