"Go f*ck yourself": Jack Smith hearing rocked by angry altercation [View all]

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"Go f*ck yourself": Jack Smith hearing rocked by angry altercation

Andrew Solender

https://www.axios.com/2026/01/22/jack-smith-hearing-fanone-raiklin-jan-6-fight

A House hearing with former Trump special counsel Jack Smith was disrupted Thursday when a former police officer who defended the Capitol on Jan. 6 confronted a vocal 2020 election conspiracy theorist.

Why it matters: Such heated altercations are becoming more and more common in congressional hearings, though rarely to this degree of animus and near physicality.

* Former D.C. Metropolitan Police officer Michael Fanone repeatedly told far-right operative Ivan Raiklin "go f*ck yourself" at the hearing, where the two were both in attendance as audience members.

* "You're a traitor to this f*cking country," Fanone also told Raiklin, getting close enough that two of his former law enforcement colleagues had to restrain him.

Video:

Here’s a clearer video of the interaction between Raiklin and Fanone. Stay til the end when members applaud Fanone and ask that Raiklin be reined in.

— Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.com) 2026-01-22T21:39:36.078Z