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Jack Smith BLOWS UP GOP Hearing with TRUMP BOMBSHELLS

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This is the full, timestamped transcript of "Jack Smith BLOWS UP GOP Hearing with TRUMP BOMBSHELLS", an episode of MeidasTouch published December 17, 2025 (16 min, about 2,543 words). It mentions 16 people, works and ideas, including Michael Popok, Special counsel, Jamie Raskin, Robert Hur, U.S. Capitol.

What this episode is about

Special Counsel Jack Smith revealed significant evidence against Donald Trump during a House Oversight Committee meeting, asserting that Trump's actions involved a criminal scheme to overturn the 2020 election results and the unlawful retention of highly classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago residence. Smith's statements, emphasizing the proof beyond a reasonable doubt standard, have heightened scrutiny of Trump's conduct following the election.

Key takeaways

  • Jack Smith shows receipts: Trump stashed secrets in a ballroom bathroom, where satire writes itself.
  • Indictment lands like a plot twist: Beyond reasonable doubt isn't just a phrase; it's Smith's mantra.
  • Phone-a-friend taken too far: Trump's calls from power to power plant him in hot water.
  • Justice isn’t blind to politics, but Smith claims it's colorblind to party lines.
  • Indictments and subpoenas: the new reality TV where democracy's merely a contestant.

Who speaks in this episode?

What is discussed, and when

  1. – 3:00: Special counsel, Wayback Machine
  2. – 6:00: Andrew Weissman
  3. – 9:00: Jamie Raskin, Special counsel
  4. – 12:00: 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, Everyday Dose, Lion's mane
  5. – 15:00: Jamie Raskin
  6. – 15:53: Legal AF Substack, Morning AF

Notable quotes from "Jack Smith BLOWS UP GOP Hearing with TRUMP BOMBSHELLS"

  • Special Counsel Jack Smith is back. And for all the right reasons, the House Oversight Committee thought they were going to bring him into a closed room and not let the American people hear.
    about Special counsel · at
  • President Trump did. Now, we've heard from Jack Smith before. In fact, I'm going to bring you back in the Wayback Machine. Feel like Mr. Peabuddy in the Wayback Machine to when…
    about Wayback Machine · at
  • Hear his testimony. So, he started to get his testimony out and he gave testimony to Andrew Weissman in a over I think it was actually overseas about his investigation and the…
    about Andrew Weissman · at
  • Now, Jamie Rascin, who I've had the pleasure of meeting and introducing at a fundraiser recently, the ranking member of the Democratic Party on the House Judiciary Committee,.
    about Jamie Raskin · at
  • So, that's where Everyday Dose comes in.
    about Everyday Dose · at
  • And the rest. We're still waiting for Ailen Cannon or the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals to release part two, volume two of the Jack Smith report about Mara Lago. We've already had part one. If you read part one and you read it back to.
    about 11th Circuit Court of Appeals · at
  • Michael Popak. Can't get your fill of legal AF? Me neither. That's why we formed the Legal AF Substack. Every time we mention something in a hottake, whether it's a court filing or a oral argument, come over to the Substack.
    about Legal AF Substack · at

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Full transcript with timestamps

Special Counsel Jack Smith is back. And for all the right reasons, the House Oversight Committee thought they were going to bring him into a closed room and not let the American people hear from him and hear about the crimes that he prosecuted against Donald Trump, but it backfired on them today because he gave an opening statement. And we know what that opening statement is from reporting. You're on Midas Touch Network and on Legal AF. Let's get to the bottom of the Jack Smith matter and wait till you hear what he's told the American people in this new reporting. I'm Michael Popach. Glad you're here. Take a minute. Come over to Legal AF YouTube channel. Hit the subscribe button. We're going to crack 1 million subscribers because of you. Here's what the um Jack Smith among many things gave as his opening speech and it went downhill for Donald Trump from here. He said, "Our investigation developed proof beyond a

reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election and to prevent the lawful transfer of power. Our investigation also developed powerful evidence that showed President Trump willfully retained highly classified documents after he left office in January 2021, storing them at his social club, Mara Lago, including in a bathroom, a ballroom, and where events uh and gatherings took place. Let me unpack that for right now. We don't have the video yet because it was behind closed doors because the MAGA Republicans don't want the American people to hear directly from Jack Smith. Although we've heard directly from Jack Smith, our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt. That's even higher than the standard necessary to bring a criminal prosecution. In order to get an indictment, you have to believe that there is probable cause to believe that

you can sustain a conviction through appeal, not prove beyond a reasonable doubt. That's the standard of trial. So he's saying, I have more evidence than I even needed in order to bring this particular case. He also went on to say in his statement, exploiting that violence on Jan 6, President Trump and his associates tried to call members of Congress in furtherance of their criminal scheme, urging them to further delay certification of the 2020 election. This is the Arctic Haze, the investigation into phone calls and and Jack Smith's group not obtaining a wiretap subpoena, but being able to get the records, the bill the the telephone billing records to show who is calling who and when of members of Congress.

Jack Smith went on, he said, "I didn't choose those members that were called. President Trump did." Now, we've heard from Jack Smith before. In fact, I'm going to bring you back in the Wayback Machine. Feel like Mr. Peabuddy in the Wayback Machine to when Jack Smith announced the indictment. Here's a clip of Jack Smith, which just so happens to be, get this, on the Department of Justice website, even as we speak. I'm sure after they see this hot take, it's coming down. But here here's the video uh for you, a little bit of a blast from the past. Jack Smith on the indictment being announced. Play the clip. Today, an indictment was unsealed charging Donald J. Trump with conspiring to defraud the United States, conspiring to disenfranchise voters, and conspiring and attempting to obstruct an official proceeding.

The indictment was issued by a grand jury of citizens here in the District of Columbia, and it sets forth the crimes charged in detail. I encourage everyone to read it in full. The attack on our nation's capital on January 6th, 2021 was an unprecedented assault on the seat of American democracy. Described in the indictment, it was fueled by lies. Lies by the defendant targeted at obstructing a bedrock function of the US government. The nation's process of collecting, counting, and certifying the results of the presidential election.

The men and women of law enforcement who defended the US capital on January 6th are heroes. They are patriots and they are the very best of us. They did not just defend a building or the people sheltering in it. They put their lives in the line to defend who we are as a country and as a people. They defended the very institutions and principles that define the United States. Since the attack on our capital, the Department of Justice has remained committed to ensuring accountability for those criminally responsible for what happened that day.

This case is brought consistent with that commitment, and our investigation of other individuals continues. We've also heard from Jack Smith a couple of months ago when he knew he was going to be the subject of being brought in, being being subpoenaed by Congress to hear his testimony. So, he started to get his testimony out and he gave testimony to Andrew Weissman in a uh over um I think it was actually overseas uh about his investigation and the Department of Justice. Here's a clip to remind you of what Jack Smith said.

Then, the idea that politics would play a role uh in big cases like this uh it's absolutely ludicrous and it's totally contrary to my experience as a prosecutor. These are team players who don't want anything but to do good in the world. They're not interested in politics. And uh I get very concerned when I see how easy it is to demonize these people for political ends.

I worked in the department for years, Republican, Democrat, Republican. I worked in the I was the acting US attorney in the first Trump administration in Tennessee. Nothing like what we see now has ever gone on. If there's rules in the department about how to bring a case, follow those rules. You can't say, "I want this outcome. Let me throw the rules out." The problem is not prosecuting high officials who did something wrong when you do it according to the processes of law in your country. It's the retaliation that's the problem.

Now, Jamie Rascin, who I've had the pleasure of of meeting and introducing at a at a fundraiser recently, uh the uh ranking uh member of the Democratic Party on the House Judiciary Committee, he had this to say about the decision by his colleagues on the right, the MAGA colleagues, not to allow Jack Smith to be heard out loud in front of the American people like the Jan 6 committee. Let's play Jamie Raskins clip. I just want to say that Chairman Jordan made an excellent decision in not allowing Jack Smith to testify publicly because had he done so, it would have been absolutely devastating to the president and all the president's men involved in the uh insurrectionary activities of January the 6th. So, uh, you know, I'm not I can't get into any further particulars, but I'll just say that Jack Smith has just spent several hours schooling the judiciary committee on the professional responsibilities of

a prosecutor and the ethical duties of a prosecutor and he's uh a sensational and honorable public servant and we are lucky to have him uh in the bar in the United States of America. Could you describe at least uh what his message was generally to the community?

No. Again, you know, he was uh he's being answered he's been asked and he's answering questions. So, I he didn't come with any particular message. Um but I I'll just say that he's answered every single question uh to the satisfaction of any reasonable-minded person in that room. any conclusion that you reached at the end of his investigation that he disclosed with the committee in the deposition.

Well, uh his report speaks for itself in terms of uh January the 6th and the indictments that were handed down and the other report should be public. I mean that's just absolutely aberrational that it's not public just like his testimony should be public. Every other special counsel's been able to come here and testify. Robert Mueller's been able to testify. Robert Herr's been able to testify. All the special counselss and independent councils have come in and his second report on the retention of classified documents and what crimes may have been committed should also be released.

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That's everydaydosese.com/legalaf for 45% off your first order. But there's actually more. Here's uh other things that have been he says um the decision to bring charges against President Trump was mine but the basis for those charges rest entirely with President Trump and his actions as alleged in the indictments returned by grand juries in two different districts. Um he maintained that his team found evidence to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that he engaged in that criminal scheme. Um he said, "I made my decision in the investigation without regard to President Trump's political association activities, beliefs, or candidacy in the 2024 presidential election. We took actions, meaning his team took actions based on what the facts and the law required, the very lesson I learned early in my career as a prosecutor." He said he would have made the same decision if Trump had been a Democrat or

Republican, a nod to the GOP members of the committee who believe Smith was pursuing a partisan agenda. and the rest. We're still waiting for Ailen Cannon or the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals to release part two, volume two of the Jack Smith report about Mara Lago. We've already had part one. If you read part one and you read it back to back with the Gen 6 committee's report, I don't even know why. I mean, I'm happy that they're asking Jack Smith to um to testify. Donald Trump wants Jack Smith prosecuted. They want him investigated for what? For doing his job in a nonpartisan way.

If a Democrat did half the things that Donald Trump did, he'd be he or she would be prosecuted, investigated, and we'd want it to be that way. So, what's going to happen now is that there's going to be two competing media campaigns. Jim Jordan and um the other comr on the House MAGA committees are going to try to spoon feed information. They'll try to release the transcript. They'll bury it. Nobody hoping nobody will read it. They won't release the video of it. They wouldn't allow it to be televised because they got everything to hide. as Jamie Raskin pointed out.

That's one media campaign. And then you got Jack Smith who's in the very capable hands of of lawyers like Abby Lol and and a whole team around him. And they're going to get the word out. You're going to see, I think, more public statements, more speeches, more interviews. Maybe we'll get them on on Legal AF. Attention Jack Smith. I'll put up a bat signal. Come to Legal AF for an interview. our audience and the mightest touch audience will be uh really really receptive and pleased. I think he's going to do a lot more than that. We're going to see these competing media, but the American people have made up their mind. They know that Donald Trump was a convicted felon. They know that he um is doing underhanded criminal things even as we speak and trying to hide it from the American people. So, if they thought this was going to be some sort of uh framework that Donald Trump could start using along with these interviews that

his administration is giving like to Vanity Fair of all things and Susie Wilds and he's going on he's going on interview after interview and he's doing a big speech tonight about his economic accomplishments and maybe that we're going to war with Venezuela. if he thought they were going to add into that that Jack Smith's a bad guy and did bad things and um it was all a witch hunt, it backfired because Jack Smith's not a bad guy because he's a competent and talented civil servant that's doing his job without fear of of of retribution, without fear or favor, following the facts wherever they led, proudly representing the Department of Justice.

Remember when the Department of Justice was proud? When it had uh values and a reputation until it was corrupted by Donald Trump and Pam Bondi. I mean, look at the sharp contrast. Jack Smith, choir boy, boy scout, uh, committed to the rule of law, committed to his professional duties as an officer of the court versus what the look what the Department of Justice has become under its chief legal officer, Donald Trump. Corrupted, um partisan political, can't trust a word that comes out of its mouth. and we're going to continue to follow it all right here.

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Questions about this episode

Who speaks in "Jack Smith BLOWS UP GOP Hearing with TRUMP BOMBSHELLS"?

Michael Popok (Host), Jack Smith (Guest), Jamie Raskin (Guest), Everyday Dose (Advertisement Narration) (Guest).

What is "Jack Smith BLOWS UP GOP Hearing with TRUMP BOMBSHELLS" about?

Special Counsel Jack Smith revealed significant evidence against Donald Trump during a House Oversight Committee meeting, asserting that Trump's actions involved a criminal scheme to overturn the 2020 election results and the unlawful retention of highly classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago residence. Smith's statements, emphasizing the proof beyond a reasonable doubt standard, have heightened…

What is mentioned in this MeidasTouch episode?

16 people, works and ideas are mentioned, including Michael Popok, Special counsel, Jamie Raskin, Robert Hur, U.S. Capitol, Wayback Machine. Each one on this page links to its own page with every episode that mentions it.

How long is "Jack Smith BLOWS UP GOP Hearing with TRUMP BOMBSHELLS"?

The episode runs 16 min; the transcript is about 2,543 words in 23 timestamped sections.

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