Donald Trump spent years battling bogus charges over January 6.
Democrats and the media insisted he orchestrated an insurrection.
And Trump watched the January 6 hoax collapse because of the last person he ever expected.
Smith's congressional testimony destroys the January 6 narrative
Former Special Counsel Jack Smith testified behind closed doors to the House Judiciary Committee in December.
The committee released the transcript and video and Smith's answers under oath demolished the entire January 6 prosecution.
Committee lawyers asked Smith the most important question of the entire investigation.
"So did you develop evidence that President Trump, you know, was responsible for the violence at the Capitol on January 6th?" the lawyer asked.¹
Smith couldn't give a straight answer.
"So our view of the evidence was that he caused it and that he exploited it and that it was foreseeable to him," Smith replied.²
Investigators pressed him again, asking if he had proof Trump ordered his supporters to breach the Capitol.
"But you don't have any evidence that he instructed people to crash the Capitol, do you?" the lawyer followed up.³
Smith launched into another rambling non-answer about Trump creating "distrust" and making "false statements" in the weeks before January 6.⁴
Notice what's missing from Smith's answer.
He never said "yes."
The prosecutor admits Trump didn't plan the violence
The question required one word.
Yes or no.
Smith gave a speech instead.
Byron York from the Washington Examiner called out Smith's evasion on social media.
"In the House deposition, Jack Smith was asked, 'Did you develop evidence that President Trump was responsible for the violence at the Capitol on January 6th?' Read this, and you'll see the short answer should have been, 'No,'" York wrote.⁵
Smith spent two years and $50 million prosecuting Trump over January 6 with unlimited resources and subpoena power.⁶
Sitting under oath in front of Congress, he couldn't say he had evidence Trump planned or ordered the Capitol breach.
The core claim of the January 6 hoax was that Trump orchestrated the violence.
Smith indicted him for it.
But under oath, the prosecutor admitted he never found proof.
In Smith's own final report released in January, he admitted prosecutors "did not obtain 'direct evidence' of Trump's 'intent to cause the full scope of the violence that occurred on January 6.'"⁷
Smith also revealed his office considered charging Trump with violating the Insurrection Act but decided against it because prosecutors worried Trump's actions didn't amount to an insurrection since "he was already in power — rather than challenging a sitting government — when the riot took place."⁸
The special counsel's own lawyers didn't think Trump committed insurrection — the entire basis Democrats used to attack him for four years.
Democrats weaponized the justice system to stop Trump
Trump was right all along about the January 6 witch hunt.
This wasn't about seeking justice for what happened at the Capitol.
This was about preventing Trump from winning the 2024 election.
Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed Smith as special prosecutor in November 2022, just days after Trump announced his campaign for president.
The media cheered every indictment while Democrats in Congress held show trials with the January 6 Committee and demanded Trump be barred from running.
All of it based on a lie.
Trump told his supporters to march "peacefully and patriotically" to the Capitol — not the words of someone planning an insurrection.
Trump won the 2024 election in a landslide and returned to the White House.
Smith's prosecution collapsed, he resigned in defeat, and his own testimony proves what Trump supporters knew all along.
The January 6 charges were a hoax designed to destroy Trump politically.
They spent $50 million persecuting a former president on bogus charges to interfere in an election.
That's tyranny.
Smith's admission vindicates Trump completely.
The man Democrats accused of insurrection was persecuted by prosecutors who knew they couldn't prove their case.
Trump called it a witch hunt from day one.
He was right.
¹ House Judiciary Committee deposition transcript, Jack Smith testimony, December 17, 2024.
² Ibid.
³ Ibid.
⁴ Ibid.
⁵ Byron York, social media post, X, January 2026.
⁶ Fox News, "Special Counsel Jack Smith's federal Trump cases cost taxpayers more than $50 million, financials show," November 26, 2024.
⁷ Special Counsel Jack Smith, "Final Report on the Investigation into the Alleged Conspiracy to Overturn the 2020 Presidential Election," U.S. Department of Justice, January 2025.
⁸ Ibid.
