Judge blocks release of Trump documents case report by special counsel Jack Smith
A Florida federal judge appointed by President Donald Trump blocked the public release of a final report by former special counsel Jack Smith on his prosecution of Trump for retaining classified documents after leaving the White House at his Mar-a-Lago club and for blocking efforts to retrieve them. Judge Aileen Cannon, in her order, cited her July 2024 ruling that Smith was not legally appointed as special counsel, which led to her dismissing the criminal case against Trump, as the key reason she said that Volume II of his final report on the case should not be made public. Smith had obtained a grand jury indictment of Trump on charges related to those documents in June 2023, more than two years after Trump ended his first term in the White House. Cannon also on Monday rejected a request by Trump’s two co-defendants in the case to have Smith’s report destroyed. In her order permanently blocking the release of that report, Cannon blasted Smith for his “brazen stratagem” of compiling evidence and other material…
23 Feb 00:00 · Inlandnewstoday