Trump says he 'won't partake' in special counsel investigation, slams as 'worst politicization of justice' - Fox News

EXCLUSIVE: Former President Donald Trump blasted the Justice Department's assignment of a peculiar counsel to instrumentality implicit investigations related to statesmanlike records and Jan. 6, telling Fox News helium "won’t partake successful it" and calling it "the worst politicization of justness successful our country," portion urging the Republican Party to instrumentality action.

"I person been going done this for six years — for six years I person been going done this, and I americium not going to spell done it anymore," Trump told Fox News Digital successful an exclusive interrogation Friday soon aft the announcement. "And I anticipation the Republicans person the courageousness to combat this."

"I person been proven guiltless for six years connected everything — from fake impeachments to [former peculiar counsel Robert] Mueller who recovered nary collusion, and present I person to bash it more?" Trump said. "It is not acceptable. It is truthful unfair. It is truthful political."

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"I americium not going to partake successful it," Trump told Fox News Digital. "I'm not going to partake successful this."

Trump, who announced his 2024 statesmanlike run connected Tuesday, said it is "not adjacent believable."

"I person ne'er heard of specified a thing. They recovered nothing. I denote and past they name a peculiar prosecutor," helium said. "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."

"I person been proven guiltless for six years connected everything — from fake impeachments to [former peculiar counsel Robert] Mueller who recovered nary collusion, and present I person to bash it more?" erstwhile President Donald Trump said. "It is not acceptable. It is truthful unfair. It is truthful political." (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

He added: "It is not adjacent believable that they’re allowed to bash this. This is the worst politicization of justness successful our country."

Trump, similar galore legislature Republicans, slammed the Justice Department for bias and politicization, pointing to the national probe into President Biden’s son, Hunter Biden. Hunter has been under national investigation since 2018 and the probe is being conducted by Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss, a authoritative appointed by Trump.

"Hunter Biden is simply a transgression galore times implicit and thing happens to him," Trump said. "Joe Biden is simply a transgression galore times implicit — and thing happens to them. 

"It is unfair to the country, to the Republican Party, and I don’t deliberation radical should judge it. I americium not going to judge it," Trump told Fox News Digital. "The Republican Party has to basal up and fight."

Biden has repeatedly denied discussing oregon having immoderate cognition of his son's concern dealings.

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Attorney General Merrick Garland connected Friday appointed erstwhile Justice Department authoritative Jack Smith to the relation of peculiar counsel to analyse the entirety of the transgression probe into the retention of statesmanlike records held astatine Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home.

Smith is simply a erstwhile adjunct U.S. lawyer and main to the DOJ's nationalist integrity section. Since 2018, Smith has been a authoritative with the International Criminal Court tasked with investigating and adjudicating warfare crimes successful Kosovo. 

Attorney General Merrick Garland connected Friday appointed erstwhile Justice Department authoritative Jack Smith to the relation of peculiar counsel. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Smith volition besides oversee the DOJ’s probe into Jan. 6, a elder Justice Department authoritative told Fox News.

FBI agents seized classified records from erstwhile Trump’s location astatine Mar-a-Lago during the agency's unprecedented raid connected Aug. 8, including immoderate marked arsenic apical secret, according to a warrant and spot receipt.

Trump and his ineligible squad person said records held astatine Mar-a-Lago had been declassified erstwhile Trump was successful the White House. The Justice Department argues that Trump unlawfully retained nationalist defence accusation astatine his home.

According to the spot receipt, FBI agents took astir 20 boxes of items from the premises, including 1 acceptable of documents marked arsenic "Various classified/TS/SCI documents," which refers to apical secret/sensitive compartmented information.

Records covered by that authorities classification level could see quality quality and accusation that, if disclosed, could jeopardize relations betwixt the U.S. and different nations, arsenic good arsenic the lives of quality operatives abroad. However, the classification besides encompasses nationalist information accusation related to the regular operations of the president of the U.S. 

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The authorities conducted the hunt successful effect to what it believes to beryllium a usurpation of national laws: 18 USC 793 — Gathering, transmitting oregon losing defence information; 18 USC 2071 — Concealment, removal oregon mutilation; and 18 USC 1519 — Destruction, alteration oregon falsification of records successful Federal investigations. 

The allegation of "gathering, transmitting oregon losing defence information" falls nether the Espionage Act. 

The erstwhile president and his squad proceed to quality the classification and judge the accusation and records to person been declassified. 

Trump told Fox News Digital connected Friday that "every different president took records, and they didn’t bash thing astir it." 

Former President Donald Trump announced his re-election tally successful 2024 past week. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Meanwhile, arsenic for Jan. 6, helium told Fox News that helium "did thing wrong" and lone encouraged supporters to show "peacefully and patriotically." 

"I did thing wrong," helium said.

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A Trump spokesperson said Friday that "this is simply a wholly expected governmental stunt by a feckless, politicized, weaponized Biden Department of Justice."

Trump's presidency was clouded by Special Counsel Robert Mueller's probe into whether helium and his run colluded with Russia to power the 2016 statesmanlike election. 

After astir 2 years, Mueller’s investigation, which concluded successful March 2019, yielded nary grounds of transgression conspiracy oregon coordination betwixt the Trump run and Russian officials during the 2016 statesmanlike election.

Smith, successful a connection Friday, said helium intends "to behaviour the assigned investigations, and immoderate prosecutions that whitethorn effect from them, independently and successful the champion traditions of the Department of Justice." 

"The gait of the investigations volition not intermission oregon emblem nether my watch," Smith said. "I volition workout autarkic judgement and volition determination the investigations guardant expeditiously and thoroughly to immoderate result the facts and the instrumentality dictate."