ESPN sports analyst Stephen A. Smith veered into the political world over the weekend, going on a rant directed at Democrats' propensity for lying and suggesting a recent DOJ report lends credence to theories that the FBI's confidential sources played a role in the January 6th protest.

Smith kicked off his fiery commentary during an episode of "The Stephen A. Smith Show" on Saturday by reading a report regarding the Justice Department inspector general’s office investigation into the matter. The report showed there were "more than two dozen" confidential human sources (CHSs) in the crowd outside the Capitol on that day.

As RedState's Ward Clark summarized, three of those CHSs were directly assigned by the FBI, while the remaining had shown up of their own volition. The IG report indicates none of those assigned was authorized or directed by the bureau to "break the law" or "encourage others to commit illegal acts."

“My big issue is that I’m really, really sick and tired of every time I turn around. Finding something else that the Democrats have lied about or downplayed or misrepresented along the way,” Smith began.

Stephen A. Smith says he realized Democrats are full of s**t after the January 6th report supported Trump's claims. pic.twitter.com/SVuWZP2YPw

— Rusty (@Rusty_Weiss) December 16, 2024

The sports analyst goes on to point out that the report on the FBI's confidential sources was conveniently released following the election. He also referenced Vice President-elect JD Vance's post on social media that, previously, the idea that the bureau had sources on the ground was dismissed as a conspiracy theory.

For those keeping score at home, this was labeled a dangerous conspiracy theory months ago. https://t.co/gNJPUuRp5U

— JD Vance (@JDVance) December 12, 2024

Smith, it appears, is fed up that every time the Democrats try to portray the other side as evil, such as they did following the false "insurrection" spin, it turns out that they're actually just projecting.

Trump, he suggests, appears correct when he states that the process was "rigged."

"And now here we are yet again finding even more evidence to Donald Trump’s claims when he articulated that the process is rigged," Smith lamented. "The Democrats are this or that. They’re talking about us, but look at what they do."

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There is no admission in the IG report that any of the confidential sources - those there as directed or those who just showed up - instigated the ensuing escalation of protests.

Still, Smith went ballistic with his commentary that he'd been awoken to Democrat corruption when he realized the "insurrection" was not as it had been reported.

“My big issue is that I’m really, really sick and tired of every time I turn around. Finding something else that the Democrats have lied about or downplayed or misrepresented along the way,” he fumed.

Smith contends that commentators on the right always seem to be proven correct about things previously deemed "conspiracy theories."

"You know what I’m getting really p****d off about?!" he stated. "I’m getting really ticked off. And every time they (the right) open their mouth about something pertaining to y’all (the left), they seem right."

"We can argue policies. We can argue politics all day long," Smith contends. "But the Democrats worked really, really diligently to make the case that the right had a monopoly on insidious, evil tendencies. Corrupt tendencies. Duplicitous, hypocritical, untruthful tendencies."

"And every time they made those accusations. We turn around and find out that at least some of them are guilty of the same s**t."

Smith is not, by any stretch of the imagination, a Republican. He leans hard to the left. For him to get red-pilled on the January 6th protest is an indication of just how badly the Democrats overplayed their hand on the matter.