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submitted 2 days ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

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."

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[-] GoofSchmoofer@lemmy.world 50 points 2 days ago

Honestly this report could have rock solid evidence of treason, pedophilia, murder, drug usage/dealing and election tampering. It could have eye witness reports, links to video testimony, shit it could have trump himself admitting to doing all of these things and it would have 0 effect on the support he has.

Weirdly trump and his lawyers don't even seem to understand this.

[-] earphone843@sh.itjust.works 26 points 2 days ago

You're very wrong.

All of that would increase his support.

[-] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 86 points 2 days ago

Just release it you spineless fucks.

Milquetoast will go down in our history as the weakest man to ever hold the AG spot and should have rotten produce thrown at him whenever he sticks his head out in public.

[-] Absaroka@lemmy.world 54 points 2 days ago

If the Trump legal team has viewed it, and it's been submitted to a judge, enough people have seen this thing for an "anonymous leak" of the reports to the media.

Do it.

[-] WrenFeathers@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

So, releasing evidence of wrongdoing and criminality is a now political act?

Outing a criminal is political now. Unbelievable.

[-] rational_lib@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago

So if you're Trump you get to steal and disclose top secret documents with impunity. But if you're disclosing information about Trump's wrongdoing, it's illegal even if it's non secret info in the public interest.

Makes me wonder what would have if Trump disclosed top secret info about his own wrong doing? Would we get a perpetual motion machine powered by Trump going in and out of prison?

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 30 points 2 days ago

This does not matter anymore. They don't have to attempt to overturn elections anymore. The elections will be Russia-style in perpetuity.

Thanks for "helping."

[-] 0xb@lemm.ee 22 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Why? What's even the point of blocking anything? Do anyone think that it will have any effect? Its very obvious by now that anybody who was able to do something about it doesn't give a fuck. It will just be milked for headlines for a few days and then die down, without any consequence for anybody mentioned in it. Why do they even care if it's released?

[-] bravesilvernest@lemmy.ml 17 points 2 days ago

My pleading with the universe hope is that what's in that evidence is in fact damning enough that the public would immediately call for him to actually face justice.

But again, "pleading" hope

[-] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 25 points 2 days ago

My pleading with the universe hope is that what’s in that evidence is in fact damning enough that the public would immediately call for him to actually face justice.

Not to be negative to you or anything, but if I've learned anything in the past 8 years its that there is literally nothing that could reside in that document which could result in a negative reaction from those who put him in power, or any kind of consequences. Maybe if he was secretly registered Democrat somehow. That would be about it.

[-] EldritchFeminity 8 points 2 days ago

Trump was a registered Democrat up until 2016. I distinctly remember my boss reasoning it away after he got elected as Trump "playing both sides like any good businessman."

Reality doesn't matter to these fucks.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

"Dead girl or live boy" wouldn't even apply to Trump anymore. They would just dismiss it as fake news and the followers would believe it.

[-] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 4 points 2 days ago

It won't because it never had any effect when Mueller released his report that showed Trump & co colluded with Russia. People just took their partisan stances and claimed it was a rigged witch hunt.

[-] TheObviousSolution@lemm.ee 6 points 1 day ago

Basically, be so criminal and make a political career out of it that you are protected from a law that was never really supposed to handle outliers like you.

[-] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

What limp dicks the Justice department is when the criminal is white and right wing and ‘rich’

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