Trump's attorneys have reviewed draft of Smith's final special counsel report and want it blocked from public release
Source: CNN
Lawyers for Donald Trump have reviewed a draft of special counsel Jack Smiths final report related to federal investigations into the president-elect and are threatening legal action if he releases it, according to a letter included in court filings from Trumps 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.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/06/politics/trump-smith-special-counsel-final-report/index.html
Special Counsel Jack Smith (Photo: Drew Angerer / Getty Images)
Boxes of classified documents stored in Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate. (Image: CNN)
Then-President Trump rallying militants on 6 Jan 2021. (Getty Images)
Insurrectionists inspired by Trump then storm the US Capitol on 6 Jan 2021. (Getty Images)
Special Counsel Website:
https://www.justice.gov/sco-smith
Transcript of Trump 6 Jan 2021 speech:
https://www.npr.org/2021/02/10/966396848/read-trumps-jan-6-speech-a-key-part-of-impeachment-trial
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(117,101 posts)The people have a right to know.
OAITW r.2.0
(28,888 posts)0rganism
(24,790 posts)If the shoe was on the other party, you know damn well that report would be public and on the front page of every newspaper within a day.
Rhiannon12866
(225,495 posts)Silent Type
(7,558 posts)stollen
(619 posts)Historic NY
(38,164 posts)JohnSJ
(96,894 posts)Charging Triceratops
(377 posts)But in this shithole???
rampartd
(1,120 posts)and why does his pet judge get to decide?
stollen
(619 posts)and it will make perfect sense. 👌
Roy Rolling
(7,227 posts)Of course. Thats what innocent people do to prove their innocence.
sakabatou
(43,354 posts)SunSeeker
(54,194 posts)Post it on all your social media accounts, Joe. 🙏
SKKY
(12,331 posts)BadgerMom
(3,002 posts)For the love of all thats holy, release them all!
Lonestarblue
(12,040 posts)Hes more likely to bury this one as well since he doesnt want to look political. Smith should just release it himself, mostly unredacted, and head back to The Hague for his own safety.
Evolve Dammit
(19,314 posts)tosh
(4,453 posts)Response to C0RI0LANUS (Original post)
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J_William_Ryan
(2,308 posts)It wouldn't have made any difference.
johnnyfins
(1,532 posts)Frank D. Lincoln
(696 posts)The worse Trump ends up looking in terms of his character, the more they love him.
Trump supporters, like Trump himself, are evil incarnate.
C0RI0LANUS
(2,256 posts)We have watched the arch-defendant slink and slither away from justice so often that most of realized the battlefield to defeat Trumpf was going to be in the election booth, not the courtroom (e.g. federal, state, county).
And no matter how scathing the SC report is, and whether it was released before 5 Nov 2024, MAGA Republicans were going to vote for Trumpf anyway.
Trumpf's numbers increased every election:
"Viewed in raw numbers, Trumpf got about 63 million votes in 2016, 74 million in 2020 and nearly 77 million in 2024."
Meanwhile, the Democratic Party turnout for Harris/Walz was drastically lower in 2024 than it was for Biden/Harris in 2020:
"Vice President Kamala Harris received about 6.8 million fewer votes than Joe Biden in 2020, while President-elect Donald Trump gained around 2.8 million compared with 2020."
For example, Kamala Harris captured 55% of New York States votes to Trumps 45%, the thinnest blue majority since 1992.
Americans deserve to read the unredacted Special Counsel report on Trumpf as as soon as possible as this is the result of our hard-working taxpayer funds at work. But releasing the report before that crucial Tuesday would not have tipped the scale for Kamala Harris.
Sources:
https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/27/politics/election-voters-harris-what-matters-dg/index.html
https://nysfocus.com/2024/11/06/how-new-york-voted-2024-harris-trump-senate
Kid Berwyn
(18,587 posts)Whatever King Donnie wants, King Donnie gets.
Oh, and FUCK TRAITOR TRUMP!
mn9driver
(4,618 posts)Like right now. This morning.
I have no expectation that this will happen, though. The fix is in.
Lokee11
(254 posts)She did.
Boomerproud
(8,536 posts)If they rule against Cannon, does it get appealed to the Supremes immediately?
HereForTheParty
(383 posts)Seems to me it's a product of public work and we're entitled to see it regardless of her ruling.
ScratchCat
(2,506 posts)And then read that the two lawyers are to be named #2 and #3 at DOJ, so I guess because they are incoming they get to see it just like other appointments. Its obvious why those two would be appointed. Its all complete bullshit and corruption.
And this has nothing to do with Judge Cannon.
Fullduplexxx
(8,381 posts)Owens
(368 posts)forgotmylogin
(7,701 posts)Why is Trump so scared? He is going to be the President and thus able to quash anything anyone does.
Is there something so bad that it would cause a revolt in the next two weeks that could pre-depose him?
I think it's just reflex and other than the grisly details we know everything. Trump is, per usual, worried about appearances. He doesn't need to do any news or press conferences; he's limiting who gets to ask questions in the press room, so he's going to be a mad dictator in a tower while all his flying monkeys carry out destruction.
Autumn
(46,815 posts)could ever have. Much better than Barr.
3Hotdogs
(13,691 posts)sheep at Bedminster.... ostensibly for keeping the grass in shape. But some people say he has a favorite "girl" among the herd. Not only that: SHE'S BLACK !
I heard that was in Smith's report and that's why Trump doesn't want it to be released. Melania might ask for a divorce if that gets out.
republianmushroom
(18,369 posts)47 months and counting, thank you Merrick the Meek.
kimbutgar
(23,779 posts)And Merrick release the unredacted Mueller and Epstein files before they are lost all together with the 🍊💩🤡s new national archivist.
Botany
(72,785 posts)And here is Trump with thousands of and thousands of pages of our top secrets and
nothing is going to happen to him. @ the very least we should see the report of what
he did.
no_hypocrisy
(49,437 posts)Would any media (MSM, cable, radio, podcasts) report on it? (Besides Rachel, Chris, etc.?)
johnnyfins
(1,532 posts)FakeNoose
(36,164 posts)aggiesal
(9,575 posts)I'm sure it would exonerate the Jan 6th committee, since all this started based on what the 1/6 committee found, embarrassing Garland into actually doing something, 1.5+ years after it happened.
IronLionZion
(47,284 posts)LetMyPeopleVote
(156,193 posts)Over the weekend, the president-elect's lawyers read a draft of the special counsel's final report. They then scrambled to keep it hidden from the public.
https://bsky.app/profile/donestep.bsky.social/post/3lf5vz434ys2y
Link to tweet
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/jack-smiths-findings-trump-acts-something-hide-rcna186536
Its these findings that Trump wants to keep hidden from the American public. NBC News reported:
President-elect Donald Trump and his former co-defendants in the Florida classified documents case launched an effort Monday to block the release of a final report by special counsel Jack Smith that also addresses the election interference case. ... Lawyers for defendants Walt Nauta and Carlos De Oliveira filed a motion Monday night asking U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon to block Smith, who prosecuted the case, from issuing his report.
Lets not brush too quickly past the fact that the former criminal defendants brought the matter to Cannon a highly controversial Trump-appointed conservative judge whose handling of the Republicans classified-documents case was widely condemned by legal experts.,,,,,
Its difficult to say what might happen next, though The New York Times report noted that Team Trump appears to have an uphill battle.
The article explained:
Mr. Trumps lawyers have no power to force Mr. Garland to stop the report from coming out, and their letter amounted to little more than a belligerent request. It is also unclear whether Judge Cannon would have the authority to tell the attorney general how to handle a report by a special counsel that he himself appointed, especially when the case is technically out of her hands and in front of an appeals court.
As for the near future, its also an open question what Trump might try to do after his Inauguration Day: A couple of weeks before Election Day 2024, the then-GOP candidate said he wanted Smith to be thrown out of the United States.
trump believes that he is above the law. It is clear that trump is scared of this report
MontanaMama
(24,117 posts)We most likely will not. Aileen Cannon, Merrick Garland and scotus are not small obstacles.
CaptainTruth
(7,299 posts)Ray Bruns
(4,781 posts)He should have just released it and then told anyone who didnt like it to fuck off!
mdbl
(5,557 posts)He should just release it. Any agreement they give him they will just break anyway.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(117,101 posts)The insurrection took place in DC
malthaussen
(17,810 posts)amcgrath
(399 posts)If you think the report would make Trump look bad, just imagine what it would do to Merrick Garland. To have such vast amounts of incontrovertible evidence and to have insured that nothing was done is almost certainly the biggest betrayal of their country, by any person in history.
Garland knowingly oversaw the protection of a group of individuals intent on seizing the country for their own personal desires. My disgust at Garland is only matched by my disgust at the "podcast lawyers" who of four years have told their listeners that we are are too ignorant to understand the legal system and that we should not be impatient. They preached down to us, condemning those who pointed out that was nothing was being done. Through four years when public outcry and protest may have spurred Biden to remove Garland, those faux liberal law mongers did everything they could to quell the slightest complaint.
They sold lies along with their vitamin supplements and magical products.
And now they are trying to reframe their "mission statements" with fresh promises of how if we buy a subscription they will lead us to the promised land. They have been enablers of a DOJ that had shown its plan to do nothing.
Garland will not release the report, Trumps new AG will insure that it is classified or destroyed. The final act after years of being told that checks and balances would save us. That Mueller would save us. That two impeachments would save us. That the J6 committee would save us. That New York trials would save us. That Georgia trials would save us. That Florida trials would save us.
Nobody is coming to save us, and if they say they are, they are lying to encourage your inaction.
homegirl
(1,595 posts)I hope Jack Smith's self reservation instincts are so strong that he does the following:
1. Load all pertinent information and documentation onto a couple of thumb drives.
2. Take his family and move to Great Britain or Holland.
3. Arrange publication with a British publisher.
4. Move to an isolated community or the Highlands, maybe Northern Ireland.
Guaranteed Best Seller!
North Coast Lawyer
(33 posts)When Trump's bought and paid for judges block release someone needs to leak this report. Time for a present day Daniel Ellsberg.
C0RI0LANUS
(2,256 posts)US Army Counterintelligence Agent CPT Christopher Pyle exposed military spying on students during the Vietnam War.
C0RI0LANUS
(2,256 posts)Journalists (and us at DU) will be monitoring: https://www.justice.gov/sco-smith
The attorneys on DU can comment better on this, but SC Jack Smith seemed to have rendered a professional courtesy to his legal adversaries by allowing them to read the report and voice their objections before national publication (which they did).
Unfortunately, if/when released there will be redactions to protect sources and methods.
If somehow Jack Smith is blocked from releasing it, I imagine a staff member might leak the report like in 2023 when someone leaked damaging SCOTUS memos regarding Roe vs. Wade.
Here is a website chock full of secrets: https://ddosecrets.com/
And international and domestic hackers may be busy trying to obtain his report this very moment.
Source:
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/01/19/five-takeaways-from-supreme-court-leak-investigation-00078673
idahoblue
(407 posts)There needs to be a massive leak on January 25. The leak needs to occur during the Felon administration.
C0RI0LANUS
(2,256 posts)This SCOTUS wannabe issued an injunction against releasing the SC report to the American people.
Source:
https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/06/politics/trump-smith-special-counsel-final-report/index.html
RANDYWILDMAN
(2,949 posts)and why would they ever want it to see the light of day, he controls Congress, the DOJ, and most of the Supreme Court.
90 million people didn't vote and the majority of voters didn't vote for him
He acts like he won by a landslide....WTF, how did we get here so quickly
Historic NY
(38,164 posts)AllaN01Bear
(23,535 posts)C0RI0LANUS
(2,256 posts)Jilly_in_VA
(11,236 posts)Because if he can, he should do it about 10 am on Jan 20.