Merrick Garland Plans To Release Jack Smith’s Report on Trump and January 6 — but Not the Part About Secret Documents at Mar-a-Lago

The Department of Justice discloses a plan to share the special counsel’s findings before the president-elect takes office.

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Special Counsel Jack Smith delivers remarks on August 1, 2023 at Washington, DC. Drew Angerer/Getty Images

Attorney General Garland will soon release Special Counsel Jack Smith’s final report on President-elect Trump’s alleged interference in the 2020 election — but not the prosecutor’s reflections on the classified documents case against the 47th president and two of his employees and co-defendants. 

That plan emerged from a motion filed by the Department of Justice to the 11th United States Appeals Circuit. That motion opposed a request by those two co-defendants — Waltine Nauta and Carlos de Oliveira — to bury the report in its entirety. Mr. Smith has already submitted his report to Mr. Garland.  

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