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Five years after the most brutal attack on our Capitol since 1812, America will FINALLY know Jack ...

There was some positive news Monday night. Unfortunately, you had to really lean in to hear it: Special Counsel Jack Smith will testify publicly Jan. 22 before the House Judiciary Committee.

For the next nine days, it is important that pressure be brought to bear that these proceedings are made available everywhere, and treated with the historic significance they deserve.

Our country was violently attacked just over five years ago, and America deserves to finally hear the evidence our government had obtained against the traitor who perpetrated this homegrown terror, Donald J. Trump.

Smith, of course, is the man who was belatedly tasked with leading the investigations into Trump and his repeated attacks on America culminating with the worst assault on our Capitol since 1812 when he tried to violently overthrow the government of the United States of America on Jan. 6, 2021.

Smith testified privately in front of this committee last month, and I positively went off on these blasted Republicans who were still trying to cover for their orange idol’s assault on our country that WE ALL WATCHED ON TV.

I have argued strenuously for years, that Trump should be in jail for what’s left of his miserable life for that high crime, and until he is, I will never shut up about it.

I have typed until I am blue in the face about Attorney General Merrick Garland’s criminal disregard for this attack, and just last week, made the case that:

“The attack on January 6, 2021, is an open wound for millions of Americans that will never heal until the reprehensible, anti-American terrorist behind that violent attempted coup is brought to justice and jailed.”

Every single day, tens of millions of us are being gaslighted as this unhinged, lying maniac lawlessly harrumphs around what’s left of our White House filling his bottomless pockets with our money, while taking a blowtorch to our human rights, and our 249-year-old Democracy.

This is doing invaluable harm to our mental health, as we helplessly watch the arsonist stoke yet more raging fires with his never-ending supply of gasoline. This, in itself, is an underreported story.

Why just this week, a video of an innocent woman, Renee Good, is circling the globe in which Good tells one of Trump’s masked gunmen, “I’m not mad at you” and drives off just seconds before that masked gunman shoots her repeatedly in the head, calls her a “fucking bitch” for good measure, and then casually walks away to rejoin his pack of blood-thirsty goons, who are littering our streets.

What the hell is anybody with even a shred of compassion and decency supposed to do with this?

Lanny Breuer, the attorney representing Smith, said in a statement Monday night that his client welcomes the opportunity to defend his work on behalf of America:

“Jack has been clear for months he is ready and willing to answer questions in a public hearing about his investigations into President Trump’s alleged unlawful efforts to overturn the 2020 election and his mishandling of classified documents,” Breuer said.

In his private hearing it was leaked that Smith possessed “powerful evidence” and had “developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt” that the convicted felon, Trump, conspired to overturn the 2020 election.

Again, “proof beyond a reasonable doubt” we were never allowed to hear in a criminal trial of Trump because of Garland’s disgusting, and maybe even complicit, slow roll.

The Ohio congressman and screaming monkey, Republican Jim Jordan, will chair the Jan. 22 hearings, so you can expect he will be oiling up his arm until then, so he can fling his seemingly endless supply of feces across the proceedings.

I will also expect the Democrats’ Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, Rep. Jamie Raskin, to deftly counter Jordan, and bring plenty of heft and nothing but the facts to this historic hearing.

Raskin is a patriot.

Checking on most of my likely sources this morning, this hearing is so far getting very little attention. I suppose this isn’t surprising given the tsunami of terror that is being directed at us from the most anti-American, and anti-humane administration (regime) in U.S. history.

I, for one, will be banging the drum about this hearing for the next nine days because if nothing else the world needs to be reminded what the traitor, Trump, did to the country he regularly abuses and relentlessly hates.

They need to be reminded of the most destructive Big Lie ever told by a despicable man, who has told tens of thousands of lies since bursting on the political scene with all the subtlety of a Molotov cocktail just over a decade ago.

I’d argue this is must-see history, because while the truly good people of America endure this brutal assault on our country, as well as our physical and mental health, we can take satisfaction for now in knowing we inhabit the moral high ground.

We are standing up for what is good and right, and that is no small thing. Just ask any German who didn't go along with the Nazis.

There needs to be a loud record of the hell we are enduring and have endured, because when freedom rings again — and by God it will — everything must be done to finally bring these attackers to justice.

On January 22nd, we will finally hear “powerful evidence” linking Trump to his attacks.

Mark your calendars.

(D. Earl Stephens is the author of “Toxic Tales: A Caustic Collection of Donald J. Trump’s Very Important Letters” and finished up a 30-year career in journalism as the Managing Editor of Stars and Stripes. You can find all his work here.)

(That’s an AP photo of Jack Smith entering a closed House Judiciary Committee hearing Dec. 17, 2025, to testify on Donald Trump’s attack on America, January 6, 2021.)