Special counsel Jack Smith is “toast” after President-elect Donald Trump’s win this week, but the new administration shouldn’t go after Smith for his investigations unless it can be proven that Smith “staged something that wasn’t true,” conservative commentator and best-selling author Bill O’Reilly said on Newsmax on Friday. 

“He’ll be out of there shortly,” O’Reilly said on “Newsline” of Smith, who has been pursuing investigations for months against Trump. “I don’t think if I were anybody in the Trump administration, I’d go after Smith.”

A federal judge on Friday allowed a request from Smith to suspend the deadlines in Trump’s election interference case, in a move after the special counsel started discussions with the Department of Justice about winding down the federal criminal cases against the president-elect, The Hill reported.

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