Fox & Friends Immediately Dismiss Jack Smith Report on Trump’s Election Interference: ‘Nothing More Than a Prosecution On Paper’

Fox & Friends were quick to dismiss a just-released report from Special Counsel Jack Smith on President-elect Donald Trump’s alleged election interference investigation.

The Justice Department unveiled the 137-page document early Tuesday, obtained by the New York Times, and offered a detailed look at Trump’s actions following his 2020 loss.

“When it became clear that Trump had lost the election and that lawful means of challenging the election results had failed, he resorted to a series of criminal efforts to retain power,” Smith wrote.

Fox & Friends brought on constitutional law attorney and former federal prosecutor Katie Cherkasky to analyze the news that broke in the wee hours of the morning. Brian Kilmeade immediately framed the report as “not a big deal,” noting, “It’s not news when a prosecutor says he would have got a conviction.”

“This is nothing more than a prosecution on paper,” she replied. “It’s every prosecutor’s dream. You have no rebuttal. You have no cross-examination. You don’t actually have to prove this case. And in fact, nothing in this report is particularly new.”

“Jack Smith had released the indictment, the superseding indictment,” she continued. “All the same facts are there. The American people overwhelmingly voted for President Trump, knowing all of what he claims would have sustained this conviction on these unprecedented charges. So, quite frankly, this is just a partizan effort at lawfare, yet again couched in legal jargon.”

Lawrence Jones noted something in the report that caught his attention, saying, “When [Jack Smith] talks about when the president said peacefully and patriotically protest, but he says the president said ‘fight, fight, fight’ ten times after that, he hinged it on ‘fight, fight, fight.’ My mind goes to the most iconic moment of the president, which is when he was attempted to be assassinated and he said, ‘Fight, fight, fight.’ So how does he use that as justification?”

“Well, there is obviously no smoking gun evidence here,” Cherkasky quickly agreed. “And as you pointed out, all of these supposed pieces of evidence are subject to interpretation, which is exactly the point of our adversarial system. Exactly the point of actually confronting the prosecution’s evidence with the rebuttal, such as what you just mentioned.”

“So, again, the underlying issue with proving this case was always going to be to prove the criminal intent of Donald Trump. And that hasn’t been established by this report. And I don’t think it would have been established in a courtroom with any sort of due process,” she concluded.  “But certainly, I think this is just a shame that this was released. I think that is just pure lawfare and serves absolutely no purpose but to undermine Americans’ confidence in the justice system.”

Following the release of the report,  Trump lashed out at outgoing Special Counsel Jack Smith on Truth Social:

Deranged Jack Smith was unable to successfully prosecute the Political Opponent of his “boss,” Crooked Joe Biden, so he ends up writing yet another “Report” based on information that the Unselect Committee of Political Hacks and Thugs ILLEGALLY DESTROYED AND DELETED, because it showed how totally innocent I was, and how completely guilty Nancy Pelosi, and others, were. Jack is a lamebrain prosecutor who was unable to get his case tried before the Election, which I won in a landslide. THE VOTERS HAVE SPOKEN!!!

Watch above via Fox News.