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'Justice at last?': Expert says Trump just undermined Jim Jordan's attack on Jack Smith 50%
By Travis Gettys94%
7/23/2026, 5:49:21 AM
Keywords: Jack Smith, Jim Jordan, Donald Trump, Elie Honig, Cnn, Doj, Perjury, Vindictive Prosecution, Truth Social
BS Summary: This article contains 10 faulty reasoning types, including Ambiguity (Equivocation), Framing Effect, and Biased Writer Voice, with Slippery Slope as the most egregious example at 21.2% saturation with 62 hits. Analysis detected 279 faulty-reasoning hits from 293 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 50.3% and a BS Rank of 50% (10,965 of 21,887 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 50.10% of the article peer group.
'Justice at last?': Expert says Trump just undermined Jim Jordan's attack on Jack Smith
President Donald Trump undermined Rep.
Jim Jordan (R-OH)'s criminal most recent attack on Jack Smith with an early morning social media post, CNN legal analyst Elie Honig argued Thursday.
The attack in question is the House Judiciary Committee chairman's letter to the DOJ requesting a criminal investigation of the former special counsel, alleging that Smith made false statements last year during a closed-door congressional deposition.
Trump weighed in on the matter Thursday morning – posting a link on Truth Social to a right-wing website reporting the criminal referral and adding, "Justice at last?"
Honig said that could also undermine the case against Smith.
"Well, if there comes a day where Jack Smith does get indicted, he surely will make a motion to dismiss based on vindictive prosecution," Honig said.
"He will argue, 'This prosecution is the result of a long-standing anger or beef that the president has with me, I was therefore singled out for prosecution because of political reasons, because there is a vendetta going on here,' and if he makes that argument, which he surely will, if he gets prosecuted, this will be an exhibit to make that argument."
The evidence, no matter what Trump posts about the allegations, just isn't strong enough to support a criminal prosecution, Honig argued.
"In order to make a perjury case, you have to show a specific, clear question and a specific, clear, intentional, false answer,"
"I f there was a critique of Jack Smith that he wasn't fully forthcoming, that's valid," Honig added.
"But that's different from saying he committed a criminal act of felony perjury."
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