On the brink of regaining the power they tried to hold onto un- Constitutionally in their coup attempt on January 6, 2021, the Malignant Fascist (MF) and his MAGAt co- conspirators and enablers are feverishly at work trying to pull off the whitewash of the century:
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.
Both cases against Trump have been dismissed.
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. They cited the judge's previous ruling that Smith’s appointment was unconstitutional.
“The Final Report promises to be a one-sided, slanted report, relying nearly exclusively on evidence presented to a grand jury and subject to all requisite protections—and which is known to Smith only as a result of his unconstitutional appointment—in order to serve a singular purpose: convincing the public that everyone Smith charged is guilty of the crimes charged,” the four lawyers wrote.
Defense lawyers asked Cannon on Monday to hold a hearing and rule on their motion by Friday, saying they believe the release of the report is “imminent.”
Trump’s lawyers, meanwhile, sent a letter urging Attorney General Merrick Garland to stop Smith from releasing the report. In the letter, Trump’s lawyers called Smith an “out-of-control private citizen unconstitutionally posing as a prosecutor” aiming to politically harm Trump.
“Accordingly, because Smith has proposed an unlawful course of action, you must countermand his plan and remove him promptly. 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,” they wrote.
Trump’s lawyers said they reviewed a two-volume draft copy of Smith’s report at the special counsel’s office in Washington, D.C., over the weekend.
In his response to the emergency motion, Smith wrote that his office is working to finalize "a two-volume confidential report to the Attorney General explaining the Special Counsel’s prosecution decisions." He said that it would be Garland who decides whether any portion is released to the public and that one volume "pertains to this case."
Smith said his office won’t transmit that volume to Garland before 1 p.m. ET Tuesday. He also said Garland "has not yet determined how to handle the report volume pertaining to this case, about which the parties were conferring at the time the defendants filed the Motion, but the Department can commit that the Attorney General will not release that volume to the public, if he does at all," before 10 a.m. Friday...
The desperation and legal grasping in the MF's filing is palpable, but we fully expect the classified documents part of the report to be responded to favorably by his pocket judge Cannon, who has been the shadow defense counsel for the MF all along.
On the other hand, Merrick Garland can do one last honorable thing here. It won't make up for the unconscionable delay in the Justice Department's handling of the "election interference" case that allowed the MF to get off without so much as a slap on the wrist. But making public at least the part of the report that deals with the insurrection will provide a record that must stand against the blizzard of lies and gaslighting over what happened and who was to blame for the January 6 insurrection that has been an ongoing project of the MF and MAGA world since shortly after the event.
It will be hard enough for that history to be told with the power shifts about to occur and the media desperate to move on to new narratives. The report has to come out.
UPDATE: As expected --
JFC, Judge Cannon actually enjoined release of the Special Counsel report — which is mandated by statute! — and purports to keep injunction in place for three days after the 11th Circuit rules on a similar motion. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
— Liz Dye (@lizdye.bsky.social) January 7, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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