Top Democrat has a plan to get Jack Smith's classified documents report on Trump

WASHINGTON—Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) plans to access the report of special counsel Jack Smith's classified documents before a new attorney general can dismiss the case.

Speaking to Raw Story on Thursday, Raskin said that Donald Trump will likely have his Justice Department "dismiss" the case against his aides Walt Nauta and Carlos de Oliveira "or pardon them."

"If we think that the existence of these two cases is an impediment to releasing the report, then dismiss the two cases," Raskin said.

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Smith submitted his final report to Attorney General Merrick Garland before he left office, but the classified documents case in Florida persists. Judge Aileen Cannon's dismissal is being appealed at the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals.

Trump could also order his DOJ to shred all documents related to the case.

"Those two cases are tangential and peripheral to the central matter of a president who pilfered classified government documents for some purpose still unknown to the public," Raskin explained.

He said that knowing what happened "is a matter of national importance."

"Underlings who help cover up an offense" are "trivial to a presidential crime like that," Raskin added.

The report can be released if Garland dismisses the case against them. The other alternative is for President Joe Biden to use his presidential immunity to release the report, which other leading Democratic lawmakers have encouraged.

Raskin said that in a democracy, Americans "have the right to information about our public officials and what they're doing, and people have a right to know about this seriously compromising situation involving classified documents."