Treating allegations as facts, Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin (D) led the charge in demanding the Justice Department further fuel their narrative against the president courtesy of Jack Smith.
As the peaceful transfer of power saw the keys to the White House handed back to President Donald Trump, U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon ruled against the release of the second volume of the former special counsel’s report. Now, as the cause to protect the GOP leader’s co-defendants in the classified documents case became moot, Raskin employed the weight of the House Judiciary Committee in calling for the report’s release “to understand how and why” Trump “mishandled our nation’s most sensitive classified information.”
Directed to acting Attorney General James McHenry, the preemptively pardoned Raskin raised the DOJ’s motion to dismiss their appeal, effectively calling for the end of the prosecution of Mar-a-Lago valet Walt Nauta and property manager Carlos de Oliviera.
“The Department’s fair rationale for not previously releasing Volume Two of Special Counsel Smith’s report was to avoid any prejudice to President Trump’s co-defendants while the criminal case against them was still ongoing,” stated the letter. “Once the court grants the Department’s motion to dismiss the case, that concern plainly becomes moot. Accordingly, the DOJ will have no conceivable basis upon which to continue withholding this essential report from the American people.”
Basing his claims on the bias of Smith, who had previously asserted with regard to allegations of election interference that “admissible evidence was sufficient to obtain and sustain a conviction at trial,” the letter referenced a review of court filings to contend, “this report is expected to not only outline the evidence supporting the 40 felony counts against President Trump–demonstrating his willful concealment and mishandling of extremely sensitive national defense information–but also explain why he retained and concealed these classified documents and what precisely he intended to do with them.”
Innocence until proven guilty was dismissed as the letter went on, “It is essential that the American people and Congress be given the means to understand how and why President Trump mishandled our nation’s most sensitive classified information.”
As Democratic congressmen also sought to exclude the president and his defense counsel, acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove, from having any say on the report’s release because they were listed as “interested parties,” Senate Democrats fired off their own Judiciary Committee letter on the Smith report in reference to the nomination hearing of Kash Patel for director of the FBI.
New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker alleged the report would expose whether or not Patel would lie for Trump, arguing, “It would be irresponsible for us to move forward if we do not know that the future head of the FIB would break the law and lie for the president of the United States.”
The House letter went on to cite White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt who said in part, “All of you once again have access to the most transparent and accessible president in American history.”
“Given that comparable reports on comparable subjects have been made public in the case of other presidents, we fully expect that, in keeping with this president’s proudly proclaimed preeminent commitment to transparency and accessibility, you will publicly release Volume Two of Special Counsel Smith’s report, in full and unredacted, as soon as the pending matter is dismissed,” the letter concluded.
At no point was it mentioned that the dismissal of the case against Trump resulted from Cannon’s ruling that Smith had been unconstitutionally appointed to prosecute the case.
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Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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