The public could learn of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s findings on President-elect Donald Trump’s alleged efforts to undo his loss in the 2020 election, just days before the 45th President is scheduled to become the 47th.

In court filings on Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Justice indicated that it would release its report on Trump’s alleged election interference, but that it would withhold the final report on the alleged mishandling of classified documents.

The DOJ said they will offer the details of Special Prosecutor Jack Smith’s investigation in the classified documents case only to certain members of Congress.

The DOJ made the disclosure as part of a case seeking to dismiss Trump’s request to keep Smith’s entire investigation under wraps.

“This limited disclosure will further the public interest in keeping congressional leadership apprised of a significant matter within the Department while safeguarding defendants’ interests,” the filing said.

The filing comes after U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon temporarily blocked the release of the full report on the basis of the involvement of other defendants involved in the documents case.

But the DOJ argued there is “neither any need nor legal basis for an injunction” to stop them, as Attorney General Merrick Garland only intends to release the parts dealing with Trump.

“The Attorney General intends to release Volume One to Congress and the public consistent with 28 C.F.R. § 600.9(c) and in furtherance of the public interest in informing a co-equal branch and the public regarding this significant matter,” Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Brian Boynton wrote.

The first volume of his report details how Smith arrived at charges in the “election case,” while the second “concerns the criminal investigation, indictments, and proceedings in the Southern District of Florida” against Waltine Nauta and Carlos De Oliveira, a pair of Trump associates. Charges brought against Trump in the second case were dismissed in July, and Smith abandoned all of his investigations into the President-elect shortly after his election victory.

Charges against Nauta and De Oliveria were not dropped, and the pair sought to block the release of both reports.

The DOJ acknowledged that while Nauta and De Oliveria’s cases are ongoing, and it will confine release of Volume Two to just “the Chairmen and Ranking Members of the House and Senate Judiciary Committees upon their request and agreement not to release any information from Volume Two publicly.”

Volume One, the DOJ told the court, doesn’t have anything to do with Nauta or De Oliveria and their arguments for keeping it from the public “are without merit.”

“There is no basis for defendants or anyone else to seek to bar the Attorney General from disclosing Volume One publicly (or to Congress) or from disclosing Volume Two to select members of Congress in the manner described above,” they wrote.

Trump, who has denied all allegations of impropriety, on Tuesday said the Smith’s Final Report will be “a fake report just like it was a fake investigation.”

In a letter made public Monday, Trump’s lawyer and the incoming deputy attorney general, Todd Blanche, urged Garland to keep the report secret and leave the matter up to Trump’s Justice Department, while calling on Smith to be removed from his position immediately.

“Release of any confidential report prepared by this out-of-control private citizen unconstitutionally posing as a prosecutor would be nothing more than a lawless political stunt, designed to politically harm President Trump and justify the huge sums of taxpayer money Smith unconstitutionally spent on his failed and dismissed cases,” Blanche wrote.

DOJ rules require special counsels to submit a final report at the end of their investigations, but leaves public disclosure up to the Attorney General. Since his appointment, Garland has released the full reports produced by special counsels working under his authority, including a report by Special Counsel John Durham over an FBI investigation into Russian election interference, and a report by Special Counsel Robert Hur on President Joe Biden’s alleged mishandling of classified information.

Herald wire service contributed.

Special counsel Jack Smith (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
President-elect Donald Trump (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)