After the special counsel report is released at midnight, Trump labels Jack Smith as 'desperate'.

Trump took another dig at Jack Smith after the Justice Department released his report early Tuesday.

On Tuesday at midnight, Attorney General Merrick Garland made public the first volume of Smith's report on the election case against Trump. Despite the original hold on Volume One expiring, the release of the report sparked a heated response from Trump.

"Deranged Jack Smith's desperation is evident through the release of his Fake findings at 1:00 A.M. in the morning. Did he claim that the Unselect Committee illegally destroyed and deleted all evidence?" Trump posted on Truth Social.

Trump rejected Smith's report, arguing that it was derived from data collected by the House Jan. 6 select committee, which was established in July 2021 to probe the U.S. Capitol breach in January 2021 by Trump supporters who rioted prior to President Biden's inauguration on January 20. The committee's investigation was conducted while Democrats controlled the House and all its members were appointed by then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.

Trump again asserted that Smith, who resigned recently, followed Biden's instructions to pursue legal action against Trump's political adversaries.

"Before the Election, Jack, a lamebrain prosecutor, was unable to get his case tried, resulting in my landslide victory," Trump wrote.

In a letter to Garland last week, Smith found it amusing that Trump claimed the Biden administration or other political actors influenced or directed his decisions as a prosecutor, asserting that he was driven by the Principles of Federal Prosecution.

Smith stated that Trump's cases were the most flagrant, with the greatest public harm and the most certain proof, according to the principles.

Smith stated in the lengthy report that his office fully supports the decision to prosecute Trump for criminal charges because he engaged in a series of illegal tactics to maintain power after losing the 2020 election.

In his conclusion, Smith stated that the parties were debating whether any content in the "superseding indictment" was protected by presidential immunity. However, once it became clear that Trump had won the 2024 election, the department decided to dismiss the case because of its interpretation of the Constitution.

The report stated that the Department's stance that the Constitution prohibits the continued indictment and prosecution of a President is absolute and does not depend on the seriousness of the charges, the strength of the government's evidence, or the merits of the prosecution, which the Office fully supports.

In November 2022, Jack Smith was appointed as special counsel by Garland, who was previously a Justice Department official.

Smith, a former assistant U.S. attorney and head of the DOJ's public integrity section, led an investigation into whether Trump obstructed the federal government's investigation into his retention of classified documents after leaving the White House.

Smith was also assigned to supervise the probe into whether Trump or other officials and organizations meddled with the peaceful transition of power after the 2020 presidential election, including the certification of the Electoral College vote on January 6, 2021.

Smith charged Trump in both cases, but Trump pleaded not guilty.

In July 2024, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida Judge Aileen Cannon dismissed the classified records case, ruling that Smith's appointment as special counsel was unlawful.

Smith filed a lawsuit against Trump in the U.S. District Court for Washington D.C. in his 2020 election case, but after Trump won the election, Smith attempted to dismiss the case. Judge Tanya Chutkan granted the request to dismiss the case.

This report was contributed to by Brooke Singman, Emma Colton, and Julia Johnson of Planet Chronicle Digital.