{"id":383343,"date":"2026-09-30T10:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T09:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/gop-senators-perjury-trap-for-jack-smith-backfires\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T10:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T09:00:08","slug":"gop-senators-perjury-trap-for-jack-smith-backfires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/gop-senators-perjury-trap-for-jack-smith-backfires\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP senator&#8217;s perjury trap for Jack Smith backfires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.ytimg.com\/vi\/uT2BGYa6RSc\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"GOP senator's perjury trap for Jack Smith backfires\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uT2BGYa6RSc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>Special counsel Jack Smith, who brought two indictments against now-President Donald Trump in 2023, testified in front of Congress again on Tuesday \u2014 this time, to the Senate Judiciary Committee.<\/p>\n<p>Smith\u2019s testimony comes as Republicans continue to probe the investigations into Trump and as some in the party, including the president, have pushed for often-unspecified criminal charges to be brought against Smith.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans have struggled mightily to substantiate Trump\u2019s desire for Smith to be charged criminally. But rarely has it seemed to backfire like it did Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>0:00 The embarrassing moment for Sen. Eric Schmitt<br \/>\n4:27 Proof that Jack Smith was at an Iowa-Maryland game<br \/>\n6:19 How did Eric Schmitt get it so wrong?<br \/>\n8:17 Rep. Jamie Raskin on the attempted perjury trap<\/p>\n<p>Watch 24\/7 live news with CNN Headlines: https:\/\/bit.ly\/4eIvlTr<\/p>\n<p>#News #senate #justice<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Special counsel Jack Smith, who brought two indictments against now-President Donald Trump in 2023, testified in front of Congress again on Tuesday \u2014 this time, to the Senate Judiciary Committee. Smith\u2019s testimony comes as Republicans continue to probe the investigations into Trump and as some in the party, including the president, have pushed for often-unspecified [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":383344,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[128809],"tags":[],"actors":[],"class_list":["post-383343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cnn"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>GOP senator&#039;s perjury trap for Jack Smith backfires | News ISC Videos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Watch GOP senator&#039;s perjury trap for Jack Smith backfires for free, here on News ISC. 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