President-elect Donald J. Trump believes he has been wronged by current and former officials, members of the media and more.

The Justice Department now enters a second Trump administration with less authority to pursue a president than it has had in half a century.

The report by the special counsel, David C. Weiss, criticized President Biden for making “baseless accusations” that threatened “the integrity of the justice system as a whole.”

Mr. Smith, a special counsel appointed by Attorney General Merrick B. Garland, had signaled that he would step down before Donald J. Trump’s inauguration.

The judges left in place a lower-court injunction that bars the disclosure of the report for three days, and the Justice Department then appealed it.

The president-elect’s defense lawyers accused the special counsel of unethical and improper behavior in his prosecutions of their client. They could be in senior Justice Department roles within weeks.

Both the Justice Department and the judge who oversaw the case were asked to stop the public release of the report.