‘My Hero’ Jack Smith Gets Rock-Star Welcome at Anti-Trump Concert With Springsteen and Foo Fighters

Special Counsel Jack Smith, who has testified twice before Congress about his prosecutions of President Trump, is letting his clothing express his implacable opposition to the 47th president.Mr. Smith was spotted on Saturday, beer in hand, at a “Power to the People” concert in Maryland. The concert bills itself as a “celebration of peace, love, music, and community action.” It aims to “shape our country and our planet on, and beyond, Election Day” and lauds the “power everyday human beings have when they come together.”The special counsel, who sought to convict Mr. Trump twice — for his role in the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot and over the storage of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago — wore a black-and-white T-shirt promoting singer Bruce Springsteen’s “Land of Hope and Dreams” tour. Mr. Springsteen was the guest of honor at the “Power to the People” concert. Across Mr. Smith’s shirt was printed “No Kings,” which has become a rallying cry of the opposition to Mr. Trump.The president picked up on Mr. Smith’s sartorial choice in a Truth Social post, reposting an image of the special counsel and thundering, “Deranged Jack Smith is a Crooked Prosecutor!” The president has repeatedly called for Mr. Smith to be jailed. The communications director for the White House, Steven Cheung, declared that “Jack Smith is a scumbag who was the partisan attack rat for Democrats who weaponized the justice system against President Trump for political purposes.” One X user who posted a picture of Mr. Smith reported that “people were high-fiving him and taking selfies” with the special counsel, who faces a criminal referral to the Department of Justice from Congressman Jim Jordan for allegedly lying to Congress about his investigation of Mr. Trump. That probe, which surveilled telephone metadata of Republican lawmakers, was codenamed “Operation Arctic Frost.”Mr. Smith got a shoutout from the stage on Saturday when the lead singer of the Foo Fighters, Dave Grohl, dedicated the band’s performance of “My Hero” at the festival to “my new friend, Jack.”Mr. Grohl performed in a T-shirt bearing the logo of the Iowa Hawkeyes. That appeared to be a reference to a contentious colloquy during Mr. Smith’s hearing, when Senator Eric Schmitt accused him of attending an Atlanta Hawks game as part of a conclave with the district attorney of Fulton County, Fani Willis.That allegation apparently turned on a misunderstanding — on the date that the lawmaker alleged Mr. Smith was at Atlanta, he was actually in Maryland watching the University of Maryland Terrapins play the Iowa Hawkeyes. The game featured then-WNBA star Caitlin Clark.Mr. Schmitt, who is garnering buzz as a possible running mate in 2028 for Vice President J.D. Vance, called Mr. Smith a “dirt bag” and alleged that he perjured himself.Mr. Springsteen’s performance on Sunday featured a speech in which he declared that “federal troops brought death and terror to the streets of Minneapolis.” He sang his song “Streets of Minneapolis,” which was written in January after the killing of anti-ICE protesters by ICE agents.A White House spokeswoman responded to the song at the time by explaining that the “Trump Administration is focused on encouraging state and local Democrats to work with federal law enforcement officers on removing dangerous criminal illegal aliens from their communities—not random songs with irrelevant opinions and inaccurate information.”The song includes the lyrics: “a city aflame fought fire and ice / ’Neath an occupier’s boots / King Trump’s private army from the DHS / Guns belted to their coats / Came to Minneapolis to enforce the law / Or so their story goes.”Mr. Springsteen is so close to President Obama that the two collaborated on a 10-episode podcast series for Spotify. When Mr. Springsteen was honored at the Kennedy Center in 2009, Mr. Obama quipped, “I’m the President, but he’s the Boss,” an allusion to the singer’s nickname.The “No Kings” website contends that the “president thinks his rule is absolute. But in America, we don’t have kings — and we won’t back down against chaos, corruption, and cruelty.” Another performer at the “Power to the People” festival, Public Enemy frontman Chuck D, bellowed from the stage, “Free Palestine, free Haiti, and please free a closed mind. F— Donald Trump.”

‘My Hero’ Jack Smith Gets Rock-Star Welcome at Anti-Trump Concert With Springsteen and Foo Fighters

‘My Hero’ Jack Smith Gets Rock-Star Welcome at Anti-Trump Concert With Springsteen and Foo Fighters

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