Politics

TRUMP ON SMITH: 'I Think He Feels Like He's Losing Politically'

posted by Hannity Staff - 1.04.24

During a recent exclusive interview with Breitbart News, former President and 2024 GOP frontrunner Donald Trump shared his thoughts on special counsel Jack Smith; “I think he [Smith] feels like he’s losing politically because I’m leading everybody by a lot,” Trump said.

“I think I’d be leading anyway, but I wouldn’t be leading by this much. People are really angry about the weaponization, about a political opponent, about a really dumb person taking the Justice Department [DOJ] — it’s really easy to figure that out because so many other countries do it, but they’re all third-world countries, and they are banana republics — but people are angry about it. They don’t like seeing where someone would use the FBI, the DOJ, and everything to go after a political opponent. This is the most weaponized country. We’re not respected. He [Democrat President Joe Biden] is not respected. Our country is not respected. What this guy has done to this country in three years is unbelievable. You know, I have a saying I make in a lot of the speeches where I say if you add up the ten worst presidents in the history of our country — all of them, the ten worst, you could add them up cumulatively — they haven’t done the damage that Joe Biden has done to our country.

From Breitbart News:

Trump on Thursday formally moved to ask the court to hold Smith in contempt because he continues to make filings despite a stay on proceedings in the January 6 case in federal court in Washington, DC. The case, despite a looming trial date in early March, has been stayed as the appeals process for Trump’s immunity argument plays out. Trump argues he is immune from prosecution because the actions he took in the lead-up to January 6, 2021, in challenging the election results were official actions he took as the then-president of the United States.

Trump told Breitbart News that recent filings Smith has made before the court asking the court to prevent Trump from speaking about then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s refusal to accept the deployment of troops on January 6, 2021 — one of Trump’s key defenses about that day as Pelosi did refuse his offer to send thousands of troops to the Capitol — is a sign that Smith knows he is losing the war for public opinion on this front.

“I think the filing he made this weekend is absolutely ridiculous,” Trump said in the interview on December 28. “It’s the craziest thing I’ve ever seen. I can’t speak about Nancy Pelosi turning down 10,000 troops? I can’t speak about him? He doesn’t want me to speak about anything. So, they’re allowed to speak, and they’re allowed to indict me, and they’re allowed to have news conferences, but I’m not allowed to defend myself? Which must mean he thinks I’m very effectively defending myself.”

More over at Breitbart News:

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