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The House Judiciary Committee’s release of the full transcript and video of Jack Smith’s closed-door deposition should have been the final nail in the coffin for the partisan narrative that the DOJ is above reproach when it targets conservatives. Instead, the spectacle only confirmed what millions of hardworking Americans already suspected: a special counsel with a political agenda was put in charge of investigations that disproportionately targeted one man. The committee’s disclosure showed Smith’s posture and choices under scrutiny, and Americans are right to demand answers about how far prosecutors pushed to influence politics.
Smith’s repeated claim that his team “developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt” against President Trump did not land as a neutral legal pronouncement so much as an admission of prosecutorial zeal—one that prosecutors used to justify extraordinary tactics. Everyday Americans watching knew there’s a difference between gathering evidence and orchestrating an investigation designed to change the political landscape. When a prosecutor insists he would have done the same thing against any president, that assertion rings hollow given the timing, the leaks, and the one-sided focus on a political opponent.
Republican lawmakers were absolutely right to call out the more alarming methods used in the probe, including subpoenas for phone metadata of senators and an aggressive pursuit of witnesses that smelled of a political operation rather than sober law enforcement. Those moves are not “normal” prosecutorial prudence; they are the actions of a political hit squad dressed up in legalese. If your tax dollars are funding investigations that read more like election interference than impartial justice, you have every right to be furious and to demand reforms.
This is not a partisan temper tantrum—it’s congressional oversight doing its job after taxpayers watched prosecutors exceed their lane. House Republicans, led by members like Chairman Jim Jordan, subpoenaed Smith and pushed for transparency because the country cannot tolerate a Justice Department that acts as an arm of one political party. Accountability matters, and any prosecutor who skirts norms to chase a political objective should be investigated and, if warranted, punished.
South Carolina’s own Rep. Russell Fry was right to call Smith’s deposition “beyond the norm” on Newsmax’s National Report, joining others who see this as a troubling example of the DOJ’s politicization. Conservatives have warned for years about weaponized institutions, and now front-page developments prove those warnings were not paranoid—they were prescient. When law enforcement becomes a cudgel to be wielded against political foes, it’s the American people who lose, and the Constitution that suffers.
Make no mistake: this isn’t about shielding any individual from legitimate accountability; it’s about restoring the rule of law and the principle that justice must be blind—not politicked. The American people deserve a Justice Department that serves all citizens equally, not a permanent prosecutor’s office that targets one side of the aisle. Conservatives will keep fighting to rein in weaponized institutions until the DOJ is once again worthy of the trust American families place in it.
If Washington wants to prove it’s serious about fairness, Republicans and sensible Democrats should push immediate reforms: clear rules restricting special counsel overreach, stricter limits on subpoenas that touch members of Congress, and real consequences for prosecutors who cross ethical lines. The alternative is bleak—a nation where elections and law enforcement become interchangeable tools of vendetta. Hardworking Americans who built this country deserve better than that, and we must demand it now.
