Trump's attorneys have reviewed draft of Smith's final special counsel report and want it blocked from public release

[C0RI0LANUS]

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

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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]

1. Fuck em

The people have a right to know.

[OAITW r.2.0]

3. We do.

[0rganism]

2. Sure would be a shame if someone leaked the report

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]

4. Of course they do! The people deserve to see it after all this country has been through thanks to TFG!

[Silent Type]

5. It'll be released or leaked. Probably won't be much we don't already know/suspect.

[stollen]

52. We do the opposite of what Orange wants

[Historic NY]

6. All the more to do so.

[JohnSJ]

7. This report should have been released BEFORE THE F**KING ELECTION!!!

[Charging Triceratops]

24. In any decent country, yes

But in this shithole???

[rampartd]

45. the former mf should have been in jail before the election

and why does his pet judge get to decide?

[stollen]

53. Joyce Vance will explain it to us

and it will make perfect sense. 👌

[Roy Rolling]

8. Blocked?

Of course. That’s what innocent people do to prove their innocence.

[sakabatou]

9. They want it blocked because it's too damning.

[SunSeeker]

10. Biden should just release it. He has immunity. Just do it, Joe.

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

[SKKY]

16. THIS, 1,000,000 times!!!!

[BadgerMom]

11. And the Mueller report. Unredacted.

For the love of all that’s holy, release them all!

[Lonestarblue]

17. Garland was too chicken to release the Mueller report or to follow up on the 10 counts of obstruction.

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]

34. very disappointing. Clearly not on the "rule of law" being above all and making it a public record. Pitiful really

[tosh]

12. Release it now!

[J_William_Ryan]

14. "This report should have been released BEFORE THE F**KING ELECTION!!!"

It wouldn't have made any difference.

[johnnyfins]

19. Prolly would have gotten him MORE votes

[Frank D. Lincoln]

62. You're probably right.

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]

15. Releasing the Special Counsel report before 5 Nov 2024 would not have made a difference.

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]

18. Well, that settles it.

Whatever King Donnie wants, King Donnie gets.

Oh, and FUCK TRAITOR TRUMP!

[mn9driver]

20. Cannon will suppress it. Smith should release it immediately.

Like right now. This morning.

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

[Lokee11]

32. You are right

She did.

[Boomerproud]

35. It's up to the 11th circuit now right?

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

[HereForTheParty]

21. Why is the DOJ running it past this judge or Trump's lawyers?

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

[ScratchCat]

26. I thought the same thing

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]

60. because " It's A BIG Club & You Ain't In It!" george carlin

[Owens]

22. Smith needs to make 1,000s of copies and stash them hidden all over the country

[forgotmylogin]

43. Burn Book him.

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]

23. Garland will do exactly what Trump tells him to do trump should keep him on. He's the best AG trump

could ever have. Much better than Barr.

[3Hotdogs]

25. Not releasing it allows opportunity for speculation. Why just yesterday, people were saying that Trump keeps a herd of

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]

27. 13 days jack.

47 months and counting, thank you Merrick the Meek.

[kimbutgar]

28. Realize it asap Jack Smith

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

[Botany]

29. Reality Winner got 5 years for one stolen document. (Which showed Russian collusion w/Trump)

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]

30. Query: Were the report released,

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

[johnnyfins]

33. Only of they "donate" to TSF's library.

[FakeNoose]

38. I think Politico would be happy to publish it in its entirety

[aggiesal]

31. Then it must have some really juicy evidence, that Jan 6th Committee didn't see. I say let's see the document! ...

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]

36. So there must be some damning criminal information in there

[LetMyPeopleVote]

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

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

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

Link to tweet

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]

39. We deserve to see it, and

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

[CaptainTruth]

40. Screw them.

[Ray Bruns]

41. Why did Smith give them time to review it in the first place.

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

[mdbl]

42. Is Garland waiting for some personal deal from the Dump administration?

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

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

44. How does Judge Qanon have jurisdiction over this?

The insurrection took place in DC

[malthaussen]

46. I'll bet they do. n/t

[amcgrath]

47. It will not be released.

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]

63. Hey, Jack...

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]

48. Leak It

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

[C0RI0LANUS]

54. Some historic leakers have helped the American people.

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

[C0RI0LANUS]

49. Other than direct orders from the USAG, nothing can stop SC Jack Smith from publishing the report in his portal.

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]

50. Time for a leak

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

[C0RI0LANUS]

51. The Enemy of the American People

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]

55. His Lawyers hate the truth

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]

56. Bring it on

[AllaN01Bear]

57. so what do they want to hide.

[C0RI0LANUS]

58. How indeed did America get to this horrible inflection point.

The nefarious little snowball began at the top in 2016. Now we a face titanic calamity at the bottom in 2025:

[Jilly_in_VA]

59. Can Biden order it released?

Because if he can, he should do it about 10 am on Jan 20.

[RobertDevereaux]

61. Glenn K takes on Smudge Cannon's fuckery...

[Maeve]

64. Release the kracken, er, REPORT!!!!!