By Brooke Singman
Fox News
November 19, 2022
FIRST ON FOX: LAS VEGAS, NEVADA — Former Vice President Mike Pence called the Justice Department’s appointment of a special counsel to investigate former President Trump “very troubling,” while telling Fox News Digital that his level of cooperation with that investigation would be up to his legal team.
Attorney General Merrick Garland on Friday appointed former Justice Department official Jack Smith to the role of special counsel to investigate the entirety of the criminal probe into the retention of presidential records held at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home. Smith will also oversee the DOJ’s investigation into the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021.
During a sit-down interview with Fox News Digital on the sidelines of the Republican Jewish Coalition annual leadership conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, Pence criticized the Justice Department for its “politicization”— especially with regard to Trump.