Special Counsel Jack Smith announced plans to release a two-volume report on investigations into former President Donald Trump, potentially as early as Friday. The disclosure came in response to Trump's legal team's efforts to block the report's publication.
FILE - Special counsel Jack Smith speaks to the media about an indictment of former President Donald Trump , Aug. 1, 2023, at an office of the Department of Justice in Washington.
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.Trump was charged alongside two codefendants in the classified documents case, which was dismissed in July by a Trump-appointed judge who concluded that Smith's appointment was illegal.
Using language that mimicked Trump's own attacks on Smith and his work, Blanche told Garland that the "release of any confidential report prepared by this out-of-control private citizen unconstitutionally posing as a prosecutor would be nothing more than a lawless political stunt, designed to politically harm President Trump and justify the huge sums of taxpayer money Smith unconstitutionally spent on his failed and dismissed cases.
In response to that request, Smith's team said in a two-page filing early Tuesday that it intended to submit its report to Garland by the afternoon and that the volume pertaining to the classified documents investigation would not be made public before 10 a.m. Friday. It is presumed that both volumes of Smith's report would be released simultaneously.
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