Watch: Stephen A. Smith Gushes About ‘Positively Brilliant’ Trump Who Keeps Foiling Democrats at Every Turn

Conservative News DailyDecember 5, 2025
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The article discusses President Donald Trump’s pardon of Democratic Representative Henry cuellar of Texas, who had been charged with bribery, money laundering, and conspiracy during the Biden administration. Many viewed the charges as politically motivated,especially since Cuellar is a Democrat known for his moderate stance on border issues,which put him at odds with the more progressive wing of his party. Trump praised Cuellar for speaking out against the Biden administration’s border policies and framed the pardon as a move against political weaponization by the Justice Department.

stephen A. Smith,an ESPN personality,called Trump’s decision “brilliant” and “shrewd,” noting that by pardoning a Democrat who opposes the far-left agenda,Trump gave the Democratic Party a lesson in political strategy,effectively encouraging a move toward the center. Cuellar expressed gratitude for the pardon, while reactions among Democrats were mixed-some officeholders supported it, but many critics remained skeptical or hostile, viewing the pardon as part of corrupt bipartisan politics.

The article suggests that the pardon highlights ongoing political divisions within the Democratic Party, especially over immigration, and underscores Trump’s ability to capitalize on those rifts for political gain.

Say what you will about Stephen A. Smith, but at least the man concedes to reality when reality has a W.

On his Thursday podcast, Smith — the ESPN personality who many less-insane Democrats somehow think is an outsider chance for president in 2028, because their party isn’t nuts enough already — acknowledged the brilliant optics of President Donald Trump’s pardon of Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar of Texas.

Cuellar and his wife had been charged with bribery, money laundering, and conspiracy under the Biden administration, and many felt that the motives were political; while Cuellar has a D after his name, he occasionally talks sense, particularly on the border. Thus, sidelining him was a leftist prerogative, once upon a time.

“For years, the Biden Administration weaponized the Justice System against their Political Opponents, and anyone who disagreed with them. One of the clearest examples of this was when Crooked Joe used the FBI and DOJ to ‘take out’ a member of his own Party after Highly Respected Congressman Henry Cuellar bravely spoke out against Open Borders, and the Biden Border ‘Catastrophe,’” Trump said Thursday on .

“Henry, I don’t know you, but you can sleep well tonight — Your nightmare is finally over!”

Cuellar, needless to say, was happy:

Democrats, oddly — aside from those in elective office, including House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries — were not, because of course, to pardon you must be president, and to be pardoned by this president, you must be bad, at least in their eyes:

Smith, how-EV-ah, called this what it was: genius.

“At some point in time, we just have to give the man credit. He’s shrewd as hell!” Smith said during his podcast Thursday.

“He really is. I mean, he is giving the Democratic Party lessons! Lessons! I mean, school is in session on how to manipulate minds and coax folks into thinking along the lines of his way of thinking.”

“You can’t sit up there and talk about how everything is partisan when the man sits up there and lets you off the hook and you on the opposite party,” he continued.

“Now granted, that same Representative Cuellar was the same guy that spoke out against the Biden administration when it came to immigration issues and our borders. So again, that falls in line with Trump, and we get that part. But he’s still a Democrat.”

This, Smith said, was a lesson for the Democratic Party:

“Get away from the far left. Move towards the center,” Smith said. “And Trump beat them to it. He beat them to it. That’s what he’s doing! That’s what he’s doing! It’s brilliant! Absolutely, positively brilliant politics! Nothing compares!”

While there’s more than a touch of sarcasm here, it’s not necessarily inaccurate. The fact that the most conservative, border-conscious Democrat was charged with a crime under the Biden administration doesn’t feel like a coincidence, likely because it wasn’t. Even if it was, the zeal and relish with which the prosecution was pursued definitely make it feel non-accidental.

And yet, aside from Jeffries saying that “I don’t know why the president decided to do this, [but] I think the outcome was exactly the right outcome,” the lack of Democratic welcome for Trump pardoning a Democrat is telling. Why? Not because they hate dirty money in politics; if that were the case, they would have chased Nancy Pelosi out of the District of Columbia eons ago. No, they don’t like the fact that Cuellar believes illegal immigration is illegal and American borders should be treated as such.

These are the common-sense things that got Donald Trump elected. Maybe it’s not too crazy to espy Stephen A. Smith making a run, after all.




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