Summary
Donald Trump’s lawyers are seeking to block the release of special counsel Jack Smith’s final report on two prosecutions, claiming it could harm the presidential transition and be seen as a political act.
The report is expected to include damaging details about Trump’s alleged attempts to overturn the 2020 election and hide classified documents.
Trump’s legal team has requested that Attorney General Merrick Garland fire Smith and defer handling the report to Trump’s incoming attorney general.
Smith plans to resign before Trump’s inauguration, but the report’s release remains “imminent.”
I don’t disagree for history’s sake, but don’t expect it to make a damn bit of difference.
It might not make an immediate difference, but it’s a huge loss if this report never sees the light of day. It’s another tetrapod on the beach of reality. The sea of disinformation is at high tide at the moment, but maybe eventually the tide ebbs, and everything we can do to prevent erosion helps.
I welcome anything to help avoid us becoming another Russia and succumb to the nihilism of cynical hypernormalization.