Radio host Charlamagne Tha God criticized President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice (DOJ) for publishing former special counsel Jack Smith’s report detailing the 2020 election prosecution of President-elect Donald Trump after his November election victory.
The DOJ on Tuesday published volume one of Smith’s report, which focused on the 2020 election investigation, but withheld volume two due to ongoing litigation against Trump’s former co-defendants in the classified documents case. Charlamagne, on “The Breakfast Club,” expressed disinterest in hearing the contents of the reports at this stage, arguing that if there were legitimate grounds for prosecution, Biden should have appointed an attorney general (AG) who would have prosecuted Trump in a timely manner.
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“Boo — I don’t want to hear it. Where was all this energy four years ago? Why didn’t Biden hire an AG that he knew was going to actually go after Donald Trump if there was something really there and prosecute Trump? I don’t want to hear all of this, you know, in hindsight conversation,” Charlamagne said. “Donald Trump is in the White House. It is what it is. Knock it off, guys like Jack Smith — I don’t want to hear it. Boo … It’s way too late. Where was this energy four years ago? I don’t want to hear it.”
Smith wrote in his report that his team stands “fully behind” prosecuting Trump, claiming the president-elect would have been convicted had he not won the election. He explained that he did not charge Trump with insurrection due to the “the litigation risk that would be presented by employing this long-dormant statute.”
He also wrote that there was evidence Trump’s Jan. 6 speech “incited violence,” but said there was not direct evidence of his “subjective intent to cause the full scope of the violence that occurred on January 6.”
United States District Judge Aileen Cannon of the Southern District of Florida allowed the DOJ to proceed with publishing the report when she rejected a request by Trump’s co-defendants to hold it back on Monday. Trump motioned to intervene, but Cannon denied his effort.
Cannon found in July 2024 that Smith’s appointment breached the Appointments Clause of the United States Constitution and granted Trump’s motion to dismiss the classified documents case. Smith resigned from his role on Friday after ending both his federal cases against Trump after the president-elect won.
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