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Trump's legal troubles barrel toward a conclusion
THE INVESTIGATIONS AND PROSECUTIONS of President-elect Trump are speeding to an end less than two weeks before his inauguration for a second term in the White House.
Trump’s legal woes are winding down due to his election victory in November and the Supreme Court’s presidential immunity ruling from last year.
The legal battles over what can be made public and whether Trump should face sentencing for his convictions are coming to a head in the final days of President Biden’s administration.
HERE'S THE LATEST:
• Attorney General Merrick Garland plans to release special counsel Jack Smith’s report detailing Trump’s plans to subvert the transfer of power after his election loss to Biden in the 2020 election.
U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon temporarily blocked the release of the report Tuesday, but the Department of Justice (DOJ) notified the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals that it intends to move ahead with the release.
Cannon dismissed the case in July, determining that Smith had been improperly appointed.
Smith appealed Cannon’s ruling but later dropped the appeal after Trump’s victory because sitting presidents cannot be prosecuted.
• Garland will not release Smith’s report on the investigation into Trump for mishandling classified documents, saying it would be inappropriate at this time because two of Trump’s allies, Walt Nauta and Carlos de Oliveira, still face criminal proceedings.
Trump’s incoming DOJ is expected to drop the charges against the two men.
Top members of the House and Senate Judiciary committees will have access to the classified documents report.
• Trump made an emergency appeal to the Supreme Court Wednesday ahead of his scheduled sentencing Friday in Manhattan on the 34 felony counts of falsifying business records.
Trump’s lawyers are seeking to prevent the sentencing from moving ahead, arguing that he has presidential immunity.
“Forcing President Trump to prepare for a criminal sentencing in a felony case while he is preparing to lead the free world as President of the United States in less than two weeks imposes an intolerable, unconstitutional burden on him that undermines these vital national interests,” Trump’s lawyers wrote.
WORLD REACTS TO TRUMP'S EXPANSION TALK:
Trump's talk of expanding the United States is drawing blowback from world leaders:
Canada
Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre, who hopes to succeed Prime Minister Justin Trudeau once he resigns, blasted the idea that Canada could become the 51st state.
“Canada will never be the 51st state. Period. We are a great and independent country,” Poilievre wrote on X.
New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman suspects that Trump’s talk of making Canada the 51st state is “much more of a troll,” designed to win him leverage in a tariffs war and humiliate Trudeau, whose political party is in crisis.
Greenland
Denmark says Greenland is not for sale after Trump repeatedly pushed the idea that he intends to purchase the territory — or........
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