Three House Republican lawmakers on Dec. 1 asked special counsel Jack Smith to turn over documents related to his criminal indictments of former President Donald Trump, asserting that Mr. Smith has a political motivation in pursuing the indictments.
“The Committee is concerned your unprecedented investigation and fervent prosecution of President Trump is not about any true commitment to equal justice under the law, but an (increasingly contrived) attempt to use the criminal justice system to defame the former president before the 2024 Presidential election,” reads the Dec. 1 letter addressed to Mr. Smith and signed by Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), chair of the House Oversight Committee; Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.); and Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), chair of the chamber’s Judiciary Committee.
