'Bad-faith crusade': Trump team demands block of Jack Smith's 'extrajudicial' final report

President-elect Donald Trump is making a last-ditch effort to prevent special counsel Jack Smith from releasing his final report into his criminal cases against Trump.

In a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland on Monday Trump's attorneys Todd Blanche and John Lauro asserted that courts in Florida and Washington, D.C. dismissed Smith's "failed cases."

"Rather than acknowledging, as he must, President Trump's complete exoneration, Smith now seeks to disseminate an extrajudicial...