Former Special Counsel Jack Smith spoke out against President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice in a rare interview since his resignation in January.

Smith, whose investigations led to two indictments against Trump, maintained in comments released Tuesday that politics did not play a role in bringing criminal charges — while criticizing how the DOJ has steered several high-profile cases as the president has threatened retribution against his perceived political enemies.

“The idea that politics would play a role in big cases like this, it’s absolutely ludicrous and it’s totally contrary to my experience as a prosecutor,” Smith said in an interview with former federal prosecutor Andrew Weissmann at the University College London.

Smith led a team of prosecutors who separately probed

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