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.”
In desperate situations, things get leaked.
This was a desperate situation.
It should have been leaked.
I feel like it still can be. Even if it isn’t released before the inauguration, it would be great if it wound up on something similar to (and less bootlicky than) Wikileaks.
What difference would it make?
Honest grown-up reason is for history’s sake. Today’s answer is we have to chip away at him. I’ve seen a lot of threads asking former Trump voters what he did that crossed a line for them. Keep highlighting the shit he does and people will see it. It’s not the only angle of attack, but it shouldn’t be ignored.
Plus, if you remember his first term, leaks drive him up the wall (leading home to say/do more dumb shit people will hear/see). I think that’s reason enough to wait for him to be in office to leak it. Someone should anonymously send it to a respected foreign news source like Le Monde or Die Welt. Once it’s published, sources like AP and Reuters have to pick it up.
Die Welt is not or should not be respected. It belongs to Axel Springer SE, a European media corporation comparable in both reach and tone to Fox News Media in the United States.
Die Welt’s latest controversy –one among many– saw them publish an opinion piece by Elon Musk endorsing the AfD, which further legitimized the party and weakened the already debilitating cordon sanitaire around it.
In the German-speaking world, Die Welt is mocked as the “wannabe’s Bild”. Bild is a tabloid published by the same company that constantly engages in both misinformation and disinformation. Although Die Welt isn’t as blatant as its tabloid sibling, it still pushes a disingenuous narrative and should be avoided.
TBH, I pulled 2 foreign papers straight out of my butt. My point still stands: if a foreign paper, preferably in a country with strong press protections, publishes it there’s not much Trump can do beyond search for the original leaker (which would happen anyway).
Yes, it does, and I agree with it. I should have stated as much in my comment. I didn’t because I generally prefer upvotes to “well argued” or “I agree”.
I don’t disagree for history’s sake, but don’t expect it to make a damn bit of difference.
It might not make an immediate difference, but it’s a huge loss if this report never sees the light of day. It’s another tetrapod on the beach of reality. The sea of disinformation is at high tide at the moment, but maybe eventually the tide ebbs, and everything we can do to prevent erosion helps.
I welcome anything to help avoid us becoming another Russia and succumb to the nihilism of cynical hypernormalization.
Like what’s been going on for the last decade at least? That worked so well.
I don’t think anything short of conviction would have made a difference in the election.
Several witnesses from the documents case came forward with horribly incriminating firsthand accounts of the crimes. Even when the stories reached his supporters, they just dismissed or defended against them.