The report calls Trump's claims that the special counsel was influenced by Biden for political reasons "laughable."

Special counsel Jack Smith, in his final report on his Jan. 6 investigation into Donald Trump, says Trump used "intimidation and harassment" to stymie his probe.

The Justice Department has asked a federal appeals court to move swiftly in reversing a judge’s order that had blocked the agency from releasing any part of special counsel Jack Smith’s investigative report on Donald Trump.

Jack Smith’s ‘Secret’ Vendetta Special Prosecutor Jack Smith claims “he could have convicted Trump had Trump not won the presidency,” but he could hardly say he’d “spent all that time and money, and stirred up the country so much,

The Justice Department now enters a second Trump administration with less authority to pursue a president than it has had in half a century.

The Supreme Court's decision on presidential immunity made Jack Smith's prosecution of Trump much more difficult.

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The decision by Judge Aileen M. Cannon not to issue an immediate ruling raised the possibility that President-elect Donald J. Trump would take office in the meantime and have power over the report’s release.

So far this year, the most consequential publisher in America is the United States government. In the wee hours of Tuesday morning, the Justice Department posted online a grim PDF with a title that defies all marketing advice: “Final Report of the Special Counsel Under 28 C.F.R. § 600.8.”

"It is not enough in life that one succeed," the droll economist John Kenneth Galbraith is supposed to have said. "Others must fail."

As far as I am aware, with the release of Jack Smith’s report on Trump’s criminal culpability for the events of Jan. 6, 2021, Trump is the first person in American history to be investigated by two separate special counsels.