The Fascist/Felon Guy’s bigly legal team and his former co-defendants in the Florida classified documents case file motions and judge shop to block the release of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s final report that addresses the election interference case.
The report in question is one that the special counsel’s office is required under Justice Department regulations to provide. Attorney General Merrick Garland can choose whether to make the confidential report public. Both the classified documents and election interference cases have been dismissed.
Lawyers for Walt Nauta and Carlos De Oliveira, defendants in the classified documents case in Florida, filed a motion last night asking U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon to block Smith from issuing his report, which they believe to be “imminent.” They cited Cannon’s ruling to dismiss the case against Trump in July because she argued Smith’s appointment was unconstitutional.
Meanwhile, Trump’s lawyers have sent a letter urging Attorney General Merrick Garland to stop Smith from releasing the report. In their letter, Trump’s team called Smith an “out-of-control private citizen unconstitutionally posing as a prosecutor.”
Special counsel Jack Smith said Tuesday that his team was finalizing a two-volume report on its investigations into President-elect Donald Trump and that at least one volume of it could be released by the Justice Department as early as Friday.
The disclosure came in response to a request by defense lawyers, filed in court and in a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland, to preemptively block the report from being made public.
The report is expected to describe charging decisions made in separate investigations by Smith into Trump’s hoarding of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate and his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in the run-up to the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol.
