'He's trying to defend Nancy Pelosi!' Trump flips out at Jack Smith in new interview

Former President Donald Trump erupted with rage in an interview with John Solomon of the right-wing Real America's Voice on Wednesday, going after special counsel Jack Smith for his latest motion seeking to exclude Trump from submitting conspiracy theories about the January 6 attack or complaints about selective prosecution.

This motion, Trump claimed, signals that "he's trying to defend Nancy Pelosi" — because Trump would like to submit evidence that the January 6 attack was actually the former House speaker's fault, because "we offered them 10,000 troops or National Guard, whatever they wanted."

"Can you imagine, this guy says, we don't want to introduce that. That's a very big part of that," said Trump.

This is a common claim of Trump, and has been repeatedly debunked, including by his own former Secretary of Defense. It also wouldn't be relevant to the underlying case, since Smith is charging Trump with conspiring to overturn the 2020 election, not with inciting the January 6 attack.

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Trump then went on to brag about the crowd size for his "Stop the Steal" rally on the other side of the National Mall from the January 6 attack, saying it was "the largest number of people I've ever spoken to ... nobody ever talks about that." And he attacked Smith as "a deranged human being, unattractive inside and out."

The former president also leveled an attack at the former House January 6 Select Committee, claiming that "They threw out everything, they deleted everything. There's no information, there's nothing left," and they did this to eliminate evidence, he says, "pinpointing that Nancy Pelosi didn't take the troops."

This claim, repeatedly made by Trump, is based on allegations by Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-GA) that the committee didn't preserve depositions and killed lines of investigation into Capitol security. Chairman Bennie Thompson (D-MS) has denied these claims, saying the committee preserved all evidence they were required to by law.