Stephen A. Smith goes nuclear on Democrats after ‘finding something else that they have lied about’

Stephen A. Smith is furious with Democrats after a report suggested that they’ve lied about the role of federal agents in the January 6 riot. 

Smith is largely known for sports commentary on ESPN’s First Take and recently was rumored to have inked an extension with the network in the range of six years and $120 million. 

However, he often goes outside the world of sports on The Stephen A. Smith Show, which is independent from the network, and has also appeared on Sean Hannity’s show to talk about current events. 

While typically defined as a liberal, Smith has recently criticized Joe Biden for pardoning his son Hunter and went on the attack about the left again after a Department of Justice report came out about the FBI’s role in the events at the Capitol. 

‘My big issue is that I’m really, really sick and tired of every time I turn around. Finding something else that the Democrats have lied about or downplayed or misrepresented along the way,’ he said in response to the report and to the Democrat Party’s attitude towards the public in general. 

A report from the Inspector General’s office said there was no evidence that there were undercover FBI agents in the crowd or on Capitol Hill. 

But the inspector general revealed that the Department of Justice had 26 confidential human sources working for the FBI in Washington, D.C., during the protests. 

He said that this shows that these reveals prove ‘Donald Trump’s claims when he articulated that the process is rigged. The Democrats are this or that. They’re talking about us, but look at what they do.’ 

He slammed Kamala Harris and Joe Biden for not saying anything about this as they cried about an insurrection in the run-up to the election.  

Smith claimed that it was making it harder and harder to defend liberal values with people like Hannity or Candace Owens or Megyn Kelly. 

‘You know what I’m getting really p****d off about?! I’m getting really ticked off. And every time they open their mouth about something pertaining to y’all, they seem right.’

He went all in on how the Democrats refuse to rise above the very allegations they make against their GOP opponents. 

‘We can argue policies. We can argue politics all day long. But the Democrats worked really, really diligently to make the case that the right had a monopoly on insidious, evil tendencies. Corrupt tendencies. Duplicitous, hypocritical, untruthful tendencies and every time they made those accusations. 

‘We turn around and find out that at least some of them are guilty of the same s***. I don’t know about you, but I’m sick of all of it.’

Confidential human sources work with the FBI to offer them information and insights about the inner workings of organizations threatening the country, such as criminal, terrorist and espionage networks.

Four of the confidential human sources entered the Capitol building, 13 of them entered the restricted area around the Capitol.

The report noted there was a confidential human source who was in contact with the leadership of far-right groups such as the Oath Keepers, and were aware of plans discussed by the Proud Boys.

Vice President JD Vance reacted to the news on social media on Thursday afternoon. 

‘For those keeping score at home, this was labeled a dangerous conspiracy theory months ago,’ he wrote. 

The report stated that none of the confidential sources were authorized to enter the Capitol or break the law, but that four of them did.

‘None of the CHSs who entered the Capitol or a restricted area has been prosecuted to date,’ the report notes.

The report faults the FBI for failing to canvas the information about potential violence to surrounding offices.

‘The FBI therefore should have canvassed its field offices for any relevant CHS information in advance of January 6,’ the report notes.

The report reveals the inspector general’s office reviews more than 500,000 documents and interviewed more than 200 witnesses for their report.

It comes after Trump signaled last week that he intends to use Joe Biden’s pardon of his son Hunter to his own advantage and pardon January 6 defendants.

‘Does the Pardon given by Joe to Hunter include the J-6 Hostages, who have now been imprisoned for years? Such an abuse and miscarriage of Justice!’ Trump wrote, in his first public comment since Biden announced the pardon Sunday.

That came not long after Fox News commentator Charlie Hurt made the linkage.

‘I think he should at least commute the sentences of all of them and pardoned every single one that was obviously just following the person in front of them wandering through the capital,’ he said.

‘Pardon every single one of them. There were some that did more than just that. And I think he should commute their sentences and let them all out! Every single one of them,’ he said.

According to the Justice Department, 140 police officers were assaulted during the attack on the Capitol, including 80 U.S. Capitol Police officers and 60 from DC’s Metropolitan Police Department.

Trump repeatedly floated the idea of the pardons himself during his campaign. His new choice to lead the FBI, Kash Patel, has also taken up the cause of January 6 defendants. He also played ‘Justice for All,’ a rendition of the national anthem as sung by January 6 defendants, at campaign rallies.

More than 1,200 people have been charged on January 6-related charges. Many battled with police officers. Others got charged with interfering with an official proceeding on a day Congress met to certify the electoral votes that made Joe Biden president.

In a TIME Magazine interview released Thursday, Trump said he would pardon some of the rioters who were prosecuted and imprisoned for their actions that day as soon as he took office. 

‘We’re going to look at each individual case, and we’re going to do it very quickly, and it’s going to start in the first hour that I get into office,’ he said. ‘And a vast majority of them should not be in jail.’