During an episode of The Stephen A. Smith Show this week, Smith unloaded on liberals for trying to use lawfare to beat Donald Trump instead of beating the 2024 GOP presidential nominee on the issues.

“Ladies and gentlemen, this is a disaster… You want Trump gone, beat him… Is it possible it could be perceived that you are going after Trump using lawfare because you can’t beat him. Because you know the issues don’t favor you?” Smith said, citing Ukraine, the border crisis, and rising crime.

 
“To my liberal friends out there, all you’re doing is showing that you’re scared you can’t beat him on the issues and the merits,” the host said. “That’s why he [Trump] keeps saying they can’t beat me at the election, at the polls. This is the only way they can do it.”
“And if you don’t put him in jail, and he still goes from being the presumptive GOP nominee to the official GOP nominee, and he goes to the polls, even though he was going to whine about winning and [the election] being rigged again, you have given more fodder to that argument, which means we’ll never have peace in this country,” he added. “Because tens of millions of people see what extent the other side is willing to go through just to keep him out of office because they can’t beat him on their own merits.”
“And they’re going to say, ‘Hey, you trumped us up against him again,’ and we’ll have no peace when all you gotta do is figure out a way to beat him on the issues,” Smith continued. “But you haven’t been able to do it. You can’t beat him [Trump]… Everything you do shows me you can’t beat him. It’s a … shame. It really, really is. It’s embarrassing. “
Watch the clip above.