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."

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.

Attorney General Merrick Garland has indicated he would make public any special counsel report — with the necessary redactions — that reaches his desk.

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

Lawyers for Trump and his former co-defendants take action to shut down report on probe into classified documents cache and election interference

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.

Lawyers for Donald Trump have reviewed a draft of special counsel Jack Smith’s final report related to federal investigations into the president-elect and are threatening legal action if he releases it,

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.

Trump's lawyers demand Merrick Garland block Smith's final report release before the January 20 inauguration, citing transition interference.

President-elect Donald Trump is opposing the release of Justice Department Special Counsel Jack Smith’s final report, which his lawyers say accuses Trump of engaging “in an unprecedented criminal effort,