Raskin slams Justice Department for not releasing Trump classified documents report
Source: MS NOW News
Mar. 29, 2026, 4:37 PM EDT
Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., on Sunday slammed the Department of Justice for not releasing former special counsel Jack Smith’s report on top secret documents that Trump took to his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida in 2021.
“It’s only this one that Trump and the DOJ have insisted upon staying secret, and they got Judge Eileen Cannon, who is, as you know, Donald Trump’s loyal flunky in Florida, to issue that order,” Raskin said during an interview with MS NOW’s “The Weekend,” noting that “every other special counsel report” going back to Ken Starr’s report on former President Bill Clinton has been released publicly.
Raskin, the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, revealed on Wednesday that he had obtained a memo from Smith’s investigation that said Trump possessed “classified documents pertinent to his business interests.”
As MS NOW reported on Friday, Smith suspected that Trump took hundreds of pages of classified documents after he left office in 2021 because they would help him financially. Ultimately, however, Smith and his team concluded they could not prove such a motive and decided that Trump somehow felt entitled to keep the records and because, as sources told MS NOW, they were “cool” to have.
Read more: https://www.ms.now/news/raskin-justice-trump-jack-smith-classified-documents
Link to tweet
@HouseJudiciary
🚨MAJOR BREAKING: Damning new documents from Special Counsel Jack Smith's investigation, obtained by @RepRaskin
and Judiciary Democrats, reveal:
- Trump stole classified documents to advance his "business interests"
- Trump showed a classified map to unnamed passengers on a private plane
- Trump stole documents so sensitive only six people in the entire U.S. government had access to them
- Prosecutors warned that some of the materials posed an "aggravated potential harm to national security"
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Carol Leonnig
@CarolLeonnig
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Mar 25
NEWWWW >> Trump appeared to have financial motive in taking classified records, a Jack Smith memo reviewed by @MSNOWNews shows. By early 2023, FBI found several records Trump took related to his business interests.
Me and @JaxAlemany
https://ms.now/news/trump-classified-documents-smith-investigation-business-motive
9:25 AM · Mar 25, 2026
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