Trump requests Garland block Smith’s final report

[craig nigrelli]

ON MONDAY — LAWYERS FOR PRESIDENT-ELECT DONALD TRUMP SENT A LETTER TO ATTORNEY GENERAL MERRICK GARLAND – ASKING HIM TO STOP SPECIAL COUNSEL JACK SMITH FROM RELEASING HIS FINAL REPORT ON THE ELECTION INTERFERENCE CASE AND THE CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS CASE.

THOUGH BOTH CASES HAVE BEEN DISMISSED – THE SPECIAL COUNSEL IS REQUIRED TO PROVIDE A REPORT TO GARLAND – WHO CAN THEN DECIDED WHETHER TO MAKE IT PUBLIC.

ACCORDING TO THE LETTER AND A LEGAL FILING  – LAWYERS FOR TRUMP — AS WELL AS  FOR TWO OF HIS FORMER CO-DEFENDANTS IN THE DOCUMENTS CASE – WERE ABLE TO VIEW A TWO-VOLUME DRAFT COPY OF THE REPORT OVER THE WEEKEND. THEY CALLED IT QUOTE “ONE-SIDED” AND “SLANTED.”

IN THE LETTER – TRUMP’S LAWYER REQUESTED GARLAND FIRE SMITH – WHO IS SET TO RESIGN BEFORE TRUMP’S INAUGURATION – OR LET THE DECISION ON THE RELEASE OF THE REPORT BE HANDLED BY TRUMP’S INCOMING ATTORNEY GENERAL, PAM BONDI.

MEANTIME – THE LAWYERS FOR TRUMP’S TWO FORMER CO-DEFENDANTS,  IN THE DOCUMENTS CASE,  ARE ASKING THE JUDGE WHO DISMISSED THE CASE, TO HALT THE REPORT’S RELEASE – CITING HER RULING THAT SMITH’S APPOINTMENT WAS UNCONSTITUTIONAL.

WHILE IT IS NOT CLEAR WHEN THE REPORT WOULD BE RELEASED – THE LAWYERS HAVE ASKED THE JUDGE FOR HEARING ON THEIR REQUEST BY FRIDAY – BELIEVING THE RELEASE IS “IMMINENT.”