Ex-special counsel Jack Smith, who has given few interviews before or since resigning from the position, said it’s “absolutely ludicrous” to suggest his investigations of President Trump were driven by partisan politics in a rare interview.

The former federal prosecutor spoke recently at a public forum at the University College of London’s Global Centre for Democratic Constitutionalism with Andrew Weissmann , also a former federal prosecutor as well as a frequent legal analyst on MSNBC.

Smith said he only followed the facts in probes of Trump’s improper taking of classified documents at the end of his first term and the effort to overturn his loss in the 2020 election that led to the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.

“The idea that politics would play a role in big cases like this, it

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