On March 24, 2026, appearing on The Ingraham Angle, Hoover Institution Senior Fellow and historian Victor Davis Hanson predicted a “reckoning” for former Special Counsel Jack Smith over his Trump-related investigations.
Hanson cited Smith’s overturned 2014 corruption conviction of Republican Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, alleged failure to report free legal services as income, secret surveillance of congressmen and senators, Democratic family political ties, and a clear lack of impartiality.
Victor Davis Hanson began his comments by noting that Smith had put himself in a very poor position, saying, “I think Jack Smith has got a reckoning, a rendezvous coming. I mean, he had a poor record with the governor of Virginia, Bob McDonnell. He has taken legal services free from his firm, and he didn’t really report that as income.”
The Hoover Institute Senior Fellow told Laura Ingraham, “He surveilled congressmen or wanted and Senators. He wasn’t unbiased. His family had political ties, pretty intimate with the Democrats. Everything about him reeked of impartiality, and I think he got his comeuppance, and it’s just a question now, how, if he’ll have to atone for the things he did.”
“But he had this image that he was this professional prosecutor like, you know, Fitzgerald or Mueller, and we don’t dare ask about their credentials or their impartiality,” the famous historian explained in the viral interview.
Concluding his comments, he added, “When they were, they were political. They were ideologues from the beginning, and they worked the law for their own political purposes, hacks from the beginning. That sounds like a new book. Victor. Start working on that tonight. It’s great to see.”
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As we reported in the American Tribune, the walls have started closing in on Jack Smith. On January 22, 2026, during a House Judiciary Committee hearing, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) grilled former Special Counsel Jack Smith, questioning whether believing in election fraud made Trump a criminal, defending the president’s First Amendment rights.
Rep. Darrell Issa began his comments by asking, “If the President believed that he was cheated in an election, that there was fraud, or in some other way, a number of items led to his defeat, when in fact, he should have won according to the Constitution. Does that make him a criminal?”
After the cowardly Smith answered no, he kept going. “Mr. Smith, these people here are continuing to grapple constantly with things that aren’t true, as socialism works, or that somehow everything the Republicans do is evil, and everything they do is right,” the California Republican noted.
Still not done, he continued, “They’ve never reached a conclusion in a typical partisan case in which we’re not evil because we think something different and we’re not wrong. You understand the Constitution? Do you understand the Bill of Rights that someone has the absolute right to believe something, whether it’s true or not, and to advocate for something, whether it’s true or not? Do you understand that, in addition to your oath to the Constitution, that’s one of the things the First Amendment allows for, isn’t it?
“Yes, sir,” Smith ashamedly answered. Continuing, the courageous Rep. stated, “Okay, so if you know that people have a right to opine, lobby for, assert, do everything they can legally, to ask for people to make different decisions. Then why is it you saw criminal conduct on behalf of a president who believed he didn’t win?” flustering the Democrat.
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