Matt Whitaker: "I don't have any reason to believe there's enough evidence to indict President Trump." - Fox News

Just days aft former President Donald Trump launched his 3rd bid for the White House, the U.S. Department of Justice ramped up 2 investigations that whitethorn beryllium the top impediments to his combat backmost to Pennsylvania Avenue. 

Veteran authoritative Jack Smith is heading both DOJ investigations arsenic a peculiar counsel, examining Trump’s relation anterior to the Jan. 6 riot and whether helium retained delicate documents astatine his location successful Mar-a-Lago.

"If you're inciting a riot by saying spell peacefully and patriotically to the Capitol, then, you know, we person turned the First Amendment upside down connected its head," erstwhile acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker told Fox News Digital. "I don't spot that portion of the probe being of overmuch interest oregon effect to President Trump."

"This classified papers probe certainly, you know, appears to beryllium a small much serious." 

In effect to the peculiar counsel, Trump is echoing attacks helium made during the Mueller probe from 2017 to 2019, present targeting Smith personally, telling Fox News Digital, "They recovered nothing, and present they instrumentality immoderate feline who hates Trump. This is simply a disgrace and lone happening due to the fact that I americium starring successful each canvass successful some parties."

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Jack Smith was appointed to beryllium peculiar counsel looking into 2 large Trump investigations. (Department of Justice)

"We'll spot if [Jack Smith] tin usage the subject and the traditions of the Department of Justice and, you know, bash his occupation truly supra the governmental fray," said Whitaker. 

While Attorney General Merrick Garland said that the "extraordinary circumstances" of a Trump-Biden rematch escalated the urgency of the DOJ cases, Trump told Fox News Digital helium would "not partake" successful the DOJ probes.

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But Whitaker says that the erstwhile president whitethorn beryllium making a mistake.

"I would urge if [Trump] asked maine that helium should instrumentality an progressive relation successful defending himself," Whitaker said. "The mean national can't exert enforcement privilege, I deliberation the president of the United States and, you know, surely Donald Trump could, and I deliberation that contented needs to beryllium adjudicated. So I deliberation determination is simply a relation for the peculiar master."

Former President Donald Trump speaks during an lawsuit astatine his Mar-a-Lago location connected Nov. 15, 2022, successful Palm Beach, Florida. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

"If I'm sitting successful the shoes of idiosyncratic that needs to indict a case, I privation to I privation to cognize the why, I privation to recognize the motive, recognize who's the unfortunate and what harm has been done."

But Whitaker tells Fox News Digital that helium disagrees with erstwhile Attorney General Bill Barr and believes the DOJ whitethorn not person the smoking weapon to indict the erstwhile president. 

"I don't person immoderate crushed to judge there's capable grounds to indict President Trump. I don't deliberation yet helium gets indicted."

And arsenic the Trump ineligible battles intensify, the Biden medication is inactive struggling to get a grip connected the situation astatine the confederate border. 

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On Monday, 15 states filed a question to widen Title 42 explosions earlier the Dec. 21 deadline arsenic Customs and Border Protection accidental an mean of 2,693 migrants per time are evading apprehension.

Border Patrol cause astatine presumption successful McAllen, Texas (Veronica G. Cardenas//File Photo)

"I don't expect that there's a ineligible justification for Title 42. There's surely a governmental justification," Whitaker said. "This medication desperately wants it to proceed successful spot nary substance what they mightiness accidental successful tribunal filings, due to the fact that it's truly astir the lone instrumentality that they tin use."

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Whitaker besides revealed that helium met with furniture members successful the Biden medication to find solutions but though discussions went nowhere.

"I worked with the president and others successful the furniture and, you know, adjacent the legislators to travel up with a solution that addressed each these issues. I thought we were adjacent successful the meetings that we had, but yet thing got done."

Lacey Christ is simply a Producer with Fox News @ Night. You tin travel her connected Twitter: @lacey_christ1