Hours after being charged with 34 felony counts in a New York court, former President Donald Trump railed against the multiple investigations he’s facing — and repeated a bizarre claim that special counsel Jack Smith is using a fake name.

John L. “Jack” Smith, who grew up near Syracuse and graduated from Liverpool High School in 1987, was appointed by U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland as a special counsel to investigate Trump over classified documents found at Mar-a-Lago and parts of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.

Trump called Smith a “lunatic” during a speech at Mar-a-Lago on Tuesday and suggested Smith isn’t his real name or is an alias.

“This lunatic special prosecutor named Jack Smith – I wonder what it was prior to the change,” Trump said as some audience members laughed.

Trump similarly called Smith a “mad dog psycho” on Truth Social earlier this year, and has repeatedly asked “What did his name used to be?” on the social media platform. In February, Trump also claimed “Jack Smith(?)” and his wife, family and friends, without substantiation, are “massive Trump Hater(s).”

Trump has provided no evidence to suggest Smith changed his name.

Smith is identified in his high school yearbook as Jack Smith, playing for Liverpool’s varsity football and baseball teams. He grew up in Clay before going on to SUNY Oneonta and eventually getting his law degree from Harvard Law School.

Smith is married to Katy Chevigny, a documentary filmmaker whose credits include 2007′s “Election Day” (about voters in the 2004 election) and 2004′s “Deadline” (about Illinois Gov. George Ryan’s decision about the fate of death row prisoners). The couple has a daughter, and has been living in the Netherlands since 2018, when Smith was appointed to The Hague as chief prosecutor for the special court tasked with investigating international war crimes.

Smith has three decades of experience as a prosecutor, starting as an assistant district attorney in New York City, working in the sex crimes and violent crimes offices. His career also included a variety of roles at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York, as an assistant U.S. Attorney in Tennessee, and as chief of the public integrity section for the U.S. Department of Justice, overseeing several corruption cases, including several investigations of members of Congress.

Smith told the Associated Press in 2010 that he believes his job as a prosecutor served people like his parents and the values they instilled in him while he was raised in Central New York.

“They pay their taxes, follow the rules and they expect their public officials to do the same,” Smith told the AP.

Trump used his speech Tuesday night at his estate in Florida to profess innocence and accuse the multiple investigations he faces as being politically motivated. The former president was arraigned in Manhattan earlier Tuesday on 34 felony counts related to hush money payments during his 2016 presidential campaign; he pleaded not guilty and was released.

Trump, the only U.S. president to be impeached twice and the first former commander in chief to face criminal charges, also criticized Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and the judge overseeing the case — plus their families. His speech at Mar-a-Lago also referenced an investigation into a phone call asking Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to “find 11,780 votes” in the 2020 election and accused Smith of a double standard after classified information was also found at President Joe Biden’s offices.

“This is where we are as a nation,” Trump said. “Who would have thought? They can’t beat us at the ballot box, so they try and beat us through the law.”