Trump calls Jack Smith 'sick puppy,' says Michigan court win leaves Colorado a global embarrassment

Former President Donald Trump is applauding the Michigan Supreme Court for ruling he belongs on the 2024 presidential ballot, telling Just the News that Wednesday's decision leaves Colorado's highest court as a lone outlier and an "embarrassment all over the world' for trying to keep voters from casting ballots for him.

"We just had the big win in Michigan today. And that was a good one," Trump said in an exclusive interview to air Wednesday night on the "Just the News, No Noise" television show on Real America's Voice. Trump's comments came just hours after Michigan's Supreme Court declined on procedural grounds to review an appellate court's ruling that dismissed lawsuits trying to disqualify the 45th president from running again in 2024 based on the events of Jan. 6, 2021.

The Michigan ruling aligned with earlier decisions in Minnesota and New Hampshire, leaving Colorado's 4-3 decision to disqualify him from the state's primary ballot as a lone outlier likely to head to the Supreme Court of the United States.

Trump said the Michigan ruling was "very expected" but that it still carried global import after the decision last week in Colorado.

"Nobody can understand why they did that. I guess maybe they did it for publicity. Maybe they did it for the very liberal radical left governor. Maybe they did it for some other reason," he said of the Colorado decision. "I don't know. Nobody really understands it. But it just is an embarrassment all over the world where they see this. I think it's very bad for Colorado, very, very bad for Colorado."

The 45th president, leading handily in the GOP primary polls in his quest to become the nation's 47th president, also weighed in on another legal matter affecting his 2024 electoral prospects: Special Counsel Jack Smith's indictment against Trump over the events of Jan. 6.

Earlier in the day, Smith's office filed a motion asking a federal judge to prevent Trump from introducing evidence at his trial in Washington D.C. concerning alleged selective prosecution and security failures that occurred at the Capitol. Trump has tried "to inject into this case partisan political attacks and irrelevant and prejudicial issues that have no place in a jury trial," prosecutors argued in the court filing.

Specifically, Smith's team is seeking to ban Trump from introducing evidence that Capitol Police and Washington D.C. officials engaged in security and intelligence failures that allowed the riot to unfold, even though Congress has introduced such evidence and testimony affirming those failures. 

"Throughout this litigation, and in his public comments, the defendant has sought to blame others for the attack on the Capitol for which he is responsible, including law enforcement, military forces, unidentified secret agents, and foreign influence," the prosecutors' filing said. "The defendant should be precluded from introducing within the courtroom the disinformation he has propagated outside of it."

Trump lambasted the filing, telling Just the News it was an effort to prevent him from showing the jury evidence that could prove his innocence. He suggested Smith was trying to protect Democrats, including former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser, whose offices he said rejected the Trump administration's offer to send National Guard troops to the Capitol ahead of Jan,. 6  

"Now, can you believe this? He tried to defend Nancy Pelosi and the mayor of DC," Trump said of Smith. "But he tried to defend Nancy Pelosi who did not do the job. We offered them as you know, 10,000 troops or National Guard whatever they want to do before the event because I knew it was going to be a very big event. And it wasn't my event, I went and showed up and made a speech. We offered 10,000 people and more if necessary. And if they use 500 people, if they use 200 people, January 6 wouldn't have been January 6."

Just the News reported last year that internal Capitol Police memos showed the Pentagon first raised the possibility of sending National Guard troops to the U.S. Capitol four days before the Jan. 6 riots, setting in motion a series of rejections by Capitol Police and Democrats that left Congress vulnerable as threats of violence were rising.

Multiple current and former Pentagon officials, like former chief of staff Kash Patel, have said that Trump authorized up to 10,000 Guard troops to be available but never ordered them to the Capitol because local officials and Pelosi's staff rejected the help until the violence started. 

The memos also show Bowser wrote a Jan. 5, 2021 letter making clear "the District of Columbia is not requesting other federal law enforcement personnel and discourages any additional deployment without immediate notification to and consultation with MPD, if such plans are underway."

Trump noted Smith has been reversed on earlier cases and recently lost a bid to get the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene early in the Trump case. "He loses because he goes too far. He's a sick puppy," Trump said of the prosecutor.