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Trumpworld’s New Year’s hangover: the fight over Jack Smith’s report starts with a built-in disaster
The Justice Department moved on January 5 toward releasing part of special counsel Jack Smith’s findings while trying to keep the rest under wraps, teeing up a new fight over what the public gets to see from the Trump investigation. The maneuver kept alive the very questions Trump allies hoped would go away after the election. Instead, it made clear the incoming administration would be starting its term with the same old reflexes: conceal, contest, and blame the referees.