Trump makes last-minute push to block release of Jack Smith report

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Posted on 01/06/2025 8:29:06 PM PST by bitt

The two-volume report centers on the classified documents case and Trump's alleged efforts to subvert the results of the 2020 election.

President-elect Donald Trump on Monday night made a last-ditch effort to block the release of Special Counsel Jack Smith's closing report on two criminal cases that have since been dismissed.

Trump's legal team was allowed to review the two-volume report, which would present Smith's narrative of the evidence he gathered in the cases. It centers on the classified documents case and Trump's alleged efforts to subvert the results of the 2020 election.

The former president's team asked Attorney General Merrick Garland not to release the report, arguing that the decision should rest with the incoming Trump administration, and claimed that releasing it would illegally interfere with the presidential transition, per Politico.

The attorneys Todd Blanche, who has been nominated for Trump's deputy attorney general, and John Lauro also demanded that Garland fire Smith before he resigns.

“Because Smith has proposed an unlawful course of action, you must countermand his plan and remove him promptly,” the attorneys wrote.

The request comes the same day that attorneys for two of Trump's former co-defendants in the classified documents case asked Judge Aileen Cannon to issue an emergency order that bars Smith from releasing his report on the classified documents case by Jan. 10.

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