https://www.reuters.com/world/us-judge-permanently-blocks-release-report-trump-documents-case-2026-02-23/Feb 23 (Reuters) - A U.S. judge permanently barred the Justice Department on Monday from releasing a prosecutor's report on the criminal case accusing President Donald Trump of unlawfully retaining classified documents following his first term in office.Florida-based U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon found that releasing the report would be a "manifest injustice" to the Republican president and two former associates who were charged alongside him because it would detail substantial allegations of criminal wrongdoing in a case that never reached a jury.Cannon, who Trump appointed to the bench in 2020, dismissed all the charges in 2024.Trump was accused in the case pursued by Special Counsel Jack Smith of illegally storing documents related to U.S. national defense, including the American nuclear program, at his Mar-a-Lago social club and obstructing U.S. government efforts to retrieve the material. Cannon found that Smith had not been lawfully appointed by the Justice Department during Democratic former President Joe Biden's administration.Disclosure of Smith's report "would contravene basic notions of fairness and justice in the process, where no adjudication of guilt has been reached following initiation of criminal charges," Cannon wrote in Monday's ruling.The order means substantial information about one of the four criminal cases Trump faced in his years out of office may not be disclosed to the public.
>>1491446>Disclosure of Smith's report "would contravene basic notions of fairness and justice in the process, where no adjudication of guilt has been reached following initiation of criminal charges,"The findings where Smith testified he had absolute proof Trump was guilty? Not a surprise
>>1491446"drain the swamp" am I right guys?
>>1491446Smith's biggest mistake was not getting Cannon thrown off the case when she's clearly corrupt as hell.This is more proof.
>>1491456The swamp is filled with Karen-esque complainy bitches.>Muh classified dickcumments!>gRumpf already seen themWho the fuck cares, Karen?
>>1491492>Smith's biggest mistake was not getting Cannon thrown off the case when she's clearly corrupt as hell.Getting a judge thrown off a case is hard as fuck unfortunately. Even with Canon's obvious bias, that wouldn't be enough evidence for an appellate court. Judges give other judges the benefit of the doubt to protect themselves from the same systems of review.His biggest mistake was filing the case in Florida even though that was technically the most proper venue because most of the elements of the crimes occurred there. Unfortunately, he is an honest man.
>>1491557Once it was clear she had her thumb on the scale early on, he should have demanded a change in venue. At least he wouldn't have resulted in yet another obvious cover up of trump's crimes.
>>1491446>You can't release the evidence that proves the accused is guilty, it might influence the jury into giving a guilty verdict and that's just not fair!
>>1491446why even pretend anymore man
>>1491446Fuck the law, release them anyway.
