Shortly after the DOJ unveiled a new special counsel to probe the former president, Donald Trump made himself clear via a scathing statement that he will not participate in the “worst politicization of justice in our country.”
“I have been going through this for six years — for six years I have been going through this, and I am not going to go through it anymore,” Trump told Fox News Digital.
“I have been proven innocent for six years on everything — from fake impeachments to [former special counsel Robert] Mueller who found no collusion, and now I have to do it more?” Trump said. “It is not acceptable. It is so unfair. It is so political.”
“I am not going to partake in it,” Trump told Fox News Digital. “I’m not going to partake in this.”
“I have never heard of such a thing. They found nothing. I announce and then they appoint a special prosecutor,” he said. “They found nothing, and now they take some guy who hates Trump. This is a disgrace and only happening because I am leading in every poll in both parties.”
U.S. Attorney General Marrick Garland announced on Friday that he appointed Jack Smith, Hague prosecutor and former DOJ Public Integrity Section Chief, as Special Counsel in the Trump probe on J6 and Mar-a-Lago documents