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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Mary Papenfuss and Alex Woodward

Trump lawyers scramble to block ‘imminent’ release of Jack Smith’s report on criminal charges

Lawyers for Donald Trump and his former co-defendants are trying to block the “imminent” release of a final report by special counsel Jack Smith following his prosecution of the president-elect for his attempts to overturn election results and his withholding of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago compound.

An anticipated report follows Smith’s November decision to effectively end the cases altogether after a years-long attempt to prosecute Trump for alleged crimes spelled out in hundreds of pages of evidence.

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