Elie Honig: Jim Jordan Considering Prosecuting Jack Smith Over Telling Half-Truths Won’t Get a Conviction

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HONIG: “I do not think there's enough to file a criminal charge here, Wolf, or at least to get a conviction on a criminal charge. You never know who's going to try to charge something. And here's why. It's important to understand there are two separate batches of documents at issue here. The first batch is a set of toll records that Jack Smith obtained by subpoena of House members. And those records simply show what phone number called what phone number, on what date, and for how long they talk. It does not have the substance of any communications. Now, in his testimony, Jack Smith was asked, in those records, did you see the substance of any text messages? And Jack Smith answered truthfully, no, because they would not have the substance of text messages. Separately, there's a second batch of documents that Jack Smith got from the Archives that does show and include some text messages sent to or from members of Congress. But the thing is, Jack Smith was not asked about that second batch.
And so the answer he gave that he did not see the substance of text messages in that first batch was technically true. Maybe it was incomplete, maybe it was a half-truth, as Jim Jordan says, but a half- truth is not perjury. You're not going to get a conviction based on that.”