华盛顿——前特别检察官杰克·史密斯曾提起两起针对唐纳德·特朗普的联邦刑事诉讼，但这些诉讼后来都被驳回。预计他将于周二在参议院面临总统的支持者的质询，内容将涉及他在调查特朗普试图推翻2020年选举结果的行为时的处理方式。此次听证会在司法部的推动下举行，司法部正在追究那些参与史密斯相关调查的执法官员的责任，同时也在调查史密斯在2021年1月卸任后处理机密文件的行为。
WASHINGTON — Former special counsel Jack Smith, who brought two since-dismissed federal criminal cases against Donald Trump, is expected to face questions on Tuesday from the president’s allies in the Senate about his handling of his investigation into Trump’s efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss in the lead-up to the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Smith is set to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee amid the Justice Department’s push to target law enforcement officials involved with Smith’s investigation into Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 election results as well as the probe into his handling of classified documents after he left office in January 2021.
参议院司法委员会主席、来自爱荷华州的共和党人查克·格拉斯利多次批评过史密斯。周二听证会的标题为“对杰克·史密斯滥用职权行为的监督以及针对共和党人的行为”，这表明听证会可能会充满争议。格拉斯利认为史密斯滥用了调查权力，并出于政治目的针对共和党人。作为职业检察官，史密斯曾对共和党和民主党人都进行过调查，但他否认了这些指控。
Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, has repeatedly criticized Smith. The title of Tuesday’s hearing, which Grassley will chair — “Oversight of Jack Smith’s Abuse of Authority and the Targeting of Republicans and Related Matters” — suggests a potentially combative hearing. With it, Grassley asserts that Smith misused his investigative powers and politically targeted Republicans. Smith, who as a career prosecutor went after Republicans and Democrats, has denied such allegations.
格拉斯利在听证会前发表声明称，史密斯“必须为他的行为负责”；他认为史密斯的这些行为属于“滥用职权”，且相关费用是由美国纳税人支付的。格拉斯利还表示：“如果史密斯对民主党人做出同样的事，媒体肯定会对此进行持续报道。”史密斯在听证会前并未发表任何声明。
Grassley said in a statement ahead of the hearing that Smith “must answer” for what the senator portrays as “rampant abuse of authority and political targeting” funded by American taxpayers. “If Jack Smith did that to Democrats, you’d never hear the end of it,” Grassley said in the statement, adding that his goal is holding accountable the Justice Department for actions taken during the Biden administration. Smith did not issue a statement in advance of his testimony.
史密斯曾表示，他相信如果2020年选举相关案件进入审判阶段，陪审团会判定特朗普有罪；他还称，认为他的决定“受到拜登政府或其他政治参与者的影响或指使”的说法，“简而言之，是可笑的”。史密斯在选举干预案的最终报告中指出，特朗普在1月6日国会山骚乱事件中“煽动其支持者实施暴力行为”。特朗普在史密斯负责的1月6日案件中拒不认罪，并在袭击发生后否认煽动支持者，称他当天在集会上的言论“完全恰当”。
Smith has said he believes a jury would have convicted Trump in the 2020 election-related case had it gone to trial and that the notion that his decisions were “influenced or directed by the Biden administration or other political actors is, in a word, laughable.”Smith’s final report in the election interference case stated that Trump “inspired his supporters to commit acts of physical violence” at the Capitol on Jan. 6. Trump pleaded not guilty in Smith’s Jan. 6 case and denied after the attack that he incited his supporters, calling his remarks at a rally that day “totally appropriate.”
特朗普后来将1月6日的被告称为“人质”，并在重返办公室后对他们进行了大规模赦免。特朗普政府去年发起了一项所谓的“大阴谋”调查，审查联邦执法官员自2016年以来的行为，这已超出了大多数联邦犯罪通常的五年诉讼时效。特朗普政府还清洗了参与过往特朗普调查的联邦调查局和司法部官员。现任和前任官员的辩护律师上周告知法院，司法部官员似乎有意调查2022年8月联邦调查局搜查特朗普位于佛罗里达州海湖庄园的情况，当时特工发现了机密文件，而这些文件正是后来被撤销的特朗普案件之一的核心。
Trump later described Jan. 6 defendants as “hostages” and gave them mass clemency upon his return to office. The Trump administration last year launched a so-called grand conspiracy investigation looking at actions taken by federal law enforcement officials dating back to 2016, which would fall outside the typical five-year statute of limitations for most federal crimes. The Trump administration also has purged FBI and Justice Department officials involved in past Trump investigations. Defense attorneys for current and former officials informed a court last week that DOJ officials appear interested in probing the circumstances of an August 2022 FBI search of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, during which agents found classified documents that were at the heart of one of the since-dismissed Trump cases.
曾在罗纳德·里根总统任期内担任联邦检察官的乔·迪热诺瓦一直负责领导这项“大阴谋”调查，直到本月离开司法部。他告诉美国全国广播公司新闻频道，他在任职的最后几天里“越界了”。今年早些时候，史密斯在首次向国会作证时告诉众议院司法委员会，他不会被恐吓，并预测特朗普政府会试图对他发起刑事诉讼。几个月后，特朗普在国会山的一位盟友，众议员俄亥俄州共和党人吉姆·乔丹要求特朗普政府调查乔丹的指控，即史密斯在国会作证时“似乎”作出了虚假陈述。
Joe diGenova, who was a federal prosecutor during Ronald Reagan’s presidency, headed up the “grand conspiracy” investigation until he left the Justice Department this month. He told NBC News that “lanes got crossed” in his final days. In his first public testimony before Congress earlier this year, Smith told the House Judiciary Committee that he would not be intimidated and predicted that the Trump administration would attempt to launch a criminal case against him. Months later, one of Trump’s allies on Capitol Hill, Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, asked the Trump administration to investigate Jordan’s assertion that Smith “seemingly” made false statements in congressional testimony.
史密斯的律师表示，他提供了“真实、切题的答复”，并称乔丹的移交请求“反映出一种令人不寒而栗的急切心态，即通过攻击一位恪尽职守、无党派的公职人员来将司法系统武器化，而这位公职人员始终遵循事实和法律，忠诚而无畏地履行职责。”前联邦检察官告诉NBC新闻，司法部很难对史密斯提起伪证诉讼。预计史密斯不会讨论机密文件调查，因为特朗普任命的美国地区法官艾琳·坎农下令，其作为特别检察官报告中的那部分内容不得公开。司法部采取的立场是，回答有关该调查的问题将违反坎农的命令。
Smith’s lawyers said he provided “truthful, responsive answers” and that Jordan’s referral “reflects a chilling eagerness to weaponize the justice system by attacking a career, nonpartisan public servant who faithfully and fearlessly performed his duties by following the facts and the law.”Former federal prosecutors have told NBC News that the Justice Department would have a tough time bringing a perjury case against Smith. Smith is not expected to discuss the classified documents investigation because Trump-appointed U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon ordered that that portion of his report as special counsel cannot be released. The Justice Department has taken the position that answering questions about that investigation would violate Cannon’s order.