The corrupt Jack Smith is trying to leave President-elect Trump with a parting ‘gift’ before he is booted out of office.
Smith wants to release a report on his investigation into Trump but Judge Aileen Cannon just blocked them from releasing it.
Here’s the news via CNN:
Federal District Judge Aileen Cannon on Tuesday blocked the release of special counsel Jack Smith’s final report on his investigations into President-elect Donald Trump.Her order prevent Smith and the Justice Department from moving forward with releasing the report until the 11th US Circuit Court of Appeals has time to review the emergency motion by Trump’s codefendants to block the report’s release.
The move comes amid a flurry of legal filings Monday night and Tuesday. Lawyers for Trump have reviewed a draft of Smith’s final report related to federal investigations into the president-elect and are threatening legal action if the Justice Department moves to release it, according to a letter included in court filings from Trump’s former co-defendants Monday night.
In the filings, Walt Nauta and Carlos De Oliveira ask Judge Aileen Cannon to block the release of the special counsel report, which was expected in the coming days before Trump is sworn in as president for the second time. The two men, who both worked for Trump and have pleaded not guilty to obstruction related crimes, argued in the filings that Smith does not have the authority to release the report because Cannon previously deemed his appointment as special counsel unlawful.
The filings included the letter from Trump’s attorneys to Attorney General Merrick Garland making similar arguments and stating that they were allowed “to review the two-volume Draft Report in a conference room at Smith’s office between January 3 and January 6, 2025.” The attorneys, two of whom have been selected by Trump for top Justice Department roles in the new administration, asked for advance notice of the report’s release so that they can “take appropriate legal action.”
The defense lawyers made similar arguments in filings submitted Tuesday morning to the 11th US Circuit Court of Appeals, which is currently considering the Justice Department’s appeal of Cannon’s ruling finding Smith’s appointment to be unconstitutional.
In the court filings, the defense lawyers said that the government allowed them “limited-access” review of the draft over the weekend and that it “revealed a one-sided narrative arguing that the Defendants committed the crimes charged in this case.”
In a separate overnight court filing, Smith’s office laid out more of the timeline on the finalization of the report. The special counsel’s office said it would not hand the report over to the attorney general until 1 p.m. ET Tuesday at the earliest, and the attorney general wouldn’t release it until at earliest Friday morning.
“The Attorney General has not yet determined how to handle the report volume pertaining to this case, about which the parties were conferring at the time the defendants filed the motion,” Smith’s team wrote. The special counsel’s office indicated the report would have two volumes: likely one related to the documents case and another related to the separate January 6-related federal charges against Trump.
Joe Biden, Merrick Garland and Jack Smith are trying to take a dump on the beginning of President Trump’s new term in office and they’ll probably get their way, giving the media what they need to try and scandalize Trump as he enters office on the 20th. It’s totally unfair because Trump hasn’t been convicted of anything. And since they lost, they are trying to get him convicted in the court of public opinion.
Thankfully Cannon blocked it for now. Obviously I don’t have much confidence in the 11th Circuit, and if they don’t rule to block it before the 20th when the incoming Trump administration can officially squash the report – or even if they do, you can bet this report will be leaked to the media so the media can try and ruin Trump’s big day.
https://therightscoop.com/breaking-federal-judge-blocks-jack-smith-from-releasing-report-on-trump-cases/
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