Jack Smith's lawyers blast Hatch Act probe as ‘imaginary and unfounded’

Former special counsel Jack Smith responded through his lawyers on Tuesday to news that a government watchdog had opened an investigation into his two prosecutions of President Donald Trump, calling the inquiry baseless.Smith’s attorneys at Covington & Burling wrote in a letter obtained by Fox News to the Office of Special Counsel (OSC) that the predicate for its investigation was "imaginary and unfounded" and that Smith followed all the Department of Justice’s rules and principles in his work."Mr. Smith’s actions as Special Counsel were consistent with the decisions of a prosecutor who ha