From Mar-a-Lago raid to phone record grabs, Republicans are readying a Jack Smith reckoning

Former special counsel Jack Smith will likely be recalled to Capitol Hill to testify in his prosecution of two criminal cases against President Trump.

Senator Eric Schmitt, Republican of Missouri, said Republicans had developed information about Arctic Frost, the Biden Justice Department’s prosecution of Mr. Trump, and that now was the time to bring it all together with a hearing to question Mr. Smith.

“I think you can attend a hearing this summer with Jack Smith front and center,” the senator told “Seen, Heard and Whispered.”

He said the Republican Party’s investigation was aided by whistleblowers who revealed the extent of the prosecution of Mr. Trump after his first term. They shed light on the FBI’s justification for the dramatic raid to search for classified documents at Mar-a-Lago, and shed light on the Justice Department’s decision to secretly collect phone records of members of Congress.

“It makes Watergate look like a third-level burglary,” Mr. Schmitt said.

Mr. Smith won indictments against Mr. Trump for mishandling classified documents and for his behavior during the 2020 election.

A local prosecutor in Georgia also charged Mr. Trump for his attempt to achieve victory in the 2020 election.

One federal case was dismissed by a judge and the other was dismissed after Mr. Trump won the 2024 election. The Georgia case was dismissed after Fulton County Prosecutor Fani Willis had an inappropriate relationship with the man she hired to prosecute the case as a special prosecutor.

Newly released documents showed White House officials fawning over Ms. Willis, with one calling her an “icon.”