Trump: Jack Smith shouldn't be allowed to release report
President-elect Trump said Sunday that former special counsel Jack Smith shouldn’t be allowed to “issue a ‘report’ on a complete and total Witch Hunt against me.”
"Why would Deranged Jack Smith be allowed to issue a 'report' on a complete and total Witch Hunt against me, strictly for political purposes, when he was thrown off the case and ultimately dismissed by the DOJ,” Trump said in a Truth Social post, using an abbreviation for Department of Justice (DOJ).
“Therefore, to put it nicely, he was illegitimately involved in this political persecution, and all of the hundreds of millions of dollars spent by our hapless government were, simply put, wasted!” he added. “He has already filled thousands of rejected statements and documents against me, which were a ‘joke,’ and the public just voted for me, in a landslide, to be their President!”
The Department of Justice has been pushing to release Smith’s final report on his investigation into the president-elect.
However, there has been a recent legal battle with Trump and his two co-defendants in the Mar-a-Lago documents case, who have pressed to halt the release of the volume of the former special counsel’s report on the documents case and another reviewing the president-elect’s attempts to block the transfer of power after the 2020 presidential election.
Attorney General Merrick Garland has said he is not going to release the Mar-a-Lago volume of Smith’s report because of an ongoing case against the two co-defendants of the president-elect.
However, a move earlier in the week by the two co-defendants has resulted in the slowed release of the rest of the report, with the men turning to U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon for help. Cannon blocked the release of the report for an extra three days following a ruling from the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals. The defendants had also turned to the 11th Circuit for help, but the appeals court did not go ahead with an emergency motion to block the release of the report.
The Hill has reached out to the Justice Department for comment.