Trump Dealt Bad News About Jack Smith Report

WASHINGTON, DC - AUGUST 1: 
Special Prosecutor Jack Smith walks away after addressing reporters after his grand jury has issued more indictments of former President Donald Trump
 in Washington, DC. 
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A judge has cleared the path for the public release of Jack Smith’s investigation into Donald Trump’s election interference case.

U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon will allow the Justice Department to release volume one of the report, focuses on the Jan. 6. investigation. The federal judge initially temporarily blocked the release, but denied the request to extend the ban.

The first part of report could now come out as soon as midnight, with Attorney General Merrick Garland signaling that he’d release the documents when he was able to do so. Part two of the report on Trump’s classified documents case is still prohibited from being released.

With Trump being dismissed from his criminal cases in the wake of his election, the final report would be Smith’s last chance to lay out the details of what he found during his investigation.

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The news comes after Smith handed in his resignation from the DOJ last week. Trump’s feud with Smith is far-ranging, with Smith’s departure prompting the president-elect to refer to him as a "complete loser."

“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 wrote to Truth Social on Sunday.

“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 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!”

Trump’s lawyers have argued that Smith’s report is no more than a “politically-motivated attack” and that making public his findings would illegally interfere with Trump’s presidential transition.