前特别检察官在参议院司法委员会的出席以人身攻击为主，而非新爆料。
The former special counsel’s appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee was marked by personal insults rather than new revelations.
事情始于誓言揭露拜登时代针对唐纳德·特朗普总统的阴谋，却以一场因篮球门票引发的拙劣攻击告终。
It started with a pledge to expose a Biden-era conspiracy to take down President Donald Trump. It ended with a botched attack over basketball tickets.
凭借国会传票权力和友好的司法部支持，共和党议员花了两年时间承诺揭露前特别检察官杰克·史密斯是反特朗普“猎巫行动”的领导者，该行动演变成全面打击共和党建制派的尝试。
Armed with subpoena power in Congress and a friendly Justice Department on their side, Republican lawmakers have spent two years promising to expose former special counsel Jack Smith as the leader of an anti-Trump witch hunt that morphed into a full-blown attempt to take down the Republican establishment.
史密斯周二在参议院司法委员会出席作证——这是他第三次在国会山宣誓作证，第二次公开作证——本应成为共和党在中期选举前提取确凿证据的分水岭时刻。然而，听证会最令人难忘的却是委员会共和党人倾泻而出的侮辱。
Smith’s appearance Tuesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee — his third time testifying under oath on Capitol Hill, the second time in public — was supposed to be a watershed moment for the GOP intent on extracting a smoking gun ahead of the midterm elections. Instead, the hearing was most memorable for the fusillade of insults hurled by the panel’s Republicans.
密苏里州参议员埃里克·施密特试图牵连史密斯参与一项以参加体育赛事为掩护调查特朗普选举干预指控的阴谋，未果后骂他是“卑鄙小人”。路易斯安那州参议员约翰·肯尼迪说这位前检察官让他“想吐”。德克萨斯州参议员泰德·克鲁兹将他比作《悲惨世界》中的“沙威”，称史密斯的调查是“司法部历史上最恶劣的权力滥用”。
Sen. Eric Schmitt of Missouri unsuccessfully sought to implicate Smith in a plot to attend a sporting event as a cover for investigating Trump election interference claims, then called him a “dirtbag.”Sen. John Kennedy of Louisiana said the former prosecutor made him “want to throw up in my mouth.”And Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, comparing him to “Javert from ‘Les Mis,’” said Smith’s probe was “the most egregious abuse of power in the history of the Department of Justice.”