Trump's lawyers called for the withholding of the special counsel's report on his investigations, while activists urged Attorney General Garland to release it immediately.
U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland faced calls Monday to release special counsel Jack Smith 's final report on his investigations into Donald Trump as quickly as possible after the president-elect's legal team demanded that the Justice Department withhold the findings from the public. In an emailed letter to Garland—sent on the fourth anniversary of the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S.
Capitol that Trump incited—the president-elect's attorneys demanded that Smith 'terminate all efforts toward the preparation and release of this report,' claiming its disclosure would 'violate the Presidential Transition Act and the presidential immunity doctrine.' 'If Smith is not removed, then the handling of his report should be deferred to President Trump's incoming attorney general, consistent with the expressed will of the people,' wrote Trump's lawyers, who were permitted to review the two-volume report in recent days. One of the authors of the letter to Garland, Todd Blanche, is Trump's nominee to serve as deputy attorney general in the incoming administration.The demand from Trump's lawyers intensified calls for Garland to make Smith's findings available to the public.'Merrick Garland has exactly one more chance to show any smattering of spine—he has two weeks to release Jack Smith's report,' wrote activist Jon Bauman, president of the Social Security Works PAC. 'This is his last chance to do something right.' Smith was tasked with investigating Trump's unlawful hoarding of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate and his efforts to subvert the 2020 presidential election. The special counsel dropped both federal cases shortly after Trump won the 2024 election, arguing that 'the Constitution requires that this case be dismissed before the defendant is inaugurated.' But Smith stressed that the decision was 'not based on the merits or strength of the case against the defendant'
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