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C0RI0LANUS

(3,015 posts)
Mon Jan 6, 2025, 11:57 PM Jan 2025

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 Smith’s 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 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.

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
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Trump's attorneys have reviewed draft of Smith's final special counsel report and want it blocked from public release (Original Post) C0RI0LANUS Jan 2025 OP
Fuck em Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jan 2025 #1
We do. OAITW r.2.0 Jan 2025 #3
Sure would be a shame if someone leaked the report 0rganism Jan 2025 #2
Of course they do! The people deserve to see it after all this country has been through thanks to TFG! Rhiannon12866 Jan 2025 #4
It'll be released or leaked. Probably won't be much we don't already know/suspect. Silent Type Jan 2025 #5
We do the opposite of what Orange wants stollen Jan 2025 #52
All the more to do so. Historic NY Jan 2025 #6
This report should have been released BEFORE THE F**KING ELECTION!!! JohnSJ Jan 2025 #7
In any decent country, yes Charging Triceratops Jan 2025 #24
the former mf should have been in jail before the election rampartd Jan 2025 #45
Joyce Vance will explain it to us stollen Jan 2025 #53
Blocked? Roy Rolling Jan 2025 #8
They want it blocked because it's too damning. sakabatou Jan 2025 #9
Biden should just release it. He has immunity. Just do it, Joe. SunSeeker Jan 2025 #10
THIS, 1,000,000 times!!!! SKKY Jan 2025 #16
And the Mueller report. Unredacted. BadgerMom Jan 2025 #11
Garland was too chicken to release the Mueller report or to follow up on the 10 counts of obstruction. Lonestarblue Jan 2025 #17
very disappointing. Clearly not on the "rule of law" being above all and making it a public record. Pitiful really Evolve Dammit Jan 2025 #34
Release it now! tosh Jan 2025 #12
This message was self-deleted by its author ancianita Jan 2025 #13
"This report should have been released BEFORE THE F**KING ELECTION!!!" J_William_Ryan Jan 2025 #14
Prolly would have gotten him MORE votes johnnyfins Jan 2025 #19
You're probably right. Frank D. Lincoln Jan 2025 #62
Releasing the Special Counsel report before 5 Nov 2024 would not have made a difference. C0RI0LANUS Jan 2025 #15
Well, that settles it. Kid Berwyn Jan 2025 #18
Cannon will suppress it. Smith should release it immediately. mn9driver Jan 2025 #20
You are right Lokee11 Jan 2025 #32
It's up to the 11th circuit now right? Boomerproud Jan 2025 #35
Why is the DOJ running it past this judge or Trump's lawyers? HereForTheParty Jan 2025 #21
I thought the same thing ScratchCat Jan 2025 #26
because " It's A BIG Club & You Ain't In It!" george carlin Fullduplexxx Jan 2025 #60
Smith needs to make 1,000s of copies and stash them hidden all over the country Owens Jan 2025 #22
Burn Book him. forgotmylogin Jan 2025 #43
Garland will do exactly what Trump tells him to do trump should keep him on. He's the best AG trump Autumn Jan 2025 #23
Not releasing it allows opportunity for speculation. Why just yesterday, people were saying that Trump keeps a herd of 3Hotdogs Jan 2025 #25
13 days jack. republianmushroom Jan 2025 #27
Realize it asap Jack Smith kimbutgar Jan 2025 #28
Reality Winner got 5 years for one stolen document. (Which showed Russian collusion w/Trump) Botany Jan 2025 #29
Query: Were the report released, no_hypocrisy Jan 2025 #30
Only of they "donate" to TSF's library. johnnyfins Jan 2025 #33
I think Politico would be happy to publish it in its entirety FakeNoose Jan 2025 #38
Then it must have some really juicy evidence, that Jan 6th Committee didn't see. I say let's see the document! ... aggiesal Jan 2025 #31
So there must be some damning criminal information in there IronLionZion Jan 2025 #36
On Jack Smith's findings, Trump acts like he has something to hide LetMyPeopleVote Jan 2025 #37
We deserve to see it, and MontanaMama Jan 2025 #39
Screw them. CaptainTruth Jan 2025 #40
Why did Smith give them time to review it in the first place. Ray Bruns Jan 2025 #41
Is Garland waiting for some personal deal from the Dump administration? mdbl Jan 2025 #42
How does Judge Qanon have jurisdiction over this? Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jan 2025 #44
I'll bet they do. n/t malthaussen Jan 2025 #46
It will not be released. amcgrath Jan 2025 #47
Hey, Jack... homegirl Jan 2025 #63
Leak It North Coast Lawyer Jan 2025 #48
Some historic leakers have helped the American people. C0RI0LANUS Jan 2025 #54
Other than direct orders from the USAG, nothing can stop SC Jack Smith from publishing the report in his portal. C0RI0LANUS Jan 2025 #49
Time for a leak idahoblue Jan 2025 #50
The Enemy of the American People C0RI0LANUS Jan 2025 #51
His Lawyers hate the truth RANDYWILDMAN Jan 2025 #55
Bring it on Historic NY Jan 2025 #56
so what do they want to hide. AllaN01Bear Jan 2025 #57
How indeed did America get to this horrible inflection point. C0RI0LANUS Jan 2025 #58
Can Biden order it released? Jilly_in_VA Jan 2025 #59
Glenn K takes on Smudge Cannon's fuckery... RobertDevereaux Jan 2025 #61
Release the kracken, er, REPORT!!!!! Maeve Jan 2025 #64

0rganism

(25,447 posts)
2. Sure would be a shame if someone leaked the report
Tue Jan 7, 2025, 12:01 AM
Jan 2025

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

(248,699 posts)
4. Of course they do! The people deserve to see it after all this country has been through thanks to TFG!
Tue Jan 7, 2025, 12:05 AM
Jan 2025

rampartd

(3,393 posts)
45. the former mf should have been in jail before the election
Tue Jan 7, 2025, 02:08 PM
Jan 2025

and why does his pet judge get to decide?

SunSeeker

(57,405 posts)
10. Biden should just release it. He has immunity. Just do it, Joe.
Tue Jan 7, 2025, 01:36 AM
Jan 2025

Post it on all your social media accounts, Joe. 🙏

Lonestarblue

(13,161 posts)
17. Garland was too chicken to release the Mueller report or to follow up on the 10 counts of obstruction.
Tue Jan 7, 2025, 09:34 AM
Jan 2025

He’s more likely to bury this one as well since he doesn’t want to look political. Smith should just release it himself, mostly unredacted, and head back to The Hague for his own safety.

Evolve Dammit

(21,385 posts)
34. very disappointing. Clearly not on the "rule of law" being above all and making it a public record. Pitiful really
Tue Jan 7, 2025, 12:35 PM
Jan 2025

Response to C0RI0LANUS (Original post)

J_William_Ryan

(3,252 posts)
14. "This report should have been released BEFORE THE F**KING ELECTION!!!"
Tue Jan 7, 2025, 05:40 AM
Jan 2025

It wouldn't have made any difference.

Frank D. Lincoln

(894 posts)
62. You're probably right.
Tue Jan 7, 2025, 07:27 PM
Jan 2025

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

(3,015 posts)
15. Releasing the Special Counsel report before 5 Nov 2024 would not have made a difference.
Tue Jan 7, 2025, 06:52 AM
Jan 2025

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 State’s votes to Trump’s 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

(22,606 posts)
18. Well, that settles it.
Tue Jan 7, 2025, 09:48 AM
Jan 2025

Whatever King Donnie wants, King Donnie gets.

Oh, and FUCK TRAITOR TRUMP!

mn9driver

(4,805 posts)
20. Cannon will suppress it. Smith should release it immediately.
Tue Jan 7, 2025, 09:53 AM
Jan 2025

Like right now. This morning.

I have no expectation that this will happen, though. The fix is in.

Boomerproud

(9,093 posts)
35. It's up to the 11th circuit now right?
Tue Jan 7, 2025, 12:37 PM
Jan 2025

If they rule against Cannon, does it get appealed to the Supremes immediately?

 

HereForTheParty

(915 posts)
21. Why is the DOJ running it past this judge or Trump's lawyers?
Tue Jan 7, 2025, 09:59 AM
Jan 2025

Seems to me it's a product of public work and we're entitled to see it regardless of her ruling.

ScratchCat

(2,659 posts)
26. I thought the same thing
Tue Jan 7, 2025, 11:22 AM
Jan 2025

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.

forgotmylogin

(7,939 posts)
43. Burn Book him.
Tue Jan 7, 2025, 02:03 PM
Jan 2025


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

(48,704 posts)
23. Garland will do exactly what Trump tells him to do trump should keep him on. He's the best AG trump
Tue Jan 7, 2025, 10:14 AM
Jan 2025

could ever have. Much better than Barr.

3Hotdogs

(14,907 posts)
25. Not releasing it allows opportunity for speculation. Why just yesterday, people were saying that Trump keeps a herd of
Tue Jan 7, 2025, 11:16 AM
Jan 2025

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.

kimbutgar

(26,622 posts)
28. Realize it asap Jack Smith
Tue Jan 7, 2025, 11:37 AM
Jan 2025

And Merrick release the unredacted Mueller and Epstein files before they are lost all together with the 🍊💩🤡’s new national archivist.

Botany

(76,140 posts)
29. Reality Winner got 5 years for one stolen document. (Which showed Russian collusion w/Trump)
Tue Jan 7, 2025, 11:40 AM
Jan 2025

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

(54,047 posts)
30. Query: Were the report released,
Tue Jan 7, 2025, 11:43 AM
Jan 2025

Would any media (MSM, cable, radio, podcasts) report on it? (Besides Rachel, Chris, etc.?)

aggiesal

(10,498 posts)
31. Then it must have some really juicy evidence, that Jan 6th Committee didn't see. I say let's see the document! ...
Tue Jan 7, 2025, 12:19 PM
Jan 2025

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.

LetMyPeopleVote

(173,911 posts)
37. On Jack Smith's findings, Trump acts like he has something to hide
Tue Jan 7, 2025, 01:00 PM
Jan 2025

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.

On Jack Smith's findings, Trump acts like he has something to hide



https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/jack-smiths-findings-trump-acts-something-hide-rcna186536

That, strictly speaking, wasn’t true, either. But as notable as Trump’s deceptions were, there was a related question hanging overhead: Why bother with a sudden offensive against a prosecutor who’s exiting the stage? The answer probably had something to do with the one final element of Smith’s efforts: the summary of his findings in the form of a final report.

It’s 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.


Let’s 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 Republican’s classified-documents case was widely condemned by legal experts.,,,,,

It’s 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. Trump’s 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, it’s 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

(24,599 posts)
39. We deserve to see it, and
Tue Jan 7, 2025, 01:09 PM
Jan 2025

We most likely will not. Aileen Cannon, Merrick Garland and scotus are not small obstacles.

Ray Bruns

(5,894 posts)
41. Why did Smith give them time to review it in the first place.
Tue Jan 7, 2025, 01:23 PM
Jan 2025

He should have just released it and then told anyone who didn’t like it to fuck off!

mdbl

(7,971 posts)
42. Is Garland waiting for some personal deal from the Dump administration?
Tue Jan 7, 2025, 01:45 PM
Jan 2025

He should just release it. Any agreement they give him they will just break anyway.

amcgrath

(418 posts)
47. It will not be released.
Tue Jan 7, 2025, 02:12 PM
Jan 2025

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

(1,913 posts)
63. Hey, Jack...
Tue Jan 7, 2025, 07:35 PM
Jan 2025

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

(221 posts)
48. Leak It
Tue Jan 7, 2025, 02:35 PM
Jan 2025

When Trump's bought and paid for judges block release someone needs to leak this report. Time for a present day Daniel Ellsberg.

C0RI0LANUS

(3,015 posts)
54. Some historic leakers have helped the American people.
Tue Jan 7, 2025, 04:54 PM
Jan 2025





US Army Counterintelligence Agent CPT Christopher Pyle exposed military spying on students during the Vietnam War.

C0RI0LANUS

(3,015 posts)
49. Other than direct orders from the USAG, nothing can stop SC Jack Smith from publishing the report in his portal.
Tue Jan 7, 2025, 04:22 PM
Jan 2025

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

(444 posts)
50. Time for a leak
Tue Jan 7, 2025, 04:31 PM
Jan 2025

There needs to be a massive leak on January 25. The leak needs to occur during the Felon administration.

RANDYWILDMAN

(3,120 posts)
55. His Lawyers hate the truth
Tue Jan 7, 2025, 05:00 PM
Jan 2025

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

C0RI0LANUS

(3,015 posts)
58. How indeed did America get to this horrible inflection point.
Tue Jan 7, 2025, 06:09 PM
Jan 2025
The nefarious little snowball began at the top in 2016. Now we a face titanic calamity at the bottom in 2025:


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