Both the Justice Department and the judge who oversaw the case were asked to stop the public release of the report.

President-elect Donald Trump's lawyers asked U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland to block Jack Smith's "Final Report" on Trump. The post Trump Lawyers Ask Merrick Garland To Block Jack Smith’s ‘Final Report’ They Claim Contains ‘Discredited Accusations’ first appeared on Mediaite.

In the letter, Trump’s attorneys argued that releasing the report — a culmination of the evidence Smith gathered against the incoming president — would illegally interfere with the presidential transition.

Trump's attorneys asked Garland to withhold special counsel Jack Smith's final report from the public, arguing its release would be "imprudent and unlawful."

In the letter to Garland, Trump’s attorneys said that releasing a public narrative of the evidence Smith gathered — in the classified documents case as well as the federal election conspiracy case over Trump’s bid to subvert the 2020 election — would illegally interfere with the presidential transition and be little more than a political attack.

The special counsel has a last opportunity to make the case against the president-elect, whom he could never drag before a jury.

Lawyers for Donald Trump have asked the Department of Justice (DoJ) to not release a special counsel's report setting out its investigations into the US president-elect. Jack Smith led two probes into Trump,

Donald Trump is trying to block special counsel Jack Smith from publishing a final report on Smith's two failed prosecutions of the president-elect. Under Justice Department rules, the special counsel's office is required to provide a confidential report to Attorney General Merrick Garland,