Fox News Host Calls Trump Indictment ‘Political War Crimes,’ Compares It to ‘Nuclear Bomb’

On Tuesday, minutes after Donald Trump announced on Truth Social that he was to be indicted for a third time, Fox News took on the role of spin room on behalf of the former president.

As panelists on The Five reacted to the announcement, Jesse Watters gave a gut check analysis that compared the criminal cases against the former president to… “15 dozen” atomic bombs.

“Not everyone believes Jan. 6 was Hiroshima!” Watters declared on camera, “Not everybody believes that!”

“No one believes that,” his co-host Jessica Tarlov countered.

A grand jury empaneled by Special Counsel Jack Smith indicted Trump regarding his role in efforts to overturn the 2020 election and the Jan. 6 Capitol attack. The former president was charged with four criminal counts: conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction of and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding, and conspiracy against rights.

Smith has already charged Trump in connection with his separate investigation of the former president’s unlawful hoarding of classified documents.

In response to the new charges, the Trump campaign released a statement calling Smith’s investigation “election interference.”

“The lawlessness of these persecutions of President Trump and his supporters is reminiscent of Nazi Germany in the 1930s, the former Soviet Union, and other authoritarian, dictatorial regimes,” the campaign wrote.

More from Rolling Stone

• DeSantis Finally Admits Trump's Election Fraud Claims Are BS 

• Jack Smith Has an Indictment. Trump Has a Massive Plan for Revenge

• Trump's Own Lawyer Admits He Directed Illegal Scheme to Stop Electoral Count

Best of Rolling Stone

• The Useful Idiots New Guide to the Most Stoned Moments of the 2020 Presidential Campaign

• Anatomy of a Fake News Scandal

• The Radical Crusade of Mike Pence

Click here to read the full article.