<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A federal judge slapped down former special counsel Jack Smith from releasing a report on President Donald Trump’s alleged mishandling of classified documents after leaving office in January 2021. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, who was appointed by Trump, wrote in a Monday </span><a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.648654/gov.uscourts.flsd.648654.779.0.pdf"><span style="font-weight: 400;">ruling</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> that releasing the report would violate principles of fairness and justice. She said Smith undertook a “brazen” strategy by compiling the document even after she dismissed the classified document charges against Trump. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Cannon wrote that releasing the report “would cause irreparable damage to former defendants from disclosure of non-public discovery material implicating still-contested grand jury and privilege concerns; and it would contravene basic notions of fairness and justice in the process, where no adjudication of guilt has been reached following initiation of criminal charges.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Cannon </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/judge-dismisses-trump-classified-documents-case"><span style="font-weight: 400;">dismissed </span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">the charges against Trump in July 2024, ruling that Smith’s appointment violated the Constitution&#8217;s Appointments Clause and that his office was not properly authorized. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Despite her dismissal order, Cannon noted that Smith continued investigating Trump and compiling a report that was intended for release to congressional lawmakers.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Cannon wrote that, instead of seeking a stay or clarification of her order, Smith and his team “chose to circumvent it, for months, by taking the discovery generated in this case and compiling it in a final report for transmission to then-Attorney General Garland, to Congress, and then beyond.” </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“The Court need not countenance this brazen stratagem or effectively perpetuate the Special Counsel’s breach of this Court’s own order,” she added.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Cannon said releasing the report would deny Trump and his co-defendants a meaningful opportunity to respond to the allegations. Smith, however, has <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/trump-appointee-aileen-cannon-blocks-release-jack-smiths-report-classi-rcna260237">claimed</a> that he obtained “powerful evidence that showed Trump willfully retained highly classified documents” after leaving office in January 2021. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Cannon wrote that the court &#8220;strains to find a situation in which a former special counsel has released a report after initiating criminal charges that did not result in a finding of guilt,&#8221; particularly where &#8220;the defendants contested the charges from the outset and still proclaim their innocence.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Last month, Smith faced questions from lawmakers about his investigations into Trump. He also brought charges against Trump related to the January 6 Capitol riot, which were later dismissed after Trump&#8217;s election and before he returned to office in January 2025.</span></p>

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