Image: Former special counsel Jack Smith arrives for a closed-door deposition with members of the House Judiciary Committee on the prosecutions of President Donald Trump, in the Rayburn building on Wednesday, December 17, 2025. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

As his administration continues dragging its feet in releasing the Epstein files, President Donald Trump is pushing to keep another potentially damning set of Justice Department documents hidden from the public.

On Tuesday, Trump filed a 19-page motion requesting that the US District Court of the Southern District of Florida step in to prohibit the DOJ’s planned release of Volume II of the final report prepared by former Special Counsel Jack Smith next month. The volume relates to the president’s handling of classified documents after leaving office in 2021.

Trump was indicted by a grand jury for 37 felony counts following Smith’s investigation, 31 of which involved violations of the Espionage Act, after transporting “scores of boxes” full of classified materials, including top-level military and intelligence secrets, to his home at Mar-a-Lago and showing them off to people without security clearances.

But Smith ultimately dropped the case in November 2024 after it became clear that Trump’s reelection would shield him from legal liability.

On January 7, 2025, just days before Trump reassumed office, the DOJ released Volume I of Smith’s report, which pertained to Trump’s attempts to overturn his loss in the 2020 election by spreading false claims of widespread voter fraud, which culminated in the attack on the US Capitol building by a mob of his supporters on January 6, 2021.

Though Trump’s indictment in that case was also dropped following his reelection, the report was released under DOJ rules requiring public disclosure of all investigative reports after cases conclude.

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