White House rips ‘scumbag’ ex-special counsel Jack Smith after he

WASHINGTON — The White House ripped former special counsel Jack Smith as a “partisan attack rat” Monday after he was photographed and videoed wearing a “No Kings” T-shirt at a Maryland concert over the weekend.

“Jack Smith is a scumbag who was the partisan attack rat for Democrats who weaponized the justice system against President Trump for political purposes,” White House communications director Steven Cheung said on X in response to the images of Smith, who brought two criminal cases against the commander in chief ahead of the 2024 election.

“Don’t think they won’t go after innocent Americans again if they get their way,” added Cheung.

Images showed Smith, 57, scooting to his seat at the Merriweather Post Pavilion concert venue in Columbia, Md. while nursing a beer and wearing a Bruce Springsteen and the E-Street Band shirt.

Smith testified last week before the Senate Judiciary Committee about the “Arctic Frost” FBI probe that led to his indictment of Trump for trying to reverse the 2020 election results and hoarding national security papers at Mar-a-Lago.

“I am not a politician and I have no partisan loyalty,” the longtime prosecutor said in his opening remarks to the panel. “My career has been dedicated to serving our country by upholding the rule of law and the core principles upon which our country was founded.”

Saturday’s “Power to the People” show featured Springsteen, the Foo Fighters, Public Enemy, Dave Matthews, and Joan Baez among other artists.

In May, Springsteen tore into Trump during a lengthy concert at Nationals Park in the nation’s capital, calling the president “racist,” “incompetent” and “treasonous.”

Smith’s DC-based indictment of Trump was withdrawn following the Republican’s victory in the 2024 presidential election over then-Vice President Kamala Harris.

The classified document case had earlier been thrown out by a South Florida federal judge who ruled that Smith had been unlawfully appointed by then-Attorney General Merrick Garland in November 2022, shortly after Trump announced his third consecutive run for president.

Republicans in Congress who investigated Smith’s approach in both cases accused the former prosecutor of abusing his power, as when his team surreptitiously gained access to lawmakers’ text messages and call logs as part of the “Arctic Frost” probe.

Trump’s White House Government Transparency Task Force released declassified memos and emails Monday that showed the FBI was monitoring future White House chief of staff Susie Wiles’ phone calls.

The trap-and-trace method was just one of several ways the bureau was keeping tabs on the future president’s activities in the lead-up to the classified documents indictment through a probe known as “Plasmic Echo.”