(7 Jan 2025)
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Palm Beach, Florida – 7 January 2025
1. UPSOUND (English) Reporter asking question:
"We have some breaking news you may not be aware of this, but looks like Judge Cannon has blocked the DOJ from releasing the Smith report until further court proceedings. Can we get your thoughts on that?"
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Donald Trump, U.S. President-elect:
"Well, that’s a big story. So if I get it right, the the fake witchhunt started by the DOJ (Department of Justice) having to do with books and records. And Biden had many more and he wasn’t protected by the Presidential Records Act. I was. But all of that fake stuff that that took the lives of people, I mean, literally destroyed people. People are destroyed because of what they did. Destroyed. But we got to be president. But Biden did it for 40 years. He did it when he was a senator. That was illegal and they ruled it was illegal. How about that? They said it’s illegal, but he’s unfit to stand trial. So he can stand and be president of the United States. But the prosecutor found that he’s unfit for trial. I was going to use that as a major talking point, but he never got to use it because all of a sudden they had a new candidate who was also sort of unfit to stand trial. Right? But so what you’re saying is that the judge just blocked the … So Cannon (sic) was thrown off the case. They dropped their appeal because he had no case. They dropped all of that. The lawsuits against us. They lost the lawsuit. So this is a deranged Jack Smith. So, he dropped the lawsuits he was told to by the DOJ because they had no lawsuit. They lost in court in front of a very strong and a very brilliant judge. They lost in court. And that pertained to other cases in other courts. So he wanted to do a report just before I take office, probably. So he’ll do like a 500 page report and it’ll be a fake report, just like the investigation was a fake investigation. And I said, well, wait a minute. This guy was thrown off in disgrace, in disgrace. He’s going back to The Hague or wherever they’re going to send him in disgrace because he failed so badly because it was a fake case against a political opponent. They thought they were going to use this to beat me. So, what you’re saying is and I’m just hearing that, that they’re not allowed to issue the report. So if they’re not allowed to issue the report, that’s the way it should be. Because he was thrown off the case in disgrace. Why should he be allowed to write a fake report? It’ll only be a fake report. That’s great news. Good."
3. Cutaway reporters
STORYLINE:
A federal judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked the public release of special counsel Jack Smith’s report on investigations into Donald Trump as an appeals court weighs a challenge to the disclosure of a much-anticipated document just days before the president-elect reclaims office.
The ruling from U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon may represent a short-lived victory for Trump but it’s nonetheless the latest instance of the Trump-appointed jurist taking action in the Republican’s favor. The halt came in response to an emergency request Monday night by defense lawyers to block the release of a report that they said would be one-sided and prejudicial. Smith’s team is expected to respond later Tuesday.
Trump responded to Cannon’s order by complaining anew about Smith’s investigation and saying, “It was a fake case against a political opponent.”
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